This is a list of Hungarian Jews. There has been a Jewish presence in today's Hungary since Roman times

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

 (bar a brief expulsion during the Black Death

Black Death

The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. Of several competing theories, the dominant explanation for the Black Death is the plague theory, which attributes the outbreak to the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Thought to have...

), long before the actual Hungarian nation. Jews fared particularly well under the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

, and after emancipation

Jewish Emancipation

Jewish emancipation was the external and internal process of freeing the Jewish people of Europe, including recognition of their rights as equal citizens, and the formal granting of citizenship as individuals; it occurred gradually between the late 18th century and the early 20th century...

 in 1867. At its height, the Jewish population of historical Hungary numbered more than 900,000, but the Holocaust

The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...

 and emigration

Emigration

Emigration is the act of leaving one's country or region to settle in another. It is the same as immigration but from the perspective of the country of origin. Human movement before the establishment of political boundaries or within one state is termed migration. There are many reasons why people...

, especially during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

1956 Hungarian Revolution

The Hungarian Revolution or Uprising of 1956 was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956....

, has reduced that to around 100,000, most of whom live in Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

 and its suburbs.

This is a list of anyone who could be reliably described as "Hungarian" and is of significant Jewish heritage (ethnic or religious). See List of Hungarian Americans for descendents of Hungarian émigrés born in America, a significant number of whom are of Jewish ancestry.

Please note the names are presented in the Western European convention of the given name preceding the family name, whereas in Hungary, the reverse is true, as in most Asian cultres.

Historical figures

• György Aczél
  György Aczél
  György Aczél , Hungarian communist politician, member of the Political Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ....
  
  , official in charge of cultural life in Kádár's Hungary, 1957-1988
• Leó Frankel
  Leó Frankel
  Leó Frankel was a Communist revolutionary of Hungarian and Jewish origin.- Life :He was born in 1844, in Óbuda...
  
  , one of the leaders of the Paris Commune
• Nissim Cahn, co-founder of the Jewish Brotherhood
• Gyula Germanus
  Gyula Germanus
  Gyula Germanus , alias Julius Abdulkerim Germanus, was a professor of oriental studies, a Hungarian writer and islamologist of Jewish origin, member of the Hungarian Parliament and member of multiple Arabic academics of sciences, who made significant contributions to the Arabic language science,...
  
  , islamologist, (non-Jewish mother, Jewish father)
• Ignác Goldziher, islamologist
• Tivadar Herzl (Theodore Herzl), spiritual founder of Israel
• Béla Kun
  Béla Kun
  Béla Kun , born Béla Kohn, was a Hungarian Communist politician and a Bolshevik Revolutionary who led the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919.- Early life :...
  
  , de facto leader of Hungary for 4 months in 1919 (non-Jewish mother, Jewish father)
• Max Nordau
  Max Nordau
  Max Simon Nordau , born Simon Maximilian Südfeld in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic....
  
  , co-founder of the World Zionist Organization
• Tom Lantos
  Tom Lantos
  Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until his death, representing the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of southwest San Francisco...
  
  
• György Lukács
• Trebitsch Lincoln
  Trebitsch Lincoln
  Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln a Hungarian Jewish adventurer who spent parts of his life as a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British Member of Parliament for Darlington, German right-wing politician and spy, and Buddhist abbot in China....
  
  , British adventurer http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/040620_Trebisch.html
• Georges Politzer
  Georges Politzer
  Georges Politzer was a French philosopher and Marxist theoretician of Hungarian origin, affectionately referred to by some as the "red-headed philosopher" . He was a native of Oradea, a city in present-day Romania.-Biography:Politzer was already a militant by the time of his involvement in the...
  
  
• Joseph Pulitzer
  Joseph Pulitzer
  Joseph Pulitzer April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911), born Politzer József, was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s and became a leading...
  
  , newspaper publisher
• Sándor Radó (Alexander Radó
  Alexander Rado
  Alexander Radó, born as Sándor Radó and also known as Alexander Radolfi , was a Hungarian cartographer and a Soviet military intelligence agent in World War II.-Life:...
  
  ) Switzerland-based Soviet master spy in World War II
• Mátyás Rákosi
  Mátyás Rákosi
  Mátyás Rákosi was a Hungarian communist politician. He was born as Mátyás Rosenfeld, in present-day Serbia...
  
  , de facto leader of Hungary, 1947-1956
• Ervin Szabó director of the Budapest Public Library System, 1911-1918
• Tibor Szamuely
  Tibor Szamuely
  Tibor Szamuely was a Hungarian Communist leader.Born in Nyíregyháza, a city in the Northeast of Hungary, Szamuely was the oldest son of five children of a Jewish family. After completing his university studies, he became a journalist...
  
  , politician http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/maj/maj06.htm
• Ármin Vámbéry
  Ármin Vámbéry
  Ármin Vámbéry, Arminius Vámbéry born Hermann Bamberger, or Bamberger Ármin , was a Hungarian orientalist and traveler...
  
  , orientalist and traveler
• Vilmos Vázsonyi, first Jewish Justice minster of Hungary, 1917-1918

Religious Figures

See Hungarian-Jewish Religious Figures

Inventors, Scientists

• László Bíró
  László Bíró
  László József Bíró was the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen.Bíró was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1899. He presented the first production of the ball pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931...
  
  , inventor of the ballpoint pen.
• Dennis Gabor
  Dennis 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....
  
  , inventor of the holography.
• David Gestetner
  David Gestetner
  David Gestetner was the inventor of the Gestetner stencil duplicator, the first piece of office equipment that allowed production of numerous copies of documents quickly and inexpensively. He was awarded the John Scott Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1888...
  
  , inventor of the stencil duplicator
• Peter Carl Goldmark
  Peter Carl Goldmark
  Peter Carl Goldmark was a German-Hungarian engineer who, during his time with Columbia Records, was instrumental in developing the long-playing microgroove 33-1/3 rpm vinyl phonograph disc, the standard for incorporating multiple or lengthy recorded works on a single disc for two generations...
  
  , inventor of long-playing (LP) records
• András Gróf (Andrew Grove
  Andrew Grove
  Andrew Stephen Grove , is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American Businessman/ Engineer, Author & a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the U.S., where he finished his education...
  
  ), pioneer of the semiconductor industry, CEO of Intel
• Rudolf E. Kálmán of Kalman filter
  Kalman filter
  In statistics, the Kalman filter is a mathematical method named after Rudolf E. Kálmán. Its purpose is to use measurements observed over time, containing noise and other inaccuracies, and produce values that tend to be closer to the true values of the measurements and their associated calculated...
  
  
• David Schwarz
  David Schwarz (aviation inventor)
  David Schwarz was a Hungarian aviation pioneer of Jewish descent.Schwarz created the first flyable rigid airship. It was also the first airship with an external hull made entirely of metal. He died before he could see it finally fly...
  
  , inventor of the Zeppelin
  Zeppelin
  A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century. It was based on designs he had outlined in 1874 and detailed in 1893. His plans were reviewed by committee in 1894 and patented in the United States on 14 March 1899...
  
  
• Charles Weissmann
  Charles Weissmann
  Charles Weissmann is a Hungarian-born Swiss molecular biologist.Weissmann went to Zurich University and obtained his MD in 1956 and Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry in 1961. Weissmann was director of the Institute for Molecular Biology in Zurich, President of the Roche Research Foundation and...
  
  , biochemist
• Eugene Wigner (Wigner Jenő), physicist; Nobel laureate

Nobel Prize Winners

Seven out of the ten Nobel prize winners who were born in Hungary were Jewish. This number does not include
Robert Bárány, who was born in Vienna, John Polanyi, who was born in Berlin, while Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, belonging to Romania after the first world war. Avram Hershko was born in Karcag, Hungary, while
the remaining six Nobel prize winners on the list were born in Budapest.

• Robert Bárány
  Robert Bárány
  Robert Bárány was a Austro-Hungarian otologist. For his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus of the ear he received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.- Biography :...
  
    (1914) - Medicine;
• György Hevesy (George de Hevesy
  George de Hevesy
  George Charles de Hevesy, Georg Karl von Hevesy, was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals.- Early years :Hevesy György was born in Budapest,...
  
  ) (1943) - Chemistry;
• Jenő Wigner (Eugene Wigner)) (1963) - Physics;
• Dénes Gábor (Dennis Gabor
  Dennis 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....
  
  ) (1971) - Physics;
• János Polányi (John Charles Polanyi
  John Charles Polanyi
  John Charles Polanyi, PC, CC, FRSC, O.Ont, FRS, born January 23, 1929) is a Canadian chemist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was educated at Manchester University, and did postdoctoral research at the National Research Council in Canada and...
  
  ) (1986) - Chemistry;http://www.jinfo.org/Nobels_Chemistry.html
• Elie Wiesel
  Elie Wiesel
  Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...
  
   (1986) - Peace
• János Harsányi (John Harsanyi
  John Harsanyi
  John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-Australian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner....
  
  ) (1994) - Economics;
• György Oláh (George Andrew Olah
  George Andrew Olah
  George Andrew Olah is an American chemist. His research involves the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994...
  
  ) (1994) - Chemistry;
• Imre Kertész
  Imre Kertész
  Imre Kertész is a Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"....
  
    (2002) - Literature;
• Ferenc Herskó (Avram Hershko
  Avram Hershko
  Avram Hershko is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.-Biography:Born Herskó Ferenc in Karcag, Hungary, Hershko emigrated to Israel in 1950. Received his M.D. in 1965 and his Ph.D in 1969 from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel...
  
  ) (2004) - Chemistry;

Olympic Gold Medalists at the Summer Games

Before the Holocaust.

Hungarian Jews, while comprising some 5% of the population of Hungary, won 8 individual gold medals for Hungary out of 26 (30.8%) in the Olympic sports events between 1896 and 1936. In each of the 7 gold winning teams, there were Hungarian Jews making up 35.8%
of the teams (19 out of 53 team members).

After the Holocaust, 1948-1972.

After the Holocaust, less than 1% of the population of Hungary remained of Jewish heritage.
In individual sports events, Hungary won 48 gold medals between 1948 and 1972. Sportsmen and mainly sportswomen of Jewish extraction won 10 gold medals (20.8%). Hungarian Jewish women won 7 gold medals out of the 15 individual gold medals won by Hungarian women. In the 19 gold medal winning teams for Hungary, 9 had Jewish members.

There are no known Hungarian Jewish gold medalist since 1976. Overall, Hungarian Jews won 15.4% of the 117 individual gold medals of Hungary, and had part in at least 16 out of the 42 gold medals in team events.

Period	1896-1912	1924-1936	1948-1956	1960-1972	1976-1992 (1984 excluded)	1996-2008
# of Olympics	5	4	3	4	4	4
Total Golds	442	482	440	684	903	1172
Hungarian Golds	11	22	35	32	33	26
Hungarian/total World	2.49%	4.56%	7.95%	4.68%	3.65%	2.22%
Hungarian Individual Gold	9	17	26	22	27	16
Hungarian Jewish Individual	5	3	6	4	0	0
Jewish/total individual Hungarian	55.56%	17.65%	23.08%	18.18%	0%	0%
Jews in Gold Teams	57.14% = 8/14	28.21%= 11/39
Jews in population	5.0 % (1910)	5.12% (1930)	1.45% (1949)			0.13% (2001)

1896
Alfred Hajós-Guttman (2) swimming, 100-meter freestyle, 1,500-meter freestyle
1906
Henrik Hajós-Guttman, swimming, 800-meter freestyle relay
1908
Dezső Földes, fencing, team saber
Dr.Jenő Fuchs (2), fencing, individual saber, team saber
Dr. Oszkár Gerde, fencing, team saber
Lajos Werkner, fencing, team saber
Richard Weisz, Greco-Roman wrestling, heavyweight
1912
Dezső Földes, fencing, team saber
Dr.Jenő Fuchs (2), fencing, individual saber, team saber
Dr. Oszkár Gerde, fencing, team saber
Lajos Werkner, fencing, team saber
1924
Alfred Hajós, Olympic art competition, architecture
1928
János Garay, fencing, team saber
Dr.Sándor Gombos, fencing, team saber
Attila Petschauer, fencing, team saber
Dr. Ferenc Mező, Olympic art competition, epic works
1932
István Barta, water polo
György Brody, water polo
Miklós Sárkány, water polo
Endre Kabos, fencing, team saber
Attila Petschauer, fencing, team saber
1936
György Bródy, water polo
Miklos Sárkány, water polo
Endre Kabos (2), fencing, individual saber, team saber
Ilona Elek, individual foil
Károly Kárpáti, freestyle wrestling, lightweight
1948
Ilona Elek, individual foil
1952
Robert Antal, water polo
György Kárpáti, water polo
Dezső Gyarmati, water polo
Sándor Gellér, soccer
Ágnes Keleti, gymnastics, floor exercises
Éva Székely, swimming, 200-meter breaststroke
1956
Ágnes Keleti (4)
gymnastics, asymmetrical bars, floor exercises, balance beam,
team exercise with portable apparatus
Aliz Kertész, gymnastics, team exercise with portable apparatus
György Kárpáti, water polo
László Fábián, kayak pairs, 10,000-meters
1960
Gyula Török, boxing, flyweight
1964
Tamás Gábor, fencing, team epee
György Kárpáti, water polo
Ildikó Rejtő (2), fencing, individual and team foil
Árpád Orbán, soccer
1968
Mihály Hesz, kayak, K1 1000m
1972
Sándor Erdős, fencing team epee
Gyorgy Gedó, boxing, light flyweight

Mathematicians

• Manó Beke
• Raoul Bott
  Raoul Bott
  Raoul Bott, FRS was a Hungarian mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense...
  
   http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html
• Arthur Erdélyi
  Arthur Erdélyi
  Arthur Erdélyi FRS, FRSE was a Hungarian-born British mathematician. Erdélyi was a leading expert on special functions - especially orthogonal polynomials and hypergeometric functions.-Biography:...
  
  
• Paul Erdős
  Paul Erdos
  Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory...
  
  
• Lipót Fejér
  Lipót Fejér
  Lipót Fejér , was a Hungarian mathematician. Fejér was born Leopold Weiss, and changed to the Hungarian name Fejér around 1900....
  
  
• Michael Fekete
• Laszlo Fuchs
• Tibor Gallai
  Tibor Gallai
  Tibor Gallai was a Hungarian mathematician. He worked in combinatorics, especially in graph theory, and was a lifelong friend and collaborator of Paul Erdős. He was a student of Dénes König and an advisor of László Lovász...
  
  
• Géza Grünwald
• Alfréd Haar
  Alfréd Haar
  Alfréd Haar was a Jewish Hungarian mathematician. In 1904 he began to study at the University of Göttingen. His doctorate was supervised by David Hilbert. The Haar measure, Haar wavelet, and Haar transform are named in his honor....
  
  
• Paul Halmos
  Paul Halmos
  Paul Richard Halmos was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis . He was also recognized as a great mathematical expositor.-Career:Halmos obtained his B.A...
  
  
• László Kalmár
  László Kalmár
  László Kalmár was a Hungarian mathematician and Professor at the University of Szeged. Kalmár is considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical Computer Science in Hungary.- Biography :...
  
  
• John Kemeny
• Dénes König
  Dénes König
  Dénes Kőnig was a Jewish Hungarian mathematician who worked in and wrote the first textbook on the field of graph theory....
  
  
• Julius König
  Julius König
  Gyula Kőnig was a Hungarian mathematician. He was born in Győr, Hungary and died in Budapest. His mathematical publications in foreign languages appeared under the name Julius König...
  
  
• Imre Lakatos
  Imre Lakatos
  Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the 'research programme' in his...
  
  
• Kornél Lőwy (Cornelius Lanczos
  Cornelius Lanczos
  Cornelius Lanczos Löwy Kornél was a Hungarian-Jewish mathematician and physicist, who was born on February 2, 1893, and died on June 25, 1974....
  
  ) http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Lanczos.html
• Peter Lax
  Peter Lax
  Peter David Lax is a mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields...
  
  
• John von Neumann
  John von Neumann
  John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath who made major contributions to a vast number of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, geometry, fluid dynamics, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis,...
  
  
• Paul Nevai
• Rózsa Péter
  Rózsa Péter
  Rózsa Péter , Hungarian name Péter Rózsa, was a Hungarian mathematician. She is best known for her work with recursion theory....
  
  
• George Pólya
  George Pólya
  George Pólya was a Hungarian mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory...
  
  
• Tibor Radó
  Tibor Radó
  Tibor Radó was a Hungarian mathematician who moved to the USA after World War I. He was born in Budapest and between 1913 and 1915 attended the Polytechnic Institute. In World War I, he became a First Lieutenant in the Hungarian Army and was captured on the Russian Front...
  
  
• Gusztáv Rados
• Alfréd Rényi
  Alfréd Rényi
  Alfréd Rényi was a Hungarian mathematician who made contributions in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory but mostly in probability theory.-Life:...
  
  
• Mór Réthy
• Frigyes Riesz
  Frigyes Riesz
  Frigyes Riesz was a mathematician who was born in Győr, Hungary and died in Budapest, Hungary. He was rector and professor at University of Szeged...
  
   http://www.kfki.hu/%7Echeminfo/polanyi/9702/frank2.html
• Marcel Riesz
  Marcel Riesz
  Marcel Riesz was a Hungarian mathematician who was born in Győr, Hungary . He moved to Sweden in 1908 and spent the rest of his life there, dying in Lund, where he was a professor from 1926 at Lund University...
  
   http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html
• Lajos Schlesinger
• Otto Szász
  Otto Szász
  Otto Szász was a Hungarian mathematician who worked on real analysis, in particular on Fourier series. He proved the Müntz–Szász theorem and introduced the Szász–Mirakyan operator...
  
  
• Gábor Szegő
  Gábor Szego
  Gábor 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:...
  
  
• Peter Szüsz
• Paul Turán
• Abraham Wald
  Abraham Wald
  - See also :* Sequential probability ratio test * Wald distribution* Wald–Wolfowitz runs test...
  
   http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html
• Eugene Wigner

Physicists

• Dennis Gabor
  Dennis 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....
  
  
• Theodore von Kármán
  Theodore von Karman
  Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization...
  
  
• Nicholas Kürti
  Nicholas Kurti
  Professor Nicholas Kurti FRS was a Hungarian-born physicist who lived in Oxford, UK, for most of his life. In his era, he was one of the leading experimental physicists....
  
  
• John von Neumann
  John von Neumann
  John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath who made major contributions to a vast number of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, geometry, fluid dynamics, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis,...
  
  
• Leó Szilárd
  Leó Szilárd
  Leó Szilárd was an Austro-Hungarian physicist and inventor who conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb...
  
  
• Edward Teller
  Edward Teller
  Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," even though he did not care for the title. Teller made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy , and surface physics...
  
  
• László Tisza
  László Tisza
  László Tisza was Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT. He was a colleague of famed physicists Edward Teller, Lev Landau and Fritz London, and initiated the two-fluid theory of liquid helium.-United States:...
  
  
• Eugene Wigner

Chess Players

• Rudolph Charousek
• Isidor Gunsberg
  Isidor Gunsberg
  Isidor Arthur Gunsberg began his career as the player operating the remote-controlled chess automaton Mephisto, but later became a chess professional....
  
  
• Ignatz von Kolisch
• Andor Lilienthal
  Andor Lilienthal
  Andor Arnoldovich Lilienthal was a Hungarian and Soviet chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik...
  
  
• Johann Löwenthal
  Johann Löwenthal
  Johann Jacob Löwenthal was a professional chess master.Löwenthal was born in Budapest, the son of a Jewish merchant. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native city. In 1846, he won a match against Carl Hamppe in Vienna...
  
  
• Judit Polgár
  Judit Polgár
  Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to do so at that time.Polgár was ranked No...
  
  
• Susan Polgár
  Susan Polgar
  Susan Polgar is a Hungarian-American chess Grandmaster...
  
  
• Zsófia Polgár
  Zsófia Polgár
  Sofia Polgar Sofia Polgar Sofia Polgar (born November 2, 1974 as Polgár Zsófia is a Hungarian-born International Master of chess and former chess prodigy. She is an International Master and Woman Grandmaster, and is the middle sister of Grandmasters Susan and Judit Polgár. Since 2006, she has...
  
  
• Richard Réti
  Richard Réti
  Réti composed one of the most famous chess studies, shown in this diagram. It was published in Ostrauer Morgenzeitung 4 December 1921. It seems impossible for the white king to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king...
  
  
• Adolf Schwarz
  Adolf Schwarz
  Adolf Schwarz was an Austria-Hungarian chess master.He took 10th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament . In 1878, he took 2nd, behind Louis Paulsen, in Frankfurt. In 1879, he took 3rd in Leipzig...
  
  
• Endre Steiner
  Endre Steiner
  Endre Steiner was a Hungarian chess player.Endre Steiner played for Hungary in five official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads.* In 1927, he played at first reserve board at 1st Chess Olympiad in London ....
  
  
• Herman Steiner
  Herman Steiner
  Herman Steiner was a United States chess player, organizer, and columnist.He won the U.S. Chess Championship in 1948 and became International Master in 1950....
  
  
• Lajos Steiner
  Lajos Steiner
  Lajos Steiner was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master.Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia,, and a younger brother of Endre Steiner...
  
  
• László Szabó
  László Szabó
  László Szabó may refer to:* László Szabó Hungarian sprint canoer* László Szabó , Hungarian chess grandmaster* László Szabó , Hungarian fencing master* László Szabó...
  
  

Psychoanalysts

• Michael Balint
  Michael Balint
  Michael Balint or Bálint Mihály was a Hungarian psychoanalyst and proponent of the Object Relations school.-Life:...
  
  , psychoanalyst
• Sándor Ferenczi
  Sándor Ferenczi
  Sándor Ferenczi was a Hungarian psychoanalyst, a key theorist of the psychoanalytic school and a close associate of Sigmund Freud.-Biography:...
  
  , psychoanalyst.
• Péter Popper, psychologist
• Jenő Ranschburg, psychologist
• Géza Róheim
  Géza Róheim
  Géza Róheim was a Hungarian psychoanalyst and anthropologist. Originally based in Budapest, he is often credited with founding the field of psychoanalytic anthropology, since he was the first psychoanalytically trained anthropologist to do fieldwork...
  
  
• Lipót Szondi (Léopold Szondi
  Léopold Szondi
  Léopold Szondi was a Hungarian psychiatrist, born in present day Slovakia and raised in a a German and Slovak speaking family. He is known for the psychological tool that bears his name, the Szondi test. He developed a form of depth psychology that had some prominence in Europe in the mid-20th...
  
  ), psychiatrist

Historians

• Ignác Acsády, historian
• John Lukacs
  John Lukacs
  John Adalbert Lukacs is a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic...
  
  , historian http://www.jeetheer.com/politics/lukacs.htm
• Henrik Marczali, historian
• Géza Vermes
  Geza Vermes
  Géza Vermes or Vermès is a British scholar of Jewish Hungarian origin and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian. He is a noted authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient works in Aramaic, and on the life and religion of Jesus...
  
  , historian http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s47729.htm

Social scientists

• Peter Thomas Bauer
  Peter Thomas Bauer
  Peter Thomas Bauer, Baron Bauer was a developmental economist. Bauer is best remembered for his opposition to the widely-held notion that the most effective manner to help developing countries advance is through state-controlled foreign aid.- Life :Bauer was born as Péter Tamás Bauer in Budapest,...
  
  , economist http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F05%2F06%2Fdb0601.xml
• Milton Friedman
  Milton Friedman
  Milton Friedman was an American economist, statistician, academic, and author who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades...
  
  , his parents emigrated from Beregszász, then Hungary.
• John Harsanyi
  John Harsanyi
  John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-Australian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner....
  
  , economist, game theory
  Game theory
  Game theory is a mathematical method for analyzing calculated circumstances, such as in games, where a person’s success is based upon the choices of others...
  
  ; Nobel laureate http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html
• Nicholas Kaldor
  Nicholas Kaldor
  Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor was one of the foremost Cambridge economists in the post-war period...
  
  , British economist
• János Kornai
  János Kornai
  János Kornai , is an economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states.- Biography :...
  
  , economist http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html
• Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner
  Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner
  Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner or Gottlieb William Leitner M.A.,Ph.D.,L.L.D.,D.O.L. was an Anglo-Hungarian orientalist.-Early life and education:...
  
   (1840–1899), educationist and orientalist
• Adolf Neubauer
  Adolf Neubauer
  Adolf Neubauer was sublibrarian at the Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University....
  
  , Hebraist

Films and stage

• Adrien Brody
  Adrien Brody
  Adrien Brody is an American actor and film producer. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist . Winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 at age 29, he is the youngest actor to do so...
  
  's mother was born in Budapest.
• George Cukor
  George Cukor
  George Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , David Copperfield , Romeo and Juliet and...
  
   film director
• Tony Curtis
  Tony Curtis
  Tony Curtis was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama...
  
  ; his parents were born in Mátészalka.
• Michael Curtiz
  Michael Curtiz
  Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...
  
  , born Manó Kertész Kaminer, film director
• William Fox
  William Fox
  William Fox may refer to:* William Fox , Irish international footballer active in the 1880s.* William Fox , Paymaster of the Forces of England* William Johnson Fox , British politician* William F...
  
  , founded Fox Film Corporation
• Zsa Zsa Gabor
  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  Zsa 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...
  
  
• Harry Houdini
  Harry Houdini
  Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts...
  
  
• Leslie Howard
  Leslie Howard
  Leslie Howard may refer to:*Leslie Howard , English stage performer who became star of Hollywood films during 1930s*Leslie Howard , Australian-born British pianist and composer...
  
  's father was born in Hungary
• Alexander Korda
  Alexander Korda
  Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born British producer and film director. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion Films, a film distributing company.-Life and career:The elder brother of filmmakers Zoltán Korda and Vincent...
  
  , born Sándor László Kellner, brother of Vincent and Zoltan Korda, film producer and director
• Vincent Korda
  Vincent Korda
  Vincent Korda was a Hungarian-born art director, later settling in Britain. Born in Túrkeve in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was the younger brother of Alexander and Zoltán Korda. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning once.He died in London, England...
  
  , born Vincent Kellner, brother of Alexander and Zoltan Korda, art director
• Zoltán Korda
  Zoltán Korda
  Zoltan Korda was a Hungarian-born motion picture screenwriter, director and producer.Born Zoltán Kellner, Kellner Zoltán in Hungarian name order, of Jewish heritage in Pusztatúrpásztó, Túrkeve in Hungary , he was the middle brother of filmmakers Alexander and Vincent Korda.Zoltan Korda went to...
  
  , born Zoltán Kellner, brother of Alexander and Vincent Korda, film screenwriter, director, and producer
• Peter Lorre
  Peter Lorre
  Peter Lorre was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M...
  
  
• Paul Newman
  Paul Newman
  Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...
  
  's father was born in Hungary, as was his Catholic mother.
• Emeric Pressburger
  Emeric Pressburger
  Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel , The...
  
  
• István Szabó
  István Szabó
  István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European, auteurist art cinema, he has made films that represent many of the psychological and political...
  
  , director http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/sto032.htm
• Rachel Weisz
  Rachel Weisz
  Rachel Hannah Weisz born 7 March 1970)is an English-American film and theatre actress and former fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues...
  
  's father was born in Hungary.

Hungarian Actors

• Alfonzó (György Markos)
• Oszkár Ascher
• Pál Jávor
  Pál Jávor
  Pál Jávor was one of the most known Hungarian actors, and the country's first male movie star.-Early years:...
  
  
• Gyula Kabos
  Gyula Kabos
  Gyula Kabos was a Hungarian actor and comedian, widely known for his comedic movie roles in the late 1930s.- Early Years :Kabos was born on March 19, 1887, in Budapest as Gyula Kann...
  
  
• László Kabos
• Dezső Kellér
• Kálmán Rózsahegyi
  Kálmán Rózsahegyi
  Kálmán Rózsahegyi was a Jewish Hungarian actor and teacher.He descended from a family of theatre actors; his father, Ödön Rózsahegyi performed in the countryside. Kálmán Rózsahegyi also began his career performing in the countryside, but in 1898 he was hired by the Hungarian National Theatre...
  
  
• Rodolfó
  Rodolfo
  Rodolfo is a given name, may refer to:*Rodolfo Raphael Macalintal Brother of Miggy*Rodolfo Vieira , Portuguese violinist*Rodolfo , Hungarian illusionist*Rodolfo Dantas Bispo , Brazilian footballer...
  
   (Rezső Gács)
• Béla Salamon

Conductors

• Antal Doráti
  Antal Doráti
  Antal Doráti, KBE was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1947.-Biography:...
  
  
• Adam Fischer
  Ádám Fischer
  Ádám Fischer is a Hungarian conductor of Jewish family origin. He is the general music director of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, with which he has recorded the complete Haydn symphonies for the Nimbus label, the first digital recording of the cycle...
  
  
• Ivan Fischer
  Iván Fischer
  Iván Fischer is a Hungarian conductor and composer. Born in Budapest into a Jewish musical family, Fischer initially studied piano, violin, cello and composition in Budapest...
  
  
• István Kertész
  István Kertész
  István Kertész was a Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor.-Childhood:Kertész was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1929, the first child of Margit Muresian and Miklós Kertész. His sister, Vera, was born four years later...
  
  
• Jenő Ormándy (Eugene Ormandy
  Eugene Ormandy
  Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born conductor and violinist.-Early life:Born Jenő Blau in Budapest, Hungary, Ormandy began studying violin at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music at the age of five...
  
  )
• Fritz Reiner
  Fritz Reiner
  Frederick Martin “Fritz” Reiner was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sir Georg Solti
• György Széll (George Szell
  George Szell
  George Szell , originally György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer...
  
  )

Composers

• Pál Ábrahám (Paul Abraham
  Paul Abraham
  Paul Abraham was a composer of operettas.Abraham studied at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest from 1910 to 1916...
  
  )
• Károly Goldmark
• Imre Kálmán (Emmerich Kálmán)
• György Kurtág
  György Kurtág
  György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary music.- Biography :György Kurtág was born in Lugoj in the Banat region, Romania.In 1946, he began his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he met his wife, Márta, and also György Ligeti, who became a close friend...
  
  
• György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
  György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
  
  
• Miklós Rózsa
  Miklós Rózsa
  Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-born composer trained in Germany , and active in France , England , and the United States , with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953...
  
  
• Johann Strauss I
  Johann Strauss I
  Johann Strauss I , born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty...
  
   was not Jewish, but his grandfather was born Jewish in Buda.
• Rezső Seress
  Rezso Seress
  Rezső Seress was a Hungarian pianist and composer. Some sources give his birth name as Rudolf Spitzer.Rezső Seress lived most of his life in poverty in Budapest, when, being Jewish, was taken to a labour camp by the Nazis during the Second World War...
  
  
• Leó Weiner
  Leo Weiner
  Leo Weiner , was one of the leading Hungarian music educators of the first half of the twentieth century and a composer.- Education :Weiner was born in Budapest. He had his first music and piano lessons from his brother, and later studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest, studying with János ...
  
  
• Béla Zerkovitz

Performers of Music

• Ilona Fehér
  Ilona Feher
  Ilona Feher, Ilona Fehér , was one of the last representatives of the Central European Violin School whose greats included Joseph Joachim, Otakar Ševčík and Jenő Hubay. She was also a noted violin teacher.-Early years:Feher studied with Jenő Hubay for six years at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music...
  
   - violin
• Annie Fischer
  Annie Fischer
  Annie Fischer was a Hungarian classical pianist.-Biography:Fischer was born in Budapest, and studied in that city at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Ernő Dohnányi. In 1933 she won the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in her native city...
  
   - piano
• Joseph Joachim
  Joseph Joachim
  Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant violinists of the 19th century.-Origins:...
  
   - violin
• György Pauk
  György Pauk
  -Biography:Born in Budapest, Hungary, Pauk entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music there at age twelve where he studied under Zoltán Kodály. In 1956 he left Hungary for the Netherlands and, after being persuaded by violinist Yehudi Menuhin, he permanently settled in London in 1961.Since then he...
  
   - violin
• László Polgár (bass)
  László Polgár (bass)
  László Polgár was an Hungarian operatic bass.Born in Budapest, Hungary, he studied with Eva Kutrucz at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, 1967–72, and later privately with Hans Hotter and Yevgeny Nesterenko. He made his debut at the Hungarian State Opera in 1971, as Count Ceprano in Rigoletto...
  
   - voice, bass
• Ede Reményi
  Ede Reményi
  Eduard Remenyi, Reményi Ede, born Eduard Hoffmann was a Hungarian violinist.He studied under Joseph Böhm at the Vienna Conservatory from 1842 to 1845...
  
   - violin
• Márk Rózsavölgyi
  Márk Rózsavölgyi
  Márk Rózsavölgyi Rosenthal, 1789 Balassagyarmat – 23 January 1848, Pest) was a Hungarian composer and violinist. He has been called "the father of csárdás".- Life and music :...
  
   - violin
• András Schiff
  András Schiff
  András Schiff is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist, who has won a number of awards including the Grammy and made numerous recordings.- Biography :...
  
   - piano
• János Starker
  János Starker
  János Starker |Kingdom of Hungary]]) is a Hungarian-American cellist. Since 1958 he has taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he holds the title of Distinguished Professor.- Child prodigy :...
  
   - violincello
• Mihály Székely
  Mihály Székely
  Mihály Székely was a Hungarian bass singer famous for Mozartian roles.He debuted as Ferrando in 1920 at the Budapest Opera, where he remained a principal singer until his death. His Metropolitan Opera debut was as Hunding in 1947...
  
   - voice, bass
• Joseph Szigeti
  Joseph Szigeti
  Joseph Szigeti was a Hungarian violinist.Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on the violin, and moved to Budapest with his father to study with the renowned pedagogue Jenő Hubay...
  
   - violin

Musicians

• Pál Budai, pianist, composer
• Jenő Deutsch, pianist, composer
• Ádám Fischer
  Ádám Fischer
  Ádám Fischer is a Hungarian conductor of Jewish family origin. He is the general music director of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, with which he has recorded the complete Haydn symphonies for the Nimbus label, the first digital recording of the cycle...
  
  , conductor
• Peter Frankl
  Peter Frankl
  Peter Frankl is a Hungarian-born British pianist. He mainly performs music from the Classical period , the Romantic period and the early Modern period...
  
  , pianist
• György Justus, composer, musicologist, choir master
• István Kertész
  István Kertész
  István Kertész was a Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor.-Childhood:Kertész was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1929, the first child of Margit Muresian and Miklós Kertész. His sister, Vera, was born four years later...
  
  , conductor
• Sándor Kuti, composer
• Walter Lajthai-Lazarus, conductor, composer
• Ervin Nyíregyházi
  Ervin Nyíregyházi
  Ervin Nyíregyházi was a Hungarian-born American pianist.-Childhood and early career:...
  
  , pianist
• Georg Solti
  Georg Solti
  Sir Georg Solti, KBE, was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was a major classical recording artist, holding the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31 as a conductor, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his...
  
  , conductor
• Sándor Vándor, composer, educator
• László Weiner
  László Weiner
  László Weiner was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor who perished in the Holocaust....
  
  , composer

Writers

• Bernát Alexander
• Béla Balázs
  Béla Balázs
  ----Béla Balázs , born Herbert Bauer, was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic, aesthete, writer and poet....
  
  , poet & film critic
• Tibor Déry
  Tibor Dery
  Tibor Déry was a Hungarian writer. In his early years he was a supporter of communism, but after being excluded from the ranks of the Hungarian Communist Party in 1953 he started writing satire on the communist regime in Hungary.Georg Lukács praised Dery as being 'the greatest depicter of human...
  
  
• György Faludy
  György Faludy
  György Faludy , sometimes anglicized as George Faludy, was a Hungarian-Jewish poet, writer and translator.- Notable works :...
  
  
• Milán Füst
  Milán Füst
  Milán Füst was a Hungarian writer, poet and playwright. In 1908 he met the writer Ernő Osvát and published his first work in the literary revue Nyugat. He befriended Dezső Kosztolányi and Frigyes Karinthy. After studying law and economics in Budapest, he became a teacher in a school of business...
  
  
• Andor Endre Gelléri
• Oszkár Gellért
• Lajos Hatvany
• Jenő Heltai
• Agnes Heller.
• Hugó Ignotus
• Ferenc Karinthy
  Ferenc Karinthy
  Ferenc Karinthy was a novelist, playwright, journalist, editor and translator, as well as a water polo champion. He authored more than a dozen novels. The writer and journalist Frigyes Karinthy was his father....
  
  
• Imre Kertész
  Imre Kertész
  Imre Kertész is a Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"....
  
  , winner, Nobel Prize in Literature (2002)
• József Kiss
  József Kiss
  Lieutenant József Kiss was a World War I flying ace for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was credited with 19 aerial victories. He was the most successful Hungarian ace in the war....
  
  , poet
• Arthur Koestler
  Arthur Koestler
  Arthur Koestler CBE was a Hungarian author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria...
  
  , novelist & critic http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/cesarini-koestler.html
• Aladár Komlós
• György Konrád
  György Konrád
  György Konrád is a Hungarian novelist and essayist, known as an advocate of individual freedom. He was a dissident under the communist regime.- Life :...
  
  
• József Lengyel, survivor and writer of the Gulag
• Anna Lesznai
• Rudolf Lothar
  Rudolf Lothar
  Rudolf Lothar [rú:dolf ló:tar] was a Hungarian-born Austrian writer, playwright, critic and essayist.- Literary works :* 1891 Der verschleierte König, drama...
  
  , dramatist
• Gyorgi Lukacs, Marxist literary critic and philosopher.
• Rodion Marovits
• Kati Marton
  Kati Marton
  Kati Marton is a Hungarian-American author and journalist. Her career has included reporting for ABC News as a foreign correspondent and National Public Radio, where she started as a production assistant 1971 in her 20s, as well as print journalism and writing a number of books.She is the former...
  
  
• György Moldova
• Ferenc Molnár
  Ferenc Molnár
  LanguageFerenc Molnár was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. His Americanized name was Franz Molnar...
  
  
• István Örkény
  István Örkény
  István Örkény was a Hungarian writer. A typical feature of his plays and novels is satiric view and creation of grotesque situations.- Life :...
  
  
• Károly Pap
• Giorgio Pressburger
  Giorgio Pressburger
  Giorgio Pressburger is an Italian writer of novels and short stories.Born in Budapest, Pressburger settled in Italy in 1956, where he worked as a film and theatre director. He is currently the Director of the Institute of Italian Culture in Hungary. His book The Law of White Spaces won the...
  
  
• Miklós Radnóti
  Miklós Radnóti
  Miklós Radnóti, birth name Miklós Glatter was a Hungarian poet who died in The Holocaust.-Personality and early life:...
  
  , poet
• Endre, Nagy, creator of Hungarian cabaret
• Jenő Rejtő
  Jeno Rejto
  Jenő Rejtő was a Hungarian journalist, pulp fiction writer and playwright, who died as a forced labourer during World War II. He was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, on March 29, 1905, and died in Yevdokovo, Soviet Union on January 1, 1943...
  
  
• Zoltán Somlyó
• György Spiró
  György Spiró
  György Spiró is a dramatist, novelist and essayist who has emerged as one of post-war Hungary's most prominent literary figures...
  
  
• Gábor T. Szántó
  Gábor T. Szántó
  The native form of this personal name is Szántó T. Gábor. This article uses the Western name order.Gábor T. Szántó is a Hungarian writer, poet, journalist and essayist .- Life :...
  
  
• Ernő Szép
• Antal Szerb
  Antal Szerb
  Antal Szerb was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. He is recognized as one of the major Hungarian literary personalities of the 20th century.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Dezső Szomory
• József Vészi
• Elie Wiesel
  Elie Wiesel
  Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...
  
  , writer, Nobel Peace Prize (1986)
• Zoltán Zelk
• Béla Zsolt
  Béla Zsolt
  Béla Zsolt was the Hungarian author of one of the earliest Holocaust memoirs, Nine Suitcases translated into English by Ladislaus Lob. Zsolt was born on 1 August 1895 in Komárom and died on 2 June 1949 in Budapest...
  
   writer of Kilenc Koffer

Artists

• Béla Czóbel
  Béla Czóbel
  Béla Czóbel was a Hungarian painter.-Biography:He was a student of Béla Iványi-Grünwald in the Nagybánya free school. He was enrolled in the Académie Julian in Paris in 1903 as a pupil of Jean Paul Laurens. His style reflects the principles of the Nagybánya school...
  
  
• André François
  André François
  André François , born André Farkas, was a Hungarian-born French cartoonist.He was born to a Hungarian Jewish family in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary , He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest . He moved to Paris in 1934 and entered to the atelier of the famous poster artist Adolphe Cassandre...
  
  , painter and graphic artist (Jewish father)
• André Kertész
  André Kertész
  André Kertész , born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition...
  
  , born Andor Kertész, photographer, photo-essayist
• Robert Capa
  Robert Capa
  Robert Capa was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War...
  
  , photographer
• Adolf Fényes
• György Goldmann, sculptor
• Béla Iványi-Grünwald
  Béla Iványi-Grünwald
  Béla Iványi-Grünwald was a Hungarian painter, a leading member of the Nagybánya artists' colony and founder of the Kecskemét artists' colony.-Life:...
  
  
• László Moholy-Nagy
  László Moholy-Nagy
  László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.-Early life:...
  
  
• Izsák Perlmutter
• Miksa Róth glass mosaic paintings

Business

• Leo Castelli
  Leo Castelli
  Leo Castelli was an American art dealer. He was best known to the public as an art dealer whose gallery showcased cutting edge Contemporary art for five decades...
  
  , Trieste
  Trieste
  Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...
  
  -born American art dealer of note.
• Paul Reichmann
  Paul Reichmann
  Paul Reichmann is a Canadian businessman best known for his leadership of the Olympia & York a real estate development company.-Formative years:Reichmann was born in Vienna in 1930 to Samuel Reichmann, a wealthy egg merchant and his wife René...
  
  's parents were born in Hungary
• George Soros
  George Soros
  George Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressive-liberal causes...
  
  , broke the British pound
• Robert Maxwell
  Robert Maxwell
  Ian Robert Maxwell MC was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament , who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire...
  
  , British media proprietor
• Laszlo Tauber, surgeon & real estate mogul

Industrialists and Bankers in Hungary

Lipót Aschner (Tungsram - incandescent lamps), Móricz Fischer (china-factory in Herend

Herend

Herend is a small town in Hungary , near the city of Veszprém.The history of the town goes back into Roman times, indicated by the findings near the precincts of the town, while in the Middle Ages a few villages occupied the area where the current town stands...

 in 1839), Leó Goldberger (textile), Manfred Weisz, (heavy industry), Leó Lánczy

Leó Lánczy

Leo Lánczy was a Hungarian deputy and financier.After having been connected for several years with the Anglo-Hungarian Bank and the Ungarische Boden-Credit-Gesellschaft, he was elected in 1881 director-general of the Hungarian Bank of Commerce, in which capacity he contributed greatly to the...

, Jenő Vida, Ferenc Chorin, Wolfner. Mauthner,, Fülöp Weisz, Kornfeld, Kohner, Korányi, Ullman .

Families ennobled between 1874 and 1918 (mainly industrialists)

• Biedermann 1902
• Dirsztay 1905
• Groedl 1900
• Gutmann 1905
• Harkányi 1904
• Hatvany 1917
• Hatvany-Deutsch 1895
• Hazai 1912
• Herczel 1912
• Herzog 1904
• Kohner 1904
• Korányi 1912
• Kornfeld 1908
• Königswarter 1897
• Kuffner 1904
• Lévay 1897
• Madarassy-Beck 1906
• Nauman 1906
• Ohrenstein 1913
• Orosdy 1905
• Schosberger 1890
• Tornyai-Schosberger 1905
• Ulmann 1918
• Weiss 1918
• Wodianer 1874
• Wolfner 1918

Canoeing

• László Fábián
  László Fábián (canoer)
  László Fábián is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. He won a gold medal in the K-2 10000 m at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne...
  
  , sprint canoer
  Canoe racing
  This article discusses canoe sprint and canoe marathon, competitive forms of canoeing and kayaking on more or less flat water. Both sports are governed by the International Canoe Federation ....
  
  , Olympic champion (K-2 10,000 meter), 4x world champion (3x K-2 10,000 meter and 1x K-4 10,000 meter) and one silver (K-4 10,000 meter)
• Imre Farkas
  Imre Farkas
  Imre Farkas was a 19th century Hungarian musician, most famous for his contribution for the popular Nóta style....
  
  , sprint canoer, 2x Olympic bronze (C-2 1,000 and 10,000 meter)
• Klára Fried-Bánfalvi
  Klára Fried-Bánfalvi
  Klára Fried-Bánfalvi is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the K-2 500 m event at Rome in 1960....
  
  , sprint canoer, Olympic bronze (K-2 500 m), world champion (K-2 500 m)
• Anna Pfeffer
  Anna Pfeffer
  Anna Pfeffer is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. She is Jewish....
  
  , sprint canoer, Olympic 2x silver (K-2 500 m), bronze (K-1 500 m); world champion (K-2 500 m), silver (K-4 500 m), 2x bronze (K-2 500)

Fencing

• Péter Bakonyi
  Péter Bakonyi (fencer born 1938)
  Péter Bakonyi is a Hungarian fencer. He won bronze medals in the team sabre events at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  , saber, Olympic 3x bronze
• Ilona Elek
  Ilona Elek
  Ilona Elek, known also as Ilona Elek-Schacherer was a Hungarian Olympic fencer. Elek won more international fencing titles than any other woman.-Fencing career:...
  
  , saber, 2x Olympic champion
• Sándor Erdös
  Sándor Erdös
  Sándor Erdős is a Hungarian epee fencer. He is Jewish.- Olympics :Erdős won a gold medal in the team épée at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....
  
  , épée, Olympic champion
• Dr. Dezsö Földes
  Dezso Földes
  The title of this article contains the characters ő and ö. Where they are unavailable, the name may be represented as Dezso Foldes.Dr. Dezső Földes was a Hungarian saber fencer...
  
  , saber, 2x Olympic champion
• Dr. Jenö Fuchs
  Jeno Fuchs
  Dr. Jenő Fuchs was a Hungarian Olympic champion sabre fencer.-Fencing career:...
  
  , saber, 4x Olympic champion
• Támas Gábor
  Tamás Gábor
  Tamás Gábor was a Hungarian épée fencer.-World championships:In World Championships competition, Gabor’s individual medals were a bronze in 1961 and a silver in 1962...
  
  , épée, Olympic champion
• János Garay
  János Garay (fencer)
  János Garay was a Hungarian fencer, and one of the best sabre fencers in the world in the 1920s....
  
  , saber, Olympic champion, silver, bronze, killed by the Nazis
• Dr. Oskar Gerde, saber, 2x Olympic champion, killed by the Nazis
• Dr. Sándor Gombos
  Sándor Gombos
  Dr. Sándor Gombos was a Hungarian fencer.-World Championships:...
  
  , saber, Olympic champion
• Endre Kabos
  Endre Kabos
  Endre Kabos , born in Nagyvárad, Hungary, was a Hungarian sabre fencer.-Fencing career:Kabos began fencing after receiving a fencing outfit as a birthday present. Although he hid the outfit in his wardrobe, a friend found it and teased him. The following day, he enrolled in a fencing club just to...
  
  , saber, 3x Olympic champion, bronze
• Attila Petschauer
  Attila Petschauer
  Attila Petschauer was a Jewish Hungarian Olympic fencer.-Fencing career:Born in Budapest, Petschauer was a member of the Hungarian fencing team in the 1928 and 1932 Olympics...
  
  , saber, 2x team Olympic champion, silver, killed by the Nazis
• Zoltán Ozoray Schenker
  Zoltán Ozoray Schenker
  Zoltán Ozoray Schenker was a Hungarian sabre and foil fencer.-Fencing career:Born in Váradszentmárton, Hungary, in the 1910s and 1920s Schenker was one of Hungary's top fencers when the country was known as the best fencing nation in the world.-Olympics:He appeared in three Olympiads, winning 3...
  
  , saber, Olympic champion
• Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, foil, 2x Olympic champion
• Lajos Werkner
  Lajos Werkner
  Lajos Werkner was a Hungarian sabre fencer.- Olympic career :He won gold medals in Team Sabre at the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games....
  
  , saber, 2x Olympic champion

Figure Skating

• Lily Kronberger
  Lily Kronberger
  Lily Kronberger , also spelled Lili Kronberger, was a Hungarian figure skater competitive during the early years of modern figure skating...
  
  , World Championship 4x gold, 2x bronze, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame
  World Figure Skating Hall of Fame
  The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame serves as a repository for the sport of figure skating. The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame is where the greatest names in the history of the sport are honored...
  
  
• Emília Rotter, pair skater, World Championship 4x gold, silver, 2x Olympic bronze
• László Szollás
  László Szollás
  László Szollás was a Hungarian pair skater. With partner Emília Rotter he won the World Figure Skating Championship four times in five years , and were the 1932 World silver medalists. They were the 1934 European Champions and 1930 & 1931 silver medalists...
  
  , pair skater, World Championship gold, silver, 2x Olympic bronze

Gymnastics

• Samu Fóti
  Samu Fóti
  Samu Fóti was an Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was Jewish....
  
  , Olympic silver (team combined exercises)
• Imre Gellért
  Imre Gellért
  Imre Gellért was an Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics.In 1908 he participated in the individual all-around competition and finished 39th....
  
  , Olympic silver (team combined exercises)
• Ágnes Keleti
  Ágnes Keleti
  Ágnes Keleti is a retired Hungarian artistic gymnast. The winner of 10 Olympic medals including five gold medals, she is considered to be one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes of all time. She was the most successful athlete at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-Career:Keleti is Jewish, and...
  
  , 5x Olympic champion (2x floor exercises, asymmetrical bars, floor exercises, balance beam, team exercise with portable apparatus), 3x silver (2x team combined exercises, individual combined exercises), 2x bronze (asymmetrical bars, team exercises with portable apparatus), International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
• Alice Kertész
  Alice Kertész
  Alice Kertész is a former Hungarian gymnast.She is Jewish, and was born in Budapest, Hungary...
  
  , Olympic champion (team, portable apparatus), silver (team); world silver (team)

Soccer (Association Football)

• Gyula Bíró
  Gyula Bíró
  Gyula Bíró was a Jewish-Hungarian football player and manager. As part of Hungary, Bíró completed at 1912 Olympics....
  
  , midfielder/forward (national team)
• Alfréd Brüll first owner of MTK Budapest FC
• Sándor Geller, goalkeeper, Olympic champion
• Béla Guttmann
  Béla Guttmann
  Béla Guttmann was a Jewish Hungarian footballer and coach. He played as a midfielder for MTK Hungária FC, SC Hakoah Wien, Hungary and several clubs in the United States. However he is perhaps best remembered as a coach and manager of some the world’s leading football teams, including AC Milan, São...
  
  , midfielder, national team player & international coach
• Gyula Mándi
  Gyula Mándi
  Gyula Mándi, also referred to as Mándi Gyula or Julius Mandel was a Hungarian footballer and manager.-Player:Mándi was part of the greatest era of MTK, the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  , half back (player & coach of Hungarian and Israeli national teams) and manager
• Árpád Orbán
  Árpád Orbán
  Árpád Orbán was a Hungarian football player. Orbán, born in Győr, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary, was Jewish.-Career:...
  
  , Olympic champion

Swimming

• Andrea Gyarmati
  Andrea Gyarmati
  Andrea Gyarmati is a Hungarian retired female swimmer. She won two medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....
  
  , Olympic silver (100-m backstroke) and bronze (100-m butterfly); world championships bronze (200-m backstroke), International Swimming Hall of Fame
• Alfréd Hajós
  Alfréd Hajós
  Alfréd Hajós was a Hungarian swimmer and architect. He was the first modern Olympic swimming champion and the first Olympic champion of Hungary.-Biography:...
  
   (born "Arnold Guttmann"), 3x Olympic champion (100-m freestyle, 800-m freestyle relay, 1,500-m freestyle), International Swimming Hall of Fame
• Michael "Miki" Halika
  Michael Halika
  Michael Halika is a former medley swimmer from Israel, who competed in three events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia as a member of the Israeli swimming team....
  
  , Israel, 200-m butterfly, 200- and 400-m individual medley
• József Munk
  József Munk
  József Munk was a Hungarian freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was Jewish....
  
  , Olympic silver (4x200-m freestyle relay)
• László Szabados
  László Szabados
  László Szabados was an Hungarian swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In the 1932 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay event.-References:...
  
  , Olympic bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay)
• András Székely
  András Székely
  András Székely was an Hungarian swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In the 1932 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay event. He also was fifth in his semifinal of 100 m freestyle event and did not advance.Székely died in a Nazi forced labor...
  
  , Olympic silver (200-m breaststroke) and bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay); died in a Nazi concentration camp
• Éva Székely
  Éva Székely
  Éva Székely is a Hungarian retired female swimmer. She won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics....
  
  , Olympic champion & silver (200-m breaststroke); International Swimming Hall of Fame; mother of Andrea Gyarmati
  Andrea Gyarmati
  Andrea Gyarmati is a Hungarian retired female swimmer. She won two medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....
  
  
• Judit Temes
  Judit Temes
  Judit Temes is a Hungarian swimmer and Olympic champion.Temes, who is Jewish, was born in Sopron.She competed at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, where she received a bronze medal in 100 m freestyle, and a gold medal in 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.-References:*...
  
  , Olympic champion (4×100-m freestyle), bronze (100-m freestyle)
• Imre Zachár
  Imre Zachár
  Imre Zachár was a Hungarian water polo player and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics.-Swimming career:...
  
  , Olympic silver (4x200-m freestyle relay)

Table Tennis

• Viktor Barna
  Viktor Barna
  Viktor Győző Barna was a Hungarian and British champion table tennis player.-Personal life:...
  
   (born "Győző Braun"), 22x world champion, International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame ("ITTFHoF")
• Laszlo Bellak, 7x world champion, ITTFHoF
• Anna Sipos
  Anna Sipos
  Anna Sipos was a Hungarian table tennis player. She won 21 medals in the World Table Tennis Championships.-Table Tennis Career:Sipos won 11 gold medals in World Championships...
  
  , 11x world champion, ITTFHoF
• Miklós Szabados
  Miklos Szabados
  Miklós Szabados was a Hungarian and Australian table tennis champion.Szabados won 15 World Championship titles, including the World Singles crown in 1931.-Table tennis career:...
  
  , 15x world champion

Track and Field

• Ödön Bodor
  Ödön Bodor
  Ödön Bodor was a Hungarian athlete. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was Jewish.-Career:...
  
  , Olympic bronze (medley relay)
• Ibolya Csák
  Ibolya Csák
  Ibolya Csák was a Hungarian athlete.-Career:She was best known as the winner of the women's high jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She won a gold medal in the European Championships in Athletics in 1938 in unusual circumstances...
  
  , Olympic champion & European champion high jumper
• Mór Kóczán
  Mór Kóczán
  Mór Kóczán was a Hungarian athlete who competed for Hungary in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was Jewish, was born in Kocs, and died in Alsógöd.In 1908 he competed in the discus throw event but his final place is unknown...
  
  , javelin, Olympic bronze

Water Polo

• Robert Antal
  Róbert Antal
  Róbert Antal was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.Antal, who was Jewish, was born in Budapest and died in Toronto, Canada....
  
  , Olympic champion
• István Barta
  István Barta
  István Barta was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, in the 1928 Summer Olympics, and in the 1932 Summer Olympics....
  
  , Olympic champion, gold
• György Bródy
  György Bródy
  György Bródy was a Hungarian water polo player.-Career:At the 1928 Summer Olympics he was a reserve player of the Hungarian water polo team, but did not compete in a match of the 1928 tournament.He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he was part of the...
  
  , (3g1b & 2g & 2g), goalkeeper, 2x Olympic champion
• Dezső Gyarmati
  Dezso Gyarmati
  Dezső Gyarmati is a former Hungarian water polo player and three times Olympic champion, and also a former coach of the Hungarian national water polo team.-Player career:...
  
  , Olympic water polo
  Water polo
  Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
  
   player & captain (3g1s1b) (half Jewish)
• György Kárpáti
  György Kárpáti
  György Kárpáti is a Hungarian former water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1956 Summer Olympics, 1960 Summer Olympics, and 1964 Summer Olympics.He was born in Budapest, and is Jewish....
  
  , 3x Olympic champion, 1x bronze
• Béla Komjádi
  Béla Komjádi
  Béla Komjádi was a Hungarian water polo player and coach.-Water polo coaching career:...
  
   water polo player and coach, International Swimming Hall of Fame
• Mihály Mayer
  Mihály Mayer
  Mihály Mayer was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics, in the 1960 Summer Olympics, in the 1964 Summer Olympics, and in the 1968 Summer Olympics....
  
  , 2x Olympic champion, 2x bronze
• Miklós Sárkány
  Miklós Sárkány
  Miklós Sárkány was a Hungarian water polo player.-Career:He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Budapest....
  
  , 2x Olympic champion

Wrestling

• Károly Kárpáti
  Károly Kárpáti
  Károly Kárpáti was a Jewish Hungarian Olympic wrestling champion.-Career:He won a gold medal in 1936 in the Lightweight Freestyle class...
  
   (also "Károly Kellner"), Olympic champion (freestyle lightweight), silver

Other Sports

• Paul Havas, Columbia
  Columbia University
  Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
  
   Quarterback
• Ferenc Kemény
  Ferenc Kemény
  Ferenc Kemény, also known as Francis Kemeni or Franz Kemeny was a Hungarian translator. He was born in Budapest...
  
  , co-founder and first secretary of the IOC

External links

• Jewish Hungarians and Hungarian Jews
• From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary, Andrew Handler, East European Monographs, 1985, ISBN 0880330856