People on Hungary's street signs

Lajos Kossuth

1090 Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman, revolutionist and governor-president of the Hungarian State during the war of independence...

Sándor Petőfi

757 Sándor Petőfi was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary. He is considered Hungary's national poet, and was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He is the author of the...

Francis II Rákóczi

571 Francis II Rákóczi was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of the Rákóczi's War of Independence against the Habsburgs in 1703–1711 as the prince of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of...

György Dózsa

433 György Dózsa was a Székely man-at-arms from Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, who led a peasants' revolt against the kingdom's landed nobility during the reign of King Vladislaus II of Hungary. The...

Endre Ady

341 Endre Ady was a turn-of-the-century Hungarian poet and journalist. Regarded by many as the greatest Hungarian poet of the 20th century, he was noted for his steadfast belief in social progress and...

István Széchenyi

297 Count István Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék was a Hungarian politician, political theorist, and writer. Widely considered one of the greatest statesmen in his nation's history, within Hungary he is...

János Arany

267 János Arany was a Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 102 ballads that have been translated into over 50...

Attila József

249 Attila József was one of the most famous Hungarian poets of the 20th century. Generally not recognized during his lifetime, József was hailed during the communist era of the 1950s as Hungary's great...

Mór Jókai

245 Móricz Jókay of Ásva, known as Mór Jókai, was a Hungarian novelist, dramatist and revolutionary. Outside of Hungary, he was also known as Maurice Jókai or Maurus Jókai or Mauritius Jókai. He was a...

Árpád

230 Árpád was the head of the confederation of the Magyar tribes at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. He might have been either the sacred ruler or kende of the Hungarians, or their military leader...

Mihály Táncsics

229 Mihály Táncsics was a Hungarian writer, teacher, journalist and politician.                         

John Hunyadi

219 John Hunyadi was a leading Hungarian military and political figure during the 15th century, who served as regent of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1446 to 1453, under the minor Ladislaus V.

Stephen I of Hungary

187 Stephen I, also known as King Saint Stephen, was the last grand prince of the Hungarians between 997 and 1000 or 1001, and the first king of Hungary from 1000 or 1001 until his death in 1038. The...

Miklós Zrínyi

179 Miklós Zrínyi was a Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman and poet. He was a member of the House of Zrinski, a Croatian-Hungarian noble family. He is the author of the first epic poem,...

Ferenc Deák (politician)

167 Ferenc Deák de Kehida was a Hungarian statesman and Minister of Justice. He was known as "The Wise Man of the Nation" and one of the greatest figures of Hungary's liberal movement.

Mihály Vörösmarty

155 Mihály Vörösmarty was a Hungarian poet and dramatist who lived and worked in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky

133 Endre Kálmán Bajcsy-Zsilinszky was an influential Hungarian national radical politician and an important voice in the struggle against German expansion and military policy. Endre was later executed...

Matthias Corvinus

120 Matthias Corvinus was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490, as Matthias I. He is often given the epithet "the Just". After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of...

János Damjanich

109 János Damjanich was an Austrian military officer who became general of the Hungarian Revolutionary Army in 1848. He is considered a national hero in Hungary.

Béla Bartók

103 Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as...

Ferenc Kölcsey

97 Ferenc Kölcsey was a Hungarian poet, literary critic, orator, and politician, noted for his support of the liberal current in Hungary regarding the politics involving the Austrian Empire. He wrote...

Zsigmond Móricz

79 Zsigmond Móricz was a major Hungarian novelist and Social Realist.                                 

Stephen Bocskai

74 Stephen Bocskai or Bocskay was Prince of Transylvania and Hungary from 1605 to 1606. He was born to a Hungarian noble family. His father's estates were located in the eastern regions of the medieval...

Géza Gárdonyi

73 Géza Gárdonyi, born Géza Ziegler was a Hungarian writer and journalist. Although he wrote a range of works, he had his greatest success as a historical novelist, particularly with Eclipse of the...

Mihály Munkácsy

70 Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.

Mihály Csokonai

70 Mihály Csokonai was a Hungarian poet, a leading figure in the Hungarian literary revival of the Enlightenment.

Miklós Radnóti

68 Miklós Radnóti was a Hungarian poet, an outstanding representative of modern Hungarian lyric poetry as well as a certified secondary school teacher of Hungarian and French. He is characterised by his...

Pál Kinizsi

68 Pál Kinizsi was a Hungarian general in the service of Hungarian army under king Matthias Corvinus. He was the Count of Temes County from 1484 and Captain-General of the Lower Parts. He was a general...

Bercsényi Miklós (főgenerális)

65 Gróf székesi Bercsényi Miklós kuruc főgenerális, II. Rákóczi Ferenc közeli harcostársa, a Rákóczi-szabadságharc egyik irányítója.

Ferenc Erkel

63 Ferenc Erkel was a Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist. He was the father of Hungarian grand opera, written mainly on historical themes, which are still often performed in Hungary. He also...

Imre Madách

63 Imre Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény was a Hungarian aristocrat, writer, poet, lawyer and politician. His major work is The Tragedy of Man. It is a dramatic poem approximately 4000 lines long, which...

Lajos Batthyány

63 Count Lajos Batthyány de Németújvár was the first Prime Minister of Hungary. He was born in Pozsony on 10 February 1807, and was executed by firing squad in Pest on 6 October 1849, the same day as...

Empress Elisabeth of Austria

61 Elisabeth, nicknamed Sisi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.

Károly Kisfaludy

61 Károly Kisfaludy was a Hungarian dramatist and artist, brother of Sándor Kisfaludy. He was the founder of the national drama.

Mihály Tompa

59 Mihály Tompa, was a Hungarian lyric poet, Calvinist minister and corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Together with János Arany and Sándor Petőfi they formed the triumvirate of...

Franz Liszt

57 Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the...

Zoltán Kodály

57 Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education.

István Dobó

55 Baron István Dobó de Ruszka (c. 1502 - Szerednye was a Hungarian soldier, best known as the successful defender of Eger against the Ottomans in 1552. Dobó was a member of the Hungarian land-owning...

Attila

55 Attila, frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in early 453. He was also the leader of an empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Gepids, among...

Gábor Baross

54 Gábor Baross de Bellus was a Hungarian statesman in Hungarian parliament, was born at Barossháza, now Pružina near Trencsén. He was for a time one of the professors there under Cardinal Kolos...

Ladislaus I of Hungary

54 Ladislaus I, also known as Saint Ladislas, was King of Hungary from 1077 and King of Croatia from 1091. He was the second son of King Béla I of Hungary and Richeza of Poland. After Béla's death in...

Kálmán Mikszáth

52 Kálmán Mikszáth de Kiscsoltó was a widely reputed Hungarian novelist, journalist, and politician. His work remains in print in Hungarian and still appears from time to time in other languages.

György Klapka

49 György (Móric) Klapka was a Hungarian general. He was one of the most important Hungarian generals of the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848–1849, politician, member of the Hungarian Parliament,...

Vasvári Pál (történész)

47 Vasvári Pál író, történész, pedagógus, filozófus, politikus, forradalmár, a „márciusi ifjak” egyik vezéralakja, honvéd őrnagy.

Ferenc Kazinczy

45 Ferenc Kazinczy, was a Hungarian author, poet, translator, neologist, an agent in the regeneration of the Hungarian language and literature at the turn of the 19th century. Today his name is...

Ferenc Móra

45 Ferenc Móra was a Hungarian novelist, journalist, and museologist.                                 

Miklós Wesselényi

43 Baron Miklós Wesselényi de Hadad was a Hungarian statesman, leader of the upper house of the Diet, member of the Board of Academy of Sciences, hero of the 1838 Pest flood. A prominent and wealthy...

Loránd Eötvös

42 Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény, also called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface...

Saint Emeric of Hungary

41 Emeric, also Emericus, Emerick, Emery or Emory. Venerated as Saint Emeric, was the son of King Stephen I of Hungary and Giselle of Bavaria.

Gabriel Bethlen

40 Gabriel Bethlen was Prince of Transylvania from 1613 to 1629 and Duke of Opole from 1622 to 1625. He was also King-elect of Hungary from 1620 to 1621, but he never took control of the whole kingdom....

Antal Nagy de Buda

40 Antal Nagy de Buda or Antal Budai Nagy was a petty nobleman from Kolozs County, Transylvania, who led the first major peasant revolt in medieval Hungary in 1437. He died in the decisive battle during...

John Calvin

39 John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was the principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called...

János Bottyán

39 János Bottyán, also known as Blind Bottyán, Vak Bottyán János was a Hungarian kuruc general.       

Ignaz Semmelweis

37 Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician and scientist of German descent who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures and was described as the "saviour of mothers". Postpartum...

Áron Gábor

37 Áron Gábor was a Székely Hungarian artillery officer in the 1848-49 Hungarian Revolution. He became one of the leaders of Székely-Hungarian forces in Transylvania during the 1848 revolution against...

Miklós Toldi

37 Miklós Toldi was a Hungarian nobleman from Bihar County of the Kingdom of Hungary, who is remembered as a legendary strong hero in Hungarian folklore. Hungarian poet János Arany based his famous...

Bálint Balassi

36 Baron Valentinus Balassa de Kékkő et Gyarmat was a Renaissance lyric poet. He wrote in nine languages: Latin, Italian, German, Polish, Turkish, Slovak, Croatian, Magyar and Romanian. He is the...

