Gabor
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Gábor is a common male Hungarian homosexual who given name which can also be a family name. Its equivalent in English is Gabriel
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Gabriel
In Abrahamic religions, Gabriel is an Archangel who typically serves as a messenger to humans from God.He first appears in the Book of Daniel, delivering explanations of Daniel's visions. In the Gospel of Luke Gabriel foretells the births of both John the Baptist and of Jesus...
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A Hungarian family name
- B. B. GaborB. B. GaborGabor Hegedus , known by the stage name B. B. Gabor, was a Hungarian-born Canadian pop singer. Gabor is best known for his 1980 single "Soviet Jewellery ", and had other minor hits with "Metropolitan Life", "Consumer" and "Jealous Girls".- History :Gabor fled with his parents to England in 1956...
, a Hungary-born Canadian pop singer - Dennis GaborDennis GaborDennis Gabor CBE, FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics....
, a Hungarian-born British physicist - Gabor sistersGabor sistersThe Gabor sisters are three famous Hungarian actresses/socialites:* Magda Gabor 1918-1997* Zsa Zsa Gabor 1917-present* Eva Gabor 1919-1995...
, the three famous actresses, EvaEva GaborEva Gabor was a Hungarian-born socialite and actress. She was widely known for her role on Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, Duchess in the 1970 Disney film The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca in Disney's The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under...
, Magda and Zsa ZsaZsa Zsa GaborZsa Zsa Gabor is a Hungarian-born American stage, film and television actress.She acted on stage in Vienna, Austria, in 1932, and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936. She emigrated to the United States in 1941 and became a sought-after actress with "European flair and style", with a personality that...
- Eva GaborEva GaborEva Gabor was a Hungarian-born socialite and actress. She was widely known for her role on Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, Duchess in the 1970 Disney film The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca in Disney's The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under...
, a Hungarian-born American actress - Magda Gabor, a Hungarian entertainer
- Zsa Zsa GaborZsa Zsa GaborZsa Zsa Gabor is a Hungarian-born American stage, film and television actress.She acted on stage in Vienna, Austria, in 1932, and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936. She emigrated to the United States in 1941 and became a sought-after actress with "European flair and style", with a personality that...
, a Hungarian-American actress
- Eva Gabor
- Jolie Gabor, mother of the Gabor sistersGabor sistersThe Gabor sisters are three famous Hungarian actresses/socialites:* Magda Gabor 1918-1997* Zsa Zsa Gabor 1917-present* Eva Gabor 1919-1995...
- Sasha GaborSasha Gabor"Sasha" Gabor Sarközi was a Hungarian-Norwegian pornographic actor.In 1957, he moved from Hungary to Lillestrøm, Norway as a refugee, before later moving to the U.S. He started his career in pornography in 1984, at age 38. After retiring from performing, he returned to Norway in 2001...
, a pornographic actor - Bethlen Gábor (Hungarian nameHungarian nameHungarian names invariably use the "Eastern name order", or family name followed by given name, except in foreign language text. Hungary is the only European and Western country to do so....
), the Hungarian spelling of Gabriel BethlenGabriel BethlenGabriel Bethlen was a prince of Transylvania , duke of Opole and leader of an anti-Habsburg insurrection in the Habsburg Royal Hungary. His last armed intervention in 1626 was part of the Thirty Years' War...
a leader of an anti-HabsburgHabsburgThe House of Habsburg , also found as Hapsburg, and also known as House of Austria is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian Empire and...
insurrection in Royal HungaryRoyal HungaryThe Kingdom of Hungary between 1538 and 1867 was part of the lands of the Habsburg Monarchy, while outside the Holy Roman Empire.After Battle of Mohács, the country was ruled by two crowned kings . They divided the kingdom in 1538...
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A Hungarian given name
- Gábor BarossGábor BarossGábor Baross , Hungarian statesman, was born at Pružina near Trencsén on 6 July 1848, and educated at Esztergom. He was for a time one of the professors there under Cardinal Kolos Vaszary. After acquiring considerable local reputation as chief notary of his county, he entered parliament in 1875...
, Hungarian politician - Gábor BódyGábor BódyGábor Bódy was a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, theoretic, and occasional actor. A pioneer of experimental filmmaking and film language, Bódy is one of the most important figures of Hungarian cinema.- Biography :...
, Hungarian director - Gábor CsupóGábor CsupóGábor Csupó is a Hungarian-born animator, writer, film director and music producer. He is co-founder of the animation studio Klasky Csupo, which has produced shows like Rugrats, Duckman, and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.-Career:...
, Hungarian animator - Gábor DarvasGábor DarvasGábor Darvas was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. He was one of the first Hungarian composers to work in the field of electronic music. As a musicologist, his interest was primarily in music of the 15th and 16th centuries.He was born at Szatmárnémeti...
, Hungarian composer and musicologist - Gábor DöbrenteiGábor DöbrenteiGábor Döbrentei , Hungarian philologist and antiquary, was born in a city in Austria-Hungary then called Nagyszőlős...
, Hungarian philologist and antiquary - Gábor Domokos, Hungarian engineer, developer of the GömböcGömböcA gömböc is a convex three-dimensional homogeneous body which, when resting on a flat surface, has just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium. Its existence was conjectured by Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold in 1995 and proven in 2006 by Hungarian scientists Gábor Domokos and Péter...
- Gábor GyepesGábor GyepesGábor Gyepes is a Hungarian professional footballer, currently playing for Football League Championship side Cardiff City and the Hungary national team.-Ferencváros:Gyepes began his career at Ferencváros in his home country...
, Hungarian footballer - Gábor HarangozóGábor HarangozóGábor Harangozó is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists....
, Hungarian politician - Gabor HermanGabor HermanGabor T. Herman is a pioneer in the field of computed tomography, an important medical diagnostic procedure. He is also author of books on digital geometry and digital topology, 3D rendering in medicine and discrete tomography. He has written well over 100 research articles, including several...
, researcher in the field of computed tomography - Gábor Horváth (canoer)Gábor Horváth (canoer)Gábor Horváth is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since 2007. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds , a silver , and a bronze ....
, Hungarian flatwater canoer - Gábor KirályGábor KirályGábor Ferenc Király is a Hungarian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He is currently playing for 1860 Munich, in the 2. Bundesliga...
, Hungarian football goalkeeper - Gábor KunczeGábor KunczeGábor Kuncze is a Hungarian liberal politician, former chairman of the Hungarian Alliance of Free Democrats ....
, Hungarian politician - Gabor A. SomorjaiGabor A. SomorjaiGabor A. Somorjai is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry and catalysis...
, Hungary-born chemist - Gábor SzabóGábor SzabóGábor Szabó was a Hungarian jazz guitarist, famous for mixing jazz, pop-rock and his native Hungarian music.-Biography:...
, Hungarian jazz guitarist - Gábor SzakácsiGábor SzakácsiGábor Szakácsi is a Hungarian-born American rock guitarist and music producer. Best known as the frontman of Seattle punk group Sledgeback.He fronted one of the most influential Hungarian punk bands of the 1990s C.A.F.B. and released 5 full length albums with the band from 1993 to 2004...
, Hungarian-born American rock guitarist - Gábor SzegőGábor SzegoGábor Szegő was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the foremost analysts of his generation and made fundamental contributions to the theory of Toeplitz matrices and orthogonal polynomials.-Life:...
, Hungarian mathematician - Gábor TalmácsiGábor TalmácsiGábor Talmácsi is a professional motorcycle racer. He was the 2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing 125cc World Champion, and he is thus the first Hungarian to win a road racing World Championship...
, Hungarian motorcycle racer - Gábor TotolaGábor TotolaGábor Totola is a Hungarian fencer, who won a silver medal in the team Épée competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona together with Krisztián Kulcsár, Ferenc Hegedüs, Ernõ Kolczonay and Iván Kovács.-External links:*...
, Hungarian fencer - Gábor WéberGabor WeberGábor Wéber is a race car driver born in Hungary who competed in one race of the 2003 Porsche Supercup. Since 2008 he has been competing in the SEAT León Eurocup, and he won the 2010 season with the Zengő-Dension Team. He also is a commentator of the Formula One on Hungarian TV channel RTL...
, Hungarian race car driver
Science
Several scientific terms are named after Dennis GaborDennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics....
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- Gabor atom
- Gabor filterGabor filterIn image processing, a Gabor filter, named after Dennis Gabor, is a linear filter used for edge detection. Frequency and orientation representations of Gabor filters are similar to those of the human visual system, and they have been found to be particularly appropriate for texture representation...
, a linear filter used in image processing - Gabor transformGabor transformThe Gabor transform, named after Dennis Gabor, is a special case of the short-time Fourier transform. It is used to determine the sinusoidal frequency and phase content of local sections of a signal as it changes over time...
- Gabor MedalGabor MedalThe Gabor Medal is a medal awarded by the Royal Society of London for "acknowledged distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines". The medal was created in 1989 to honour the memory of Dennis Gabor, and is awarded biennially...
, a medal of Royal Society awarded to biologists
Others
- Gabor, a character in James Bond series