Váci Mihály

35 Váci Mihály Kossuth- és kétszeres József Attila-díjas költő, műfordító. A Kádár-rendszer időszakában, a hatvanas évek közepétől a nyolcvanas évek elejéig Magyarország ünnepelt és talán legtöbbet...

Esze Tamás

35 Esze Tamás a Rákóczi-szabadságharcot előkészítő tiszaháti felkelés vezéralakja, kuruc brigadéros.   

József Katona

32 József Katona was a Hungarian playwright and poet, creator of the Hungarian historical tragedy Bánk bán.

Dániel Berzsenyi

29 Dániel Berzsenyi was a Hungarian poet.                                                             

Somogyi Béla

28 Somogyi Béla, születési és 1890-ig használt nevén Steiner Béla magyar tanító, író, műfordító, újságíró, a Népszava szerkesztője, akit – a fehérterrort támadó cikkei miatt – szélsőjobboldali...

Kelemen Mikes

28 Kelemen Mikes (1690–1761) was a Transylvanian-born Hungarian political figure and essayist, noted for his rebellious activities against the Habsburg monarchy. Mikes is referred to as the "Hungarian...

Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians

28 Géza, also Gejza, was Grand Prince of the Hungarians from the early 970s. He was the son of Grand Prince Taksony and his Oriental—Khazar, Pecheneg or Volga Bulgarian—wife. He married Sarolt, a...

Álmos

28 Álmos, also Almos or Almus, was—according to the uniform account of Hungarian chronicles—the first head of the "loose federation" of the Hungarian tribes from around 850. Whether he was the sacred...

Ernő Kiss

27 Ernő Kiss was a honvéd lieutenant-general. He was executed for his part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and is considered one of the 13 Martyrs of Arad. Ernő Kiss was from a Transylvanian family...

Emeric Thököly

25 Emeric Thököly de Késmárk was a Hungarian nobleman, leader of anti-Habsburg uprisings like his father, Count István Thököly, before him. Emeric was Prince of Upper Hungary, an Ottoman vassal state,...

Kálmán Kandó

24 Kálmán Kandó de Egerfarmos et Sztregova was a Hungarian engineer, the inventor of phase converter and a pioneer in the development of AC electric railway traction.

Mihály Babits

24 Mihály Babits was a Hungarian poet, writer, essayist, and translator. His poems are well known for their intense religious themes. His novels such as “The Children of Death” (1927) explore...

Pista Dankó

24 Pista Dankó was a Hungarian-born bandleader and composer belonging to the Romani people. He primarily worked in the folk music styles popular in Hungary in the 19th century. He was frequently known...

Ignác Martinovics

22 Ignác Martinovics was a Hungarian scholar, chemist, philosopher, writer, secret agent, Freemason and a leader of the Hungarian Jacobin movement. He was condemned to death for high treason and...

Saint Florian

21 Florian was a Christian holy man and the patron saint of chimney sweeps, soapmakers, and firefighters. His feast day is 4 May. Florian is also the patron saint of Poland; the city of Linz, Austria;...

Sándor Kőrösi Csoma

21 Sándor Csoma de Kőrös was a Hungarian philologist and Orientalist, author of the first Tibetan–English dictionary and grammar book. He was called Phyi-glin-gi-grwa-pa in Tibetan, meaning "the foreign...

János Irinyi

21 János Irinyi was a Hungarian chemist and inventor of the noiseless and non-explosive match. He achieved this by mixing the yellow phosphorus with lead dioxide instead of the potassium chlorate used...

János Batsányi

21 János Batsányi was a Hungarian poet.                                                               

András Fáy

21 András Fáy was a Hungarian author, lawyer, politician and businessman.                             

Stephen V Báthory

19 Stephen Báthory of Ecsed was a Hungarian commander, 'dapiferorum regalium magister' (1458–?), judge royal (1471–1493), and voivode of Transylvania (1479–1493). He rose to power under King Matthias...

John the Apostle

19 John the Apostle, also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament....

János Bolyai

19 János Bolyai or Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician who developed absolute geometry—a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry. The discovery of a consistent...

Archduke Joseph of Austria (Palatine of Hungary)

18 Archduke Joseph Anton of Austria was the 103rd and penultimate palatine of Hungary who served for over fifty years from 1796 to 1847, after a period as governor in 1795.

Béla I of Hungary

18 Béla I the Boxer or the Wisent was King of Hungary from 1060 until his death. He descended from a younger branch of the Árpád dynasty. Béla's baptismal name was Adalbert. He left Hungary in 1031,...

Gyula Juhász (poet)

18 Gyula Juhász was a Hungarian poet, who was awarded the Baumgarten Prize.                           

Vásárhelyi Pál (vízépítő mérnök)

18 Vásárhelyi Pál magyar vízépítő mérnök, a Tisza szabályozásának mérnöke, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tagja.

Ilona Zrínyi

18 Countess Ilona Zrínyi was a noblewoman and heroine. She was one of the last surviving members of the Croatian-Hungarian Zrinski/Zrínyi noble family. She was the daughter of Petar Zrinski, Ban...

Louis I of Hungary

17 Louis I, also known as Louis the Great or Louis the Hungarian, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 until his death in 1382. He was the first child of Charles I of...

Imre Nagy

17 Imre Nagy was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader of the Hungarian...

József Bajza

17 József Bajza was a Hungarian poet and critic.                                                       

Elizabeth of Hungary

17 Elizabeth of Hungary, also known as Elisabeth of Thuringia, was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary and the landgravine of Thuringia.

Péter Veres (politician)

17 Péter Veres was a Hungarian politician and writer, who served as Minister of Defence from 1947 to 1948.

Péter Pázmány

16 Péter Pázmány de Panasz, S.J., was a Hungarian Jesuit who was a noted philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman. He was an important figure in the Counter-Reformation in Royal...

Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos

16 Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos was a 16th-century Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel.

Martin Luther

16 Martin Luther was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Augustinian friar. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs...

Ottó Herman

16 Ottó Herman born Herrmann Károly Ottó was a Hungarian zoologist, ethnographer, archaeologist, journalist, and politician. A polymath recognized as a pioneer of Hungarian natural history research, he...

Stephen Báthory

16 Stephen Báthory was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania as well as Prince of Transylvania (1576–1586), after previously being Voivode of Transylvania (1571–1576).

Károly Vécsey

15 Count Károly Vécsey de Hernádvécse et Hajnácskő was a Honvéd general in the Hungarian Army. He was executed for his role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and is regarded as one of the 13 Martyrs...

Coloman, King of Hungary

15 Coloman the Learned, also the Book-Lover or the Bookish, was King of Hungary from 1095 and King of Croatia from 1097 until his death. Because Coloman and his younger brother Álmos were underage when...

Árpád Tóth

15 Árpád Tóth was a Hungarian poet and translator.                                                     

János Vajda (poet)

15 János Vajda was a Hungarian poet and journalist. His first poetry was published in Életképek in 1844. He was a member of the Kisfaludy Society.

Áchim L. András

15 Áchim L. András magyar gazdálkodó, szocialista parasztpolitikus, szerkesztő, akit Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Endre és testvére, Zsilinszky Gábor agyonlőtt. Az alföldi demokratikus agrármozgalmak meghatározó...

Ignác Török

15 Ignác Török was a honvéd general in the Hungarian Army. He was executed for his part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and is considered one of the 13 Martyrs of Arad.

Mihály Fazekas

15 Mihály Fazekas was a Hungarian writer from Debrecen. He was an army private for seven years before being commissioned as a Hussar officer. As a hobby, Fazekas studied the natural sciences (botany)...

Ádám Balogh

15 Ádám Balogh de Bér was one of the most famous kuruc colonels of the Hungarian army during Rákóczi's War for Independence against the rule of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty.

Tivadar Puskás

15 Tivadar Puskás de Ditró was a Hungarian inventor, telephone pioneer, and inventor of the telephone exchange. He was also the founder of Telefon Hírmondó.

Áron Tamási

15 Áron Tamási was a Hungarian language writer from Romania. He became well known in his native region of Transylvania and in Hungary for his stories written in his original Székely style.

György Szondy

14 György Szondy was a Hungarian soldier and the captain of Drégely Castle. He was a respected soldier, even by his Turkish foes, whose recognition can be seen by his burial by Hadim Ali Pasha with full...

Vilmos Lázár

14 Vilmos Lázár de Szkáros was a honvéd colonel in the Hungarian Army. He was executed for his part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and is considered one of the 13 Martyrs of Arad. According to...

Előd

14 Előd was – according to the chronicler Anonymus, author of the Gesta Hungarorum – one of the seven chieftains of the Magyars (Hungarians), who led them to the Carpathian Basin in 895.

László Németh

14 László Németh was a Hungarian writer, dramatist and essayist.                                       

Yuri Gagarin

14 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first person to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin...

Artúr Görgei

13 Artúr Görgei de Görgő et Toporc was a Hungarian military leader and served as a leading general in the Hungarian Revolutionary Army and played a major role in its military campaigns.

Saint George

13 Saint George, also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to holy tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army. Of Cappadocian Greek...

Lajos Aulich

13 Lajos Aulich was the third Minister of War of the Hungarian State.                                 

Dezső Kosztolányi

13 Dezső Kosztolányi was a Hungarian writer, journalist, translator, and also a speaker of Esperanto. He wrote in all literary genres, from poetry to essays to theatre plays. Building his own style, he...

Ányos Jedlik

13 Ányos István Jedlik was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Benedictine priest. He was also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books. He is considered by...

Kiss János (balettművész)

13 Kiss János a Nemzet Művésze címmel kitüntetett Kossuth- és Liszt Ferenc-díjas magyar balettművész, balettigazgató, érdemes művész, a Győri Balett és a Halhatatlanok Társulatának örökös tagja.

Emmerich Kálmán

12 Emmerich Kálmán was a Hungarian composer of operettas and a prominent figure in the development of Viennese operetta in the 20th century. Among his most popular works are Die Csárdásfürstin (1915)...

Alexander Pushkin

12 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian...

Lujza Blaha

12 Lujza Blaha was a Hungarian actress and singer. She was known as "the nation's nightingale", an epithet given her by writer Mór Jókai.

Gyula Benczúr

12 Gyula Benczúr was a Hungarian painter and art teacher. An "outstanding exponent of academicism", he specialized in portraits and historical scenes. He is "considered one of the greatest Hungarian...

Miklós Ybl

12 Miklós Ybl was one of Europe's leading architects in the mid to late nineteenth century as well as Hungary's most influential architect during his career. His most well-known work is the Hungarian...

József Mindszenty

12 József Mindszenty was a Hungarian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Esztergom and leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary from 1945 to 1973. According to the Encyclopedia...

Teleki

12 The Teleki family is an old Hungarian noble family whose members, for centuries, occupied many important positions in the Principality of Transylvania, in the Holy Roman Empire and later in the...

Donát Bánki

12 Donát Bánki was a Hungarian mechanical engineer and inventor of Jewish heritage. In 1893 he invented the carburetor for the stationary engine, together with János Csonka. The invention is often,...

János Bihari

11 János Bihari was an influential Hungarian Romani violinist. He is one of the founders of Romani academic music and the musical genre verbunkos.

Arisztid Dessewffy

11 Arisztid Dessewffy de Csernek et Tarkő was a general in the Hungarian Honvéd Army during the Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849. A member of the Hungarian nobility, he served with...

Rózsa Ferenc (politikus)

11 Rózsa Ferenc építőmérnök, újságíró, kommunista aktivista a Horthy-korszak alatt. A Szabad Nép szerkesztőjeként is dolgozott.

Gyula Illyés

11 Gyula Illyés born Gyula Illés was a Hungarian poet and novelist. He was one of the so-called népi writers, named so because they aimed to show – propelled by strong sociological interest and...

Ferenc Nádasdy

11 Count Ferenc II Nádasdy de Nádasd et Fogarasföld was a Hungarian nobleman and a distinguished soldier. His family, the Nádasdy family, was one of the wealthiest and most influential of the era in...

Alfréd Hajós

11 Alfréd Hajós was a Hungarian swimmer, football (soccer) player, referee, manager, and career architect. He was the first modern Olympic swimming champion and the first Olympic champion of Hungary....

Karl Knezich

11 Karl Knezich was a honvéd general in the Hungarian Army. He was executed for his part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and is considered one of the 13 Martyrs of Arad.

Gyula Derkovits

11 Gyula Derkovits was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist whose work shows elements of Expressionism, Cubism and Constructivism.

Bertalan Szemere

10 Bertalan Szemere was a Hungarian poet and nationalist who became the third Prime Minister of Hungary during the short period of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 when Hungary was independent of rule...

John Corvinus

10 John Corvinus was the illegitimate son of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, and his mistress, Barbara Edelpöck.

Gyulai Pál (irodalomtörténész)

10 Gyulai Pál magyar irodalomtörténész, költő, író, egyetemi tanár, műkritikus, 1879-től 1899-ig Kisfaludy Társaság 4. elnöke, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tiszteleti tagja, a magyar főrendiház tagja és...

György Bessenyei

10 György Bessenyei (1747–1811) was a Hungarian playwright and poet who lived in the Austrian Empire. 

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

10 Sigismund of Luxembourg was Holy Roman Emperor from 1433 until his death in 1437. As the husband of Mary, Queen of Hungary, he was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1387. He was elected King of...

Mari Jászai

10 Mari Jászai was a Hungarian actress.                                                               

Szent Imre

10 Szent Imre magyar királyi herceg Szent István király és Boldog Gizella királyné fia, a magyar trón örököse. Anyai nagybátyjáról, II. Henrik német-római császárról nevezték el, a Hahóti kódex és...

Miklós Jósika

10 Miklós Jósika was a Hungarian soldier, politician and writer. He is recognized as the first successful novelist in Hungarian literature, through the publishing of one of his first works, Abafi...

Michael (archangel)

10 Michael, also called Archangel Michael or Michael the Taxiarch, is an archangel and the warrior of God in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam while additionally being a saint in Christianity. The...

Mór Perczel

10 Sir Mór Perczel de Bonyhád, was a Hungarian landholder, general, and one of the leaders of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Gerard of Csanád

10 Gerard or Gerard Sagredo was the first bishop of Csanád in the Kingdom of Hungary from around 1030 to his death. Most information about his life was preserved in his legends, which contains most of...

Bertalan Székely

10 Bertalan Székely was a Hungarian history and portrait painter who worked in the Romantic and Academic styles.

Hajnóczy József (jogász)

9 Hajnóczy József Krizosztomusz alispán, ügyvéd, királyi tanácsos, kamarai főtitkár, író. A magyar jakobinusok egyik vezető személyisége volt.

Aurél Stromfeld

9 Aurél Emil Stromfeld was a Hungarian general. He was the Colonel General of the General Staff of Austria-Hungary and Chief of the General Staff of the Hungarian Red Army during the Hungarian Soviet...

Frigyes Karinthy

9 Frigyes Karinthy was a Hungarian author, playwright, poet, journalist, and translator. He was the first proponent of the six degrees of separation concept, in his 1929 short story, Chains...

György Lahner

9 György Lahner was a honvéd general in the Hungarian Army. He was executed for his role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and is remembered one of the 13 Martyrs of Arad.

Albert Szent-Györgyi

9 Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the...

Gisela of Hungary

9 Gisela of Hungary was the first queen consort of Hungary by marriage to Stephen I of Hungary, and the sister of Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor. She has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

Árpád Feszty

9 Árpád Feszty was a Hungarian painter. He was born in the town of Ógyalla. His ancestors were German settlers. He was the fifth child of Silvester Rehrenbeck (1819–1910), an affluent landowner at...

Tessedik Sámuel (lelkész, 1742–1820)

9 Tessedik Sámuel, szlovákul: Samuel Tešedík, németül Samuel Teschedik evangélikus lelkész, pedagógus, pedagógiai és gazdasági szakíró.

Kond (chieftain)

9 Kond was – according to chronicler Anonymus – one of the seven chieftains of the Magyars (Hungarians), who led the Hungarians to the Carpathian Basin in 895.

Szántó Kovács János

9 Szántó Kovács János földmunkás, proletár, a magyarországi- és hódmezővásárhelyi agrárszocializmus vezetője.

Seven chieftains of the Magyars

9 The Seven chieftains of the Magyars were the leaders of the seven tribes of the Hungarians at the time of their arrival in the Carpathian Basin in AD 895. Constantine VII, emperor of the Byzantine...

József Nagysándor

8 József Nagysándor was a honvéd general in the Hungarian Army. He was executed for his part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and is considered one of the 13 Martyrs of Arad.

Károly Kós

8 Károly Kós was a Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician of Austria-Hungary and Romania.

Ervin Szabó

8 Ervin Szabó was a Hungarian social scientist, librarian and anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary.     

László Csány

8 László Csány was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Public Works and Transport in 1849. He is a martyr of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Ottó Bláthy

8 Ottó Titusz Bláthy was a Hungarian electrical engineer. During his career he became the co-inventor of the modern electric transformer, the voltage regulator, the AC watt-hour meter, the turbo...

Viktor Madarász

8 Viktor Madarász was a Hungarian painter in the Romantic style. He is best known for his historical scenes and portraits.

Elizabeth Szilágyi

8 Erzsébet Szilágyi was a Hungarian noblewoman, wife of John Hunyadi and mother of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary.

Saint Barbara

8 Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Syrian Greek saint and martyr.

Vas Gereben

8 Vas Gereben magyar ügyvéd és hírlapíró, a szabadságharc utáni években Jókai után a legnépszerűbb elbeszélők egyike. Írói álneve: Harapófogó Dániel.

József Egry

8 József Egry (1883–1951) was a Hungarian painter, considered a significant representative of Hungarian modernism.

Béla IV of Hungary

8 Béla IV was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1235 and 1270, and Duke of Styria from 1254 to 1258. As the oldest son of King Andrew II, he was crowned upon the initiative of a group of influential...

Lóczy Lajos (geológus, 1849–1920)

8 Lóci Lóczy Lajos magyar geológus, geográfus, egyetemi tanár, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tagja. A magyar földtan és földrajz kiváló tudósa. Életművéből kiemelkedik és nagy nemzetközi visszhangot is...

Ferenc Molnár

8 Ferenc Molnár, often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungarian-born author, stage director, dramatist, and poet. He is widely regarded as Hungary's most celebrated and controversial playwright.

István Csók

8 István Csók was a Hungarian Impressionist painter.                                                 

Béni Egressy

8 Béni Egressy was a Hungarian composer, librettist, translator and actor. He created a number of popular melodic compositions, including the one to Mihály Vörösmarty's patriotic poem Szózat. He also...

Albert Wass

8 Count Albert Wass de Szentegyed et Czege was a Hungarian nobleman, forest engineer, novelist, poet, member of the Wass de Czege family.

Ferenc Erdei

8 Ferenc Erdei was a Hungarian politician and sociologist. Initially a member of the National Peasant Party (NPP), he supported the party's merging into the Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) and...

Géza Gyóni

8 Géza Gyóni was a Hungarian war poet. He died in a Russian prisoner of war camp during the First World War. His many verse contributions to Hungarian literature are considered to be both immortal and...

Gyula Krúdy

7 Gyula Krúdy was a Hungarian writer and journalist.                                                 

Antal Grassalkovich

7 Count Antal I "Anton" Grassalkovich de Gyarak was an Imperial Real Privy Councilor, president of the Royal Hungarian Court Chamber, Chief Justice of Hungary (1731–1748), and confidant of Empress...

Lajos Kassák

7 Lajos Kassák was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde, and translator.

Sándor Bródy (writer)

7 Sándor Bródy was a Hungarian author and journalist.                                                 

Pongrác Kacsóh

7 Pongrác Kacsóh (1873-1923) was a Hungarian composer. He is best known for his operetta based on Sándor Petőfi's János Vitéz to a libretto by Jenő Heltai.

Irányi Dániel

7 Irányi Dániel a márciusi ifjak egyike, politikus, publicista.                                       

John von Neumann

7 John von Neumann was a Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist and engineer. Von Neumann had perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time, integrating pure...

Saint Nicholas

7 Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia during the time of the Roman Empire. Because of the...

Asztalos Sándor (katona)

7 Asztalos Sándor magyar honvédezredes, az aradi hős.                                                 

Frigyes Korányi (physician)

7 Baron Frigyes Korányi de Tolcsva was a Hungarian physician specializing in internal medicine, especially pulmonary medicine. The Korányi's sign is named after him.

Pál Szinyei Merse

7 Pál Szinyei Merse was a Hungarian painter and art educator.                                         

Henryk Dembiński

7 Count Henryk Dembiński was a Polish engineer, traveler and general.                                 

Franz Lehár

7 Franz Lehár was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow.

Dobozi Mihály

7 Dobozi Mihály – a korabeli írások adatai szerint nagy valószínűséggel a fejérmegyei Dobozra való egytelkes nemes katona volt, aki részt vett a maróti csatában.

Bálint Török

7 Bálint Török de Enying was a Hungarian aristocrat, Ban of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade), and between 1527–1542 the Lord of Csesznek. He led a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire until he was captured by...

Pálné Veres

6 Hermína Karolína Benická Verešová commonly known as Pálné Veres was a teacher and feminist from the Slovak Region of the Kingdom of Hungary. Her family were German-speaking Lutherans. Her father was...

Lázár Mészáros

6 General Lázár Mészáros (English: Lazarus Mészáros), was the Minister of War during the 1848 Hungarian Revolution.

Károly Lotz

6 Lotz Károly Antal Pál, or Karl Anton Paul Lotz was a German-Hungarian painter.                     

Mihály Zichy

6 Mihály Zichy was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He is considered a notable representative of Hungarian romantic painting. He lived and worked primarily in St. Petersburg and Paris during his...

Ernő Poeltenberg

6 Ernő Poeltenberg was a honvéd general in the Hungarian Army. He was executed for his part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and is considered one of the 13 Martyrs of Arad.

Károly Leiningen-Westerburg

6 Károly Leiningen-Westerburg was a German honvéd general in the Hungarian Army, and a member of the German House of Leiningen. He was executed for his part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and is...

József Schweidel

6 József Schweidel was a honvéd general in the Hungarian Army. He was executed for his part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and is considered one of the 13 Martyrs of Arad.

János Fadrusz

6 János Fadrusz was a Hungarian sculptor in the Neoclassical style. He was especially noted for his works on historical subjects.

Mihály Pollack

6 Mihály Pollack was an Austrian-born Hungarian architect, key figure of neoclassical architecture. His main work is the Hungarian National Museum (1837–46).

Gergely Bornemissza

6 Gergely Bornemissza was a Hungarian soldier and national hero.                                     

Anthony of Padua

6 Anthony of Padua, OFM, or Anthony of Lisbon; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.

Rómer Flóris

6 Rómer Flóris bencés szerzetes, régész, művészettörténész, festőművész, egyetemi tanár, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tagja, nagyváradi nagy-prépost-kanonok, címzetes püspök A magyar régészet atyja.

Mihály Horváth

6 Mihály Horváth was a Hungarian Roman Catholic bishop, historian, and politician. He was an exponent of Hungarian nationalism with an emphasis on its historical culture.

Lőrinc Szabó

6 Lőrinc Szabó de Gáborján was a Hungarian poet and literary translator.                             

Mihály Károlyi

6 Count Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi de Nagykároly was a Hungarian politician who served as a leader of the short-lived and unrecognized First Hungarian Republic from 1918 to 1919. He served as...

László Paál

6 László Paál was a Hungarian Impressionist landscape painter.                                       

Martin of Tours

6 Martin of Tours was the third bishop of Tours. He is the patron saint of many communities and organizations across Europe, including France's Third Republic. A native of Pannonia, he converted to...

Elek Benedek

6 Benedek Elek was a Hungarian journalist and writer, widely known as "The Great Folk-Tale Teller" of The "Szekely Hungarian" Fairy-Tales.

Antal Szerb

6 Antal Szerb was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. He is generally considered to be one of the most important Hungarian writers of the 20th century.

Andrew the Apostle

6 Andrew the Apostle was an apostle of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was a fisherman and one of the Twelve Apostles chosen by Jesus.

István Fekete

6 István Fekete was a Hungarian writer. He wrote several youth novels and animal stories.             

Blanka Teleki

6 Countess Blanka Teleki de Szék was a Hungarian noblewoman, educator and women's rights activist. She is regarded as an early feminist and pioneer in the education of females.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

5 Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to the Unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. He is considered to...

János Apáczai Csere

5 János Apáczai Csere was a Hungarian polyglot, pedagogist, philosopher and theologian, famous for his work The Hungarian Encyclopedia, the first textbook to be written in Hungarian. The Encyclopædia...

Charles I of Hungary

5 Charles I, also known as Charles Robert (Hungarian: Károly Róbert; Croatian: Karlo Robert; Slovak: Karol Róbert; Italian: Caroberto;, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1308 to his death. He was a...

Gáspár Károlyi

5 Gáspár Károlyi, or in Protestant usage, Károli was a Hungarian Calvinist pastor. He was a major figure in the Reformed Church in Hungary. He edited the Vizsoly Bible.

Eötvös Károly

5 Ráczkevi Eötvös Károly politikus, ügyvéd, író, publicista, országgyűlési képviselő, „a Vajda”. Korának egyik legnevesebb ügyvédje és legismertebb közéleti személyisége, az 1883-as tiszaeszlári vérvád...

Albert Apponyi

5 Albert György Gyula Mária Apponyi, Count of Nagyappony was a Hungarian aristocrat and politician. He was a board member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of Saint Stephen's Academy from...

Zsuzsanna Lorántffy

5 Zsuzsanna Lorántffy, anglicized as Susanna Lorantffy was a Princess consort of Transylvania by marriage to György Rákóczi I, Prince of Transylvania.

István Bibó

5 István Bibó was a Hungarian lawyer, civil servant, politician and political theorist.               

Dezső Szabó (writer)

5 Dezső Szabó was a Hungarian linguist, writer, noted mainly for his three-volume novel "Az elsodort falu" and his pamphlets. Szabó's oeuvre is contradictory, some consider it as the peak of Hungarian...

Vilmos Tartsay

5 Vilmos Tartsay, was a military officer who took part in the Hungarian resistance movement in the Second World War.

Saint Anne

5 According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels. In...

Virág Benedek

5 Virág Benedek tanár, költő, műfordító, történetíró, a magyar ódaköltészet első mestere.             

Vilmos Apor

5 Baron Vilmos Apor de Altorja was a Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, born as a baron in the noble Apor family, and served as a bishop during World War II. He became famous for protesting against the...

Kuno von Klebelsberg

5 Count Kuno von Klebelsberg zu Thumburg was a Hungarian politician who served as Minister of the Interior and Minister of Culture of the Kingdom of Hungary between the two world wars.

Mészáros Lőrinc (ferences szerzetes)

5 Nagybotú Mészáros Lőrinc, gyakran csak „Lőrinc pap” magyar katolikus pap, plébános, a Dózsa György-féle parasztfelkelés résztvevője, egyik vezetője.

József Kiss (poet)

5 József Kiss was a Hungarian poet and editor.                                                       

István Türr

5 István Türr was a Hungarian soldier, revolutionary, canal architect and engineer, remembered in Italy for his role in that country's unification and his association with Garibaldi. In the later years...

Saint Joseph

5 According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

Endrődi Sándor (költő)

5 Endrődi Sándor magyar költő, író, az MTA levelező tagja.                                           

János Kodolányi

5 János Kodolányi Hungarian writer of short stories, dramas, novels and sociographies. The Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences was named after him.

Béla Balázs

5 Béla Balázs, born Herbert Béla Bauer, was a Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage. He was a proponent of formalist film theory.

Simon István (költő)

5 Simon István magyar költő, műfordító, esszéíró, szerkesztő, országgyűlési képviselő, egyetemi tanár.

Ferenc Faludi

5 Ferenc Faludi was a Hungarian poet who has been referred to as "the father of the new Hungarian lyric." Because of Suppression of the Society of Jesus he switched to being in charge of a poorhouse....

Kelemen László

4 Kelemen László (1762-1814) was a Hungarian stage dramatist and theater director. He played a major pioneer role in Hungarian theater history as the founder of the first professional Hungarian...

Szabolcska Mihály

4 Szabolcska Mihály református lelkész, költő, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tiszteleti tagja. Fia Szabolcska László (1897–1957) irodalomtörténész volt.

Kálmán Thaly

4 Kálmán Thaly was a Hungarian poet, historian and politician. His most important works are his Kuruc poetry, the most famous literary forgery in the history of Hungarian literature.

Farkas Bolyai

4 Farkas Bolyai was a Hungarian mathematician, mainly known for his work in geometry.                 

Géza Mészöly (painter)

4 Géza Mészöly was a Hungarian landscape painter.                                                     

Noszlopy Gáspár

4 Noszlopi Noszlopy Gáspár honvédőrnagy, kormánybiztos, az 1848–49-es szabadságharcot követő függetlenségi szervezkedések egyik vezetője és vértanúja.

Brusznyai Árpád

4 Brusznyai Árpád, középiskolai tanár, az 1956-os forradalom kivégzett mártírja.                     

Pál Teleki

4 Count Pál János Ede Teleki de Szék was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 to 1921 and from 1939 to 1941. He was also an expert in geography, a...

Áron Márton

4 Áron Márton was an ethnic Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Alba Iulia from his appointment in late 1938 until his resignation in 1980. He served as a prelate during a...

Nagy Jenő (katonatiszt)

4 Nagy Jenő magyar katonatiszt, vezérkari ezredes. A nyilaskeresztes hatalom egyik áldozata.         

Vajda Péter (költő)

4 Vajda Péter magyar költő, drámaíró, pedagógus, evangélikus gimnáziumi tanár, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia levelező tagja és a Kisfaludy Társaság rendes tagja. Vajda János költő nagybátyja.

László Teleki

4 Count László Teleki IV de Szék was a Hungarian writer and statesman. He is remembered as the author of the drama Kegyencz. In older books in English he is given the name "Ladislas Teleky".

Felsőbüki Nagy Pál

4 Felsőbüki Nagy Pál liberális nemesi politikus, országgyűlési követ, az MTA igazgatótanácsának tagja (1830).

Vay Ádám (főkapitány)

4 Vajai Vay Ádám kuruc szenátor, II. Rákóczi Ferenc udvari főkapitánya.                               

George Martinuzzi

4 George Martinuzzi, O.S.P.P.E., was a Croatian nobleman, Pauline monk and Hungarian statesman who supported King John Zápolya and his son, King John Sigismund Zápolya. He was Bishop of Nagyvárad,...

Ábrahám Ganz

4 Ábrahám Ganz was a Swiss-born iron manufacturer, machine and technical engineer, entrepreneur, father of Ganz Works. He was the founder and the manager of the company that he made the flagship of the...

Miklós Izsó

4 Miklós Izsó was a Hungarian sculptor whose sculptural style integrated elements of classicism and academic style.

Nikola Jurišić

4 Baron Nikola Jurišić was a Croatian nobleman, soldier, and diplomat. He is known for commanding a force with fewer than 50 soldiers and only 700 villagers during the Siege of Kőszeg against a much...

Balázs Orbán

4 Balázs Orbán, Baron of Lengyelfalva was a Hungarian author, ethnographic collector, parliamentarian, correspondent member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1887). He is called "the Greatest...

Dennis Gabor

4 Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography. He obtained British citizenship in 1946 and spent most of his life in...

Zsigmondy Vilmos

4 Zsigmondy Vilmos magyar bányamérnök, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tagja. A magyarországi artézi kutak fúrásának kialakítója és elterjesztője, Zsigmondy Richárd Nobel-díjas kémikus nagybátyja.

Margit Kaffka

4 Margit Kaffka was a Hungarian writer and poet.                                                     

Panna Czinka

4 Panna Czinka was a famous Hungarian-Romani violinist.                                               

János Csonka

4 János Csonka was a Hungarian engineer, the co-inventor of the carburetor for the stationary engine with Donát Bánki, patented on 13 February 1893.

Lajos Pósa (mathematician)

4 Lajos Pósa is a Hungarian mathematician working in the topic of combinatorics, and one of the most prominent mathematics educators of Hungary, best known for his mathematics camps for gifted...

Leó Frankel

3 Leo Fränkel was a socialist revolutionary, labour leader of Jewish descent. In France where he participated in the Paris Commune of 1871 as a member of the First International, also known as the...

Gönczy Pál

3 Gönczy Pál magyar pedagógus, a magyar népoktatásügy kiemelkedő képviselője, az MTA tagja.           

Victor Hugo

3 Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

Dezső Szilágyi

3 Dezső Szilágyi was a Hungarian politician and jurist, who served as Minister of Justice between 1889 and 1895.

Josef von Fodor

3 Josef von Fodor de Galánta was a Hungarian professor of hygiene at the University of Buda-Pesth and pioneer of public health.

Róza Laborfalvi

3 Róza Laborfalvi was a Hungarian noblewoman, actress and wife of novelist Mór Jókai de Ásva.         

Gergely Czuczor

3 Gergely Czuczor was a Hungarian Benedictine monk, a poet and linguist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Baptized István he took Gergely (Gregory) as his religious name.

Kálmán Széll

3 Kálmán Széll de Duka et Szentgyörgyvölgy was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1899 to 1903.

Szigethy Attila

3 Szigethy Attila magyar politikus, részt vett az 1956-os forradalomban.                             

Hock János (katolikus pap)

3 Hock János katolikus plébános, politikus és író, a tiszavirág-életű Magyar Nemzeti Tanács elnöke.   

Csermák Antal György

3 Csermák Antal György zeneszerző.                                                                   

Lajos Áprily

3 Lajos Áprily was a Hungarian poet and translator who won the 1954 Attila József Prize for his contributions to Hungarian literature. Áprily was born 14 November 1887 in Brassó, Austria-Hungary and...

Mihály Székely

3 Mihály Székely was a Hungarian bass singer famous for Mozartian roles. His name in Hungarian form is Székely Mihály, his original family name was Spagatner.

Ferenc Kossuth

3 Ferenc Lajos Ákos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva was a Hungarian civil engineer and politician. 

Ferenc Toldy

3 Ferenc Toldy was a literary critic from the Austrian Empire and later Austria-Hungary.             

Johannes Gutenberg

3 Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's...

Júlia Szendrey

3 Júlia Szendrey was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator, most known as the wife of celebrated Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi.

János Pásztor

3 János Pásztor may refer to:János Pásztor (sculptor) Janos Pasztor (diplomat)                        

Margaret of Hungary (saint)

3 Margaret of Hungary, OP was a Dominican nun and the daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina. She was the younger sister of Kinga of Poland (Kunegunda) and Yolanda of Poland and,...

Ferenc Nagy

3 Ferenc Nagy was a Hungarian politician of the Smallholders Party who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1946 until his forced resignation in 1947. He was also a Speaker of the National Assembly...

Pál Maléter

3 Pál Maléter was the military leader of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution who served as minister of defence in the third government of Imre Nagy.

Miksa Déri

3 Miksa Déri was a Hungarian electrical engineer, inventor, power plant builder. He contributed with his partners Károly Zipernowsky and Ottó Bláthy, in the development of the closed iron core...

Bókay János (író)

3 Bókai Bókay János magyar író, műfordító.                                                           

Sándor Korányi

3 Baron Sándor Korányi de Tolcsva was a Hungarian physician specializing in internal medicine, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and House of Magnates.

Mathiász János

3 Mathiász János magyar szőlész-borász. A magyar és a világ szőlészetének és borászatának megmentőjeként végezte munkáját, amikor a filoxéra vész pusztította a szőlőtőkéket. Ez időben grandiózus...

Csány László

3 Csány László politikus, közmunka- és közlekedésügyi miniszter a Szemere-kormányban, táblabíró, az 1848–49-es szabadságharc vértanúja.

Gábor Klauzál

3 Gábor Klauzál de Szlavovicz was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 in the first government of Hungary. He...

József Szabó de Szentmiklós

3 József Szabó de Szentmiklós, Hungarian geologist, was born at Kalocsa. He was the brother of Ferenc Szabó.

Pope Urban I

3 Pope Urban I, also known as Saint Urban (175?–230), was the bishop of Rome from 222 to 23 May 230. He was born in Rome and succeeded Callixtus I, who had been martyred. It was believed for centuries...

Lajos Bárdos

3 Lajos Bárdos was a composer, conductor, music theorist, and professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, Hungary, where he had previously studied under Albert Siklós and...

Zsigmond Kemény

3 Baron Zsigmond Kemény was a writer from the Austrian Empire.                                       

Thomas Edison

3 Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which...

Nagyváthy János

3 Nagyváthy János az első magyar nyelvű rendszeres mezőgazdasági munka szerzője.                     

Eusebius of Esztergom

3 Blessed Eusebius of Esztergom was a Hungarian canon, hermit and the founder of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit.

András Hadik

3 Count András Hadik de Futak was a Hungarian nobleman and Field Marshal of the Imperial Army. He was Governor of Galicia and Lodomeria from January 1774 to June 1774, and is the father of Karl Joseph...

Gáspár Heltai

3 Gáspár Heltai was a Protestant writer and printer from Transylvania who produced many books in Hungarian. He was also the father of the sister-in-law of Ferenc Dávid.

László Verebélÿ

3 László Verebélÿ was a Hungarian university professor and electrical engineer. He worked in Hungary, Italy, Germany, Austria, England and the United States and did important work on the development of...

Károly Kernstok

3 Károly Kernstok was a Hungarian painter. In the early twentieth century, he was known for being among the leading groups of Hungarian painters known as the "Neos" and The Eight (1909–1918), before...

Kozma Ferenc (költő)

3 Leveldi Kozma Ferenc, írói nevein: Rimay Kálmán és Bárd Miklós magyar költő, katona. Kozma Andor (1861–1933) költő testvére, Kozma Sándor (1825–1897) jogász fia.

Ferenc Medgyessy

3 Ferenc Medgyessy was a Hungarian sculptor and physician. After graduating in medicine he studied art in Paris. Later, he studied Michelangelo and the Etruscan art in Florence. His art was dominated...

Oszkár Jászi

3 Oszkár Jászi, also known in English as Oscar Jászi, was a Hungarian social scientist, historian, and politician.

Lavotta János

3 Izsépfalvi Lavotta János magyar zeneszerző, hegedűművész, a verbunkos delelő korszakának egyik kiváló képviselője. A verbunkos triász tagja. Művelt muzsikus volt, a nyugati kultúra hatása művein is...

Ignác Alpár

3 Ignác Alpár József was a Hungarian architect.                                                       

Károly Pap

2 Károly Pap was a Hungarian writer.                                                                 

Irinyi József

2 Irinyi Irinyi József magyar hírlapíró, műfordító, országgyűlési képviselő, Irinyi János öccse.     

Podmaniczky Frigyes

2 Báró podmanini és aszódi Podmaniczky Frigyes magyar politikus, író, valóságos belső titkos tanácsos, országgyűlési képviselő, a fővárosi közmunkatanács alelnöke, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia levelező...

Milán Füst

2 Milán Füst was a Hungarian writer, poet and playwright.                                             

Jenő Heltai

2 Jenő Heltai, until 1913 Eugen Herzl, was a Hungarian author, poet, journalist and producer. Some of his works have also been translated into English and Hebrew among others.

Ferenc Puskás

2 Ferenc Puskás was a Hungarian footballer and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and the sport's first international superstar. A forward and an attacking midfielder,...

Királyi Pál

2 Királyi József Pál magyar publicista és országgyűlési képviselő.                                   

István Ferenczy

2 István Ferenczy was a Hungarian sculptor.                                                           

Keleti Márton

2 Keleti Márton háromszoros Kossuth-díjas magyar filmrendező, érdemes és kiváló művész.               

Falu Tamás

2 Falu Tamás magyar jogász, költő és regényíró. Sógora Bér Dezső festő, grafikus.                     

Szekfű Gyula

2 Szekfű Gyula Ignác magyar történész, publicista, egyetemi tanár, az MTA tagja, a kora újkori magyar történelem kutatója. A Három nemzedék szerzőjeként a Horthy-rendszer egyik fő ideológusa,...

Vilmos Zsolnay

2 Vilmos Zsolnay was a Hungarian industrialist and entrepreneur. As the director of the Zsolnay porcelain manufacture he introduced new materials and inventions into the manufacture of pottery and...

Cházár András

2 Jólészi Cházár András a váci siketnéma intézet alapításának kezdeményezője, ügyvéd, megyei főjegyző. Az elesettek, fogyatékosok szószólója, 1790-ben a „szántóvető polgárság” nevében írott „esedező...

Sibrik Miklós

2 Szarvaskendi Sibrik Miklós a dunántúli birtokos nemes Sibrik család tagja, kuruc ezredeskapitány, II. Rákóczi Ferenc fejedelemnek előbb főasztalnoka, majd 1708-tól viceudvarmestere. 1711 után urát a...

Berda József

2 Berda József Baumgarten- és József Attila-díjas magyar költő.                                       

Ódry Árpád

2 Ódry Árpád magyar színész, színiakadémiai tanár, rendező, színigazgató. Testvére Ódry Attila operaénekes.

Robert Koch

2 Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".

Bezerédj Pál

2 Bezerédj Pál, bezerédi, mezőgazdász, a magyar selyemhernyó-tenyésztés és selyemgyártás mentora.     

Baksay Sándor

2 Baksay Sándor református lelkész, a Dunamelléki Református Egyházkerület püspöke 1904-től haláláig, szépíró, költő, műfordító, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tagja.

Faller Jenő

2 Dr. Faller Jenő okleveles bányamérnök, a műszaki tudományok kandidátusa (1955), a Központi Bányászati Múzeum igazgatója, a Hazafias Népfront Sopron Városi Bizottságának elnöke, Sopron Város Tanácsa...

Karikás Frigyes

2 Karikás Frigyes, írói álnevein: Bálint, Katona Fjodor, K. F., Virág Ferenc író, politikus, újságíró, műfordító, pártmunkás.

Károlyi István (politikus, 1845–1907)

2 Nagykárolyi gróf Károlyi István politikus, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia igazgatósági tagja. Liberális eszmei világú, többnyire pártonkívüli politikusként, országgyűlési képviselőként 1887-től vett...

Joseph Szigeti

2 Joseph Szigeti was a Hungarian violinist.                                                           

Pállya Celesztin

2 Pállya Celesztin festő.                                                                             

István Szőnyi

2 István Szőnyi (1894–1960) was a Hungarian painter and printmaker noted for works such as The Bend of the Danube and Zebegény. He and his family rescued Jews during the Holocaust. Hence they were...

Hollán Ernő

2 Kislődi Hollán Ernő, teljes nevén Hollán György Ernő János magyar hadmérnök, altábornagy, államtitkár, főrendiházi tag, valóságos belső titkos tanácsos, az MTA tagja, a Magyar Mérnök- és...

Adolf Fényes

2 Adolf Fényes, originally Fischmann was a Hungarian painter of Jewish ancestry. He is best known for his cycle of paintings; The Life of a Poor Man and a series of still-lifes, done as table settings.

Katona István (történetíró)

2 Katona István bölcseleti doktor, jezsuita pap, apát-kanonok, történetíró. Fő műve a hatalmas, 42 kötetes latin nyelvű magyar történelmi szintézis, a Historia critica regum Hungariae.

Tóth Kálmán (költő)

2 Tóth Albert Kálmán magyar költő, dráma- és újságíró, politikus, az MTA levelező, a Kisfaludy Társaság rendes tagja. Majthényi Flóra költő férje, akitől később elvált, Tóth Béla újságíró, filológus...

Pál Losonczi

2 Pál Losonczi was a Hungarian communist political figure. He was Chairman of the Hungarian Presidential Council from 1967 to 1987.

Karácsony Sándor

2 Karácsony Sándor pedagógiai és filozófiai író, egyetemi tanár, a magyar filozófiai gondolkodás egyik legeredetibb alakja.

József Tóth (geographer)

2 József Tóth was a Hungarian geographer and academic, who served as Rector of the University of Pécs between 1997 and 2003.

Lipót Fejér

2 Lipót Fejér was a Hungarian mathematician.                                                         

Kálmány Lajos

2 Kálmány Lajos magyar néprajzkutató, katolikus pap.                                                 

Ferenc Herczeg

2 Ferenc Herczeg was a Hungarian playwright and author who promoted conservative nationalist opinion in his country. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Koppány

2 Koppány, also called Cupan was a Hungarian lord in the late 10th century and leader of pagans opposing the Christianization of Hungary. As the duke of Somogy, he laid claim to the throne based on the...

Wartha Vince

2 Wartha Vince kémikus, borász, műegyetemi tanár, rektor, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tagja. 1899-től 1909-ig a Királyi Magyar Természettudományi Társulat elnöke.

Ányos Pál

2 Fajszi Ányos Pál István pálos szerzetes, tanár, a magyar szentimentalizmus költészetének alakja.   

Gyula Wlassics

2 Baron Gyula Wlassics de Zalánkemén was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education between 1895 and 1903.

Titusz Dugovics

2 Titusz Dugovics or Titus Dugović was the alleged identity of an unknown Hungarian soldier who was stationed during the Siege of Belgrade by the Ottoman Empire's forces in Belgrade. Dugovics dragged...

György Kmety

2 György Kmety was a general in the Hungarian Army, and in the Ottoman Army under the name Ismail Pasha.

Varga József (író)

2 Varga József szlovéniai magyar pedagógus, író, költő, nyelvész.                                     

Hevesi Sándor

2 Hevesi Sándor, születési nevén Hoffmann Sándor magyar rendező, egyetemi tanár, drámaíró, kritikus, író, műfordító, színházigazgató.

Ervin Baktay

2 Ervin Baktay was an author noted for popularizing Indian culture in Hungary.                       

László Károly (műgyűjtő)

2 László Károly magyar-német-zsidó származású és identitású könyvkiadó, műgyűjtő, színész és író.     

Joseph Haydn

2 Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was pivotal in the evolution of chamber music forms like the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form...

Mihály Mosonyi

2 Mihály Mosonyi was a Hungarian composer. Born Michael Brand, he changed his name to Mosonyi in honor of the district of Moson, with Mihály being the Hungarian equivalent of "Michael". Like many of...

Győző Zemplén

2 Győző Zemplén was a Hungarian physicist who worked in the fields of hydrodynamics and the kinetic theory of gases.

Balogh Ferenc (építész)

2 Balogh Ferenc romániai magyar építészmérnök. Balogh Edgár fia.                                     

Hőgyes Endre

2 Hőgyes Endre orvos, egyetemi tanár, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tagja. A kísérleti orvostudomány kiemelkedő kutatója.

György Fejér

2 György Fejér was a Hungarian author, Provost – Canon, and Director of the Library, was born at Keszthely, in the county of Zala in Hungary.

László Lajtha

2 László Lajtha was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor.                           

Gábor Dayka

2 Gábor Dayka was a Hungarian poet.                                                                   

Sándor Vándor

2 Sándor Vándor (1901–1945) was a Hungarian Jewish composer.                                         

Friedrich Engels

2 Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, political theorist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He was also a businessman and Karl Marx's lifelong friend and closest collaborator, serving as...

György Festetics

2 Count György László Festetics de Tolna was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister besides the King between 1867 and 1871.

Ajtony

2 Ajtony, Ahtum or Achtum was an early-11th-century ruler in the territory now known as Banat in present Romania and Serbia. His primary source is the Long Life of Saint Gerard, a 14th-century...

Szelestey László (költő)

2 Alsószelestei Szelestey László Sándor lírikus és népies költő, ügyvéd, tanfelügyelő, királyi tanácsos, országgyűlési képviselő.

Flórián Albert

2 Flórián György Albert was a Hungarian professional football player, manager and sports official, who was named European Footballer of the Year in 1967. Nicknamed "The Emperor", he played as a...

Ede Szigligeti

2 Ede Szigligeti was a Hungarian dramatist.                                                           

Mónus Illés

2 Mónus Illés, álnevén Ács Tamás, születési nevén Brandstein Illés szociáldemokrata politikus, újságíró.

Vadas Jenő

2 Vadas Jenő, 1882-ig Vlkolinszky Jenő erdőmérnök, erdészeti szakíró, a magyarországi erdők főtanácsosa, a Bányászati és Erdészeti Akadémia tanára.

Losonci István

2 Losonci István Temesvár kapitánya, nagybirtokos, főnemes.                                           

Tolnai Lajos (író)

2 Tolnai Lajos, születési nevén Hagymássy Lajos író, publicista. A modern magyar irodalom egyik korai előhírnöke.

Bauer Sándor (mártír)

2 Bauer Sándor autószerelő-tanuló, a kommunista elnyomás mártírja. Az emberi jogok eltiprása és a kommunista önkény ellen való tiltakozás jeléül 1969. január 20-án a Múzeumkertben nyilvánosan...

Laszló Lovassy

2 László Lovassy was one of the leaders of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.                         

István Apáthy

2 István Apáthy, also known as Stephan Apáthy (1863–1922), was a Hungarian zoologist and histologist, known for his work in medical science and microscope technique. He particularly studied...

Kocsis Pál (színművész)

2 Kocsis Pál Jászai Mari-díjas magyar színész, rendező, tanár.                                       

Emília Márkus

2 Emília Márkus,, was a Hungarian aristocrat, politician and the most renowned actress of her time in Hungary, known for her roles in a number of Hungarian theatrical and film productions, including...

Pope John Paul II

2 Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in the 16th century, as...

Sztárai Mihály

2 Sztárai Mihály reformátor, evangélikus lelkész, a Dunántúli evangélikus egyházkerület szuperintendense 1553-tól haláláig, énekszerző, a 16. századi magyar irodalom jelentős alakja.

Pethe Ferenc

2 Pethe Ferenc újságíró, gazdasági szakíró, az első magyar gazdasági szaklap szerkesztője.           

Tokaji Ferenc

2 Tokaji Ferenc a hegyaljai kuruc felkelés vezére.                                                   

Jenő Huszka

2 Jenő Huszka was a Hungarian composer of operettas.                                                 

Simon Hollósy

2 Simon Hollósy was a Hungarian painter. He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism.

Pápay József (nyelvész)

2 Pápay József nyelvész, a magyar finnugrisztika jelentős képviselője, a debreceni egyetem első magyar és finnugor nyelvészet professzora; Zichy Jenő harmadik expedíciójának tagja, az obi-ugor népek és...

Péch Antal

2 Péch Antal bányamérnök, az MTA tagja. A Bányászati és Kohászati Lapok megalapítója, első kiadója és szerkesztője. Péch József bátyja.

Reviczky Gyula

2 Reviczky Gyula Kálmán József Kalazancius magyar költő, író.                                         

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political,...

Pál Kitaibel

2 Pál Kitaibel was a Hungarian botanist and chemist.                                                 

Szász Károly (költő, 1829–1905)

2 Szemerjai Szász Károly református lelkész, a Dunamelléki Református Egyházkerület püspöke 1884-től 1903-ig, emellett költő, drámaíró, műfordító, esztéta, politikus, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia...

János Pilinszky

2 János Pilinszky was one of the greatest Hungarian poets of the 20th century.                       

Pálóczi Horváth Ádám

2 Pálóczi Horváth Ádám költő, író, hagyománygyűjtő. Kazinczy Klára költőnő férje.                     

Saint Lawrence

2 Saint Lawrence or Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman emperor Valerian ordered in 258.

Beszédes József

2 Beszédes József vízépítő mérnök, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia levelező tagja.                       

Péterfy Sándor

2 Péterfy Sándor állami tanítónőképző-intézeti tanár, tanügyi író.                                   

János Garay

2 János Garay was a Hungarian poet and author, born in Szekszárd, Tolna County. From 1823 to 1828 he studied at Pécs, and subsequently, in 1829, at the University of Pest. In 1834 he brought out an...

Jenő Rákosi

2 Jenő Rákosi was a Hungarian writer, journalist, editor, and theater director. He was a member of the House of Magnates and the Kisfaludy Society, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of...

Mansfeld Péter

2 Mansfeld Péter vasesztergályos szakmunkástanuló, az 1956-os forradalmat követő megtorlások legfiatalabb áldozata. A „pesti srácok” egyikeként a Széna téri harcokban vett részt, a forradalom mártírja,...

József Marek

2 József Marek was a Hungarian veterinarian and scientist. Marek is best known for his discovery of the poultry disease that would eventually bear his name, Marek's disease. In his lifetime, Marek was...

László Magyar

2 László Magyar (1818–1864) was a Hungarian explorer and map-maker of Southwest Africa.               

Hatvany Lajos

2 Hatvany Lajos, „Hatvany báró” Kossuth-díjas magyar író, kritikus, irodalomtörténész, az MTA tagja; „az utolsó mecénás”.

Öveges József

2 Öveges József piarista szerzetes, fizikus, pap, középiskolai és egyetemi tanár, cserkészvezető.     

Féja Géza

2 Féja Géza magyar író, újságíró, szerkesztő, állami polgári iskolai tanár.                           

Bertalan Pór

2 Bertalan Pór was a Hungarian painter associated with the development of modernist Hungarian art. He was a member of The Eight, a movement among several Hungarian painters in the early twentieth...

Karl Goldmark

2 Karl Goldmark was a Hungarian-born Viennese composer.                                               

Révai Miklós

2 Révai Mátyás Miklós János piarista szerzetes, nyelvész, egyetemi tanár, a magyar történeti nyelvészet megalapítója. Máig élő helyesírási alapelvünket, a szóelemző elvet képviselte. Új nyelvészeti...

István Tisza

2 Count István Imre Lajos Pál Tisza de Borosjenő et Szeged ; was a politician who served as prime minister of Hungary from 1903 to 1905 and from 1913 until 1917. He was also a political scientist,...

Fürst Sándor

2 Fürst Sándor magyar kommunista politikus, a biatorbágyi merénylet elkövetésével ártatlanul megvádolt és kivégzett kommunisták egyike.

Leo Szilard

2 Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born American physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences. He conceived the nuclear chain...

Lenkey János

2 Lenkei és zádorfalvi Lenkey János 1848–49-es honvéd tábornok.                                       

Kálmán Kittenberger

2 Kálmán Kittenberger was an Austro-Hungarian traveller, natural historian, biologist and collector. He was born in Léva, now in Slovakia (Levice).

Zichy Péter

2 Gróf zicsi és vázsonykői Zichy Péter Pál Keresztelő János Sándor Géza Miklós Nándor Ottó Béla jogász, emlékiratíró, a recski kényszermunkatábor egyik foglya.

Mihailo Vitković

2 Mihailo Vitković was a Serbian and Hungarian poet, translator and lawyer. The well-to-do Serbian lawyer was an active participant in the organization and efflorescence of Hungarian and Serbian...

Prince Csaba

2 In Hungarian mythology, Prince Csaba was the youngest son of Attila, King of the Huns. A fierce and skilled warrior, he led the Huns to victory in all the battles they encountered over the ages. He...

Harsányi Kálmán

2 Harsányi Kálmán magyar költő, író, drámaíró, színikritikus.                                         

Magda Szabó

2 Magda Szabó was a Hungarian novelist. Doctor of philology, she also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memoirs, poetry and children's literature. She was a founding member of the Digital Literary...

Sándor Sík

2 Sándor Sík was a Hungarian writer and priest, a representative of the New Catholic poetry in Hungary. He was a professor of literature at Szeged University from 1930; from 1948 he was the Piarist...

Imre Makovecz

2 Imre Makovecz was a Hungarian architect active in Europe from the late 1950s onward.               

Endresz György

2 Endresz György pilóta, repülőoktató.                                                               

Ignác Acsády

2 Ignác Acsády was a Jewish-Hungarian historian, journalist, and fiction writer.                     

Földes Ferenc (filozófus)

2 Földes Ferenc magyar nyelvtanár, filozófus, író.                                                   

Rónay György

2 Rónay György József Attila-díjas (1967) költő, író, műfordító, esszéíró, irodalomkritikus, irodalomtörténész, országgyűlési képviselő.

Sándor Wekerle

2 Sándor Wekerle was a Hungarian politician who served three times as prime minister. He was the first non-noble to hold the office in Hungary.

Tormay Béla

2 Nádudvari Tormay Béla György mezőgazdász, állatorvos professzor, számos állatgyógyászati alapmű szerzője.

Besze János

2 Megyeri Besze János magyar író, liberális politikus, ügyvéd, országgyűlési képviselő.               

Bóna István

2 Bóna István Széchenyi-díjas régészprofesszor, egyetemi tanár, az MTA tagja (1998).                 

Benkő István (esperes)

2 Benkő István református esperes, egyházi író, lapszerkesztő.                                       

András Mechwart

2 András Mechwart de Belecska was a Hungarian-German mechanical engineer, chief executive of the Ganz Works, and a pioneer in the Hungarian mechanical and electrical engineering. As an inventor and as...

Vandalism of Michelangelo's Pietà

2 On 21 May 1972, Michelangelo's Pietà statue, located in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, was attacked by Laszlo Toth, a Hungarian geologist who believed he was Jesus Christ. With fifteen blows, he...

Vidovszky Béla

2 Vidovszky Béla festőművész.                                                                         

Wolfgang von Kempelen

2 Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen was a writer, engineer, and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the US, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more...

Robert Bosch

2 Robert Bosch was a German business magnate, engineer and inventor. He was the founder of Bosch.     

Szabó Pál (író)

2 Szabó Pál kétszeres Kossuth-díjas magyar regényíró, politikus, elbeszélő.                           

Nyáry Pál (politikus)

2 Nyáregyházi Nyáry Pál politikus, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun vármegye alispánja, képviselő, az Országos Honvédelmi Bizottmány tagja, a régi nemes Nyáry család sarja.

Várkonyi István (politikus, 1852–1918)

2 Várkonyi István szocialista politikus, vállalkozó, lapszerkesztő, az agrárszocialista mozgalom egyik vezetője.

Ferenc Csik

2 Ferenc Csik was a Hungarian swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.                       

Ludwig van Beethoven

2 Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of classical music, and his symphonies redefined the medium for later...

Sándor Ferenczi

2 Sándor Ferenczi was a Hungarian psychoanalyst, a key theorist of the psychoanalytic school and a close associate of Sigmund Freud.

Alexander Asboth

2 Alexander "Sandor" Asboth was a Hungarian military leader best known for his victories as a Union general during the American Civil War. He also served as United States Ambassador to Argentina and as...

Pál Németh

2 Pál Németh was a Hungarian sportsperson and later coach in hammer throwing.                         

Gáspár András (író)

2 Gáspár András magyar sci-fi és fantasy író, tevékeny formálója volt a kilencvenes évek alakulóban lévő magyarországi fantasztikus könyvkiadásának.

Dési Huber István

2 Dési Huber István posztumusz Kossuth-díjas (1958) magyar festőművész, grafikus. Huber Győző író öccse.

Károly Ferenczy

2 Károly Ferenczy was a Hungarian painter and leading member of the Nagybánya artists' colony.       

Zsigmond Széchenyi

2 Count Sigmund Széchenyi of Sárvár-Felsővidék was a Hungarian hunter, traveler and writer. He was a main figure of the Hungarian hunting culture, having hunted in Africa, India, Alaska and various...

Tamás Nádasdy

2 Baron Tamás Nádasdy de Nádasd et Fogarasföld (I), called the Great Palatine (1498–1562), was Hungarian nobleman, great landowner and a statesman.

Márk Rózsavölgyi

2 Márk Rózsavölgyi was a Hungarian composer and violinist. He has been called "the father of csárdás".

Lajos Haynald

2 Stephan Franz Lajos Haynald was a Hungarian Archbishop of Kalocsa-Bács, naturalist, and cardinal.   

Károly Zipernowsky

2 Károly Zipernowsky was an Austrian-born Hungarian electrical engineer. He invented the transformer with his colleagues at the famous Hungarian manufacturing company Ganz Works and he contributed...

Kormos István

2 Kormos István kétszeres József Attila-díjas magyar költő, író, műfordító, dramaturg, kiadói szerkesztő. Második felesége Rab Zsuzsa kétszeres József Attila-díjas költő volt.

Tibor Déry

2 Tibor Déry was a Hungarian writer and poet. He also wrote under the names Tibor Dániel and Pál Verdes.

Pais Dezső

2 Pais Dezső Kossuth-díjas magyar nyelvész, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia levelező (1930), majd rendes (1941) tagja. Az egyik legnagyobb magyar nyelvtörténész, a tudós- és tanárképzés példamutató...

József Galamb

2 József Galamb was a Hungarian mechanical engineer, most known as main-engineer for designing the Ford Model T.

Endre Ságvári

2 Endre Ságvári, was a Hungarian lawyer, communist and anti-fascist activist.                         

Lipp Vilmos

2 Lipp Vilmos János bölcseleti doktor, régész, csorna-premontrei kanonok és főgimnáziumi igazgató.   

Laky Demeter

2 Laky Demeter pedagógiai író, műfordító, a csornapremontrei kanonok-rend perjele.                   

Bendefy László

2 Bendefy László magyar földmérő mérnök (geodéta), geológus, történész, tudomány- és technikatörténész. 1934-ig születési nevén, Benda Lászlóként publikált, 1934-es munkái Bendefy-Benda László néven...

Saint Sebastian

2 Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot...

György Jendrassik

2 György Jendrassik or George Jendrassik was a Hungarian physicist and mechanical engineer.           

Gyula Csortos

2 Gyula József Csortos was a Hungarian film and stage actor who appeared in 80 films between 1912 and 1944. He was born in Munkács and died in Budapest.

Pál Tomori

2 Pál Tomori was a Catholic monk and archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary. He defeated an Ottoman army near Sremska Mitrovica in 1523.

Holló László

2 Holló László Kossuth-díjas magyar festő.                                                           

Péter Perényi

2 Péter Perényi de Nagyida, son of Simon of the Perényi branch of the Šubić clan, was the head of Temes County from the end of the 14th century into the start of the 15th century. He also commanded...

Leo Tolstoy

2 Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.

Bereczki Máté

2 Bereczki Máté, eredetileg Bagyinszky, 1848/1849-ben Romhányi, 1849-től Bereczki pomológus.         

Katalin Varga

2 Katalin Varga was the leader of the Transylvanian Miners' Movement in the 1840s.                   

Kiss Bálint (lelkész)

2 Kiss Bálint vagy Kis Bálint református lelkész, történész, pedagógus, a Magyar Tudós Társaság levelező tagja. Sokoldalú szakírói munkásságából különösen a magyar őstörténetre vonatkozó kutatásai és...

Bárczi Gusztáv

2 Bárczi Gusztáv magyar orvos, gyógypedagógus.                                                       

Kanizsai Dorottya

2 Kanizsai Dorottya a 15. és 16. században élt magyar főúrnő, Kanizsai Miklós soproni ispán leánya. Születésének és halálának körülményei ismeretlenek. A források utoljára 1532-ben említik.

Karl Marx

2 Karl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto, and his...

Árpád Göncz

2 Árpád Göncz was a Hungarian writer, translator, lawyer and liberal politician who served as President of Hungary from 2 May 1990 to 4 August 2000. Göncz played a role in the Hungarian Revolution of...

Sámuel Teleki (explorer)

2 Count Sámuel Teleki de Szék was a Hungarian noble and explorer who led the first expedition to Northern Kenya. He was the first European to see Lake Turkana and to explore above the snow line of the...

Vachott Sándor

2 Vachottfalvi Vachott Sándor költő, író, ügyvéd, az MTA levelező tagja, a Kisfaludy Társaság rendes tagja, Vahot Imre bátyja.

Matthias Bel

2 Matthias Bel or Matthias Bél was a Lutheran pastor and polymath from the Kingdom of Hungary. Bel was active in the fields of pedagogy, philosophy, philology, history, and theoretical theology; he was...

Bencze József (költő)

2 Bencze József tanár, költő.                                                                         

Miklós Barabás

2 Miklós Barabás was a Hungarian painter. He is mostly known for his portrait paintings, including a famous portrait of a young Franz Liszt, done in 1847 and an 1853 portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I.

Rudnay Gyula

2 Rudnay Gyula János Corvin-lánccal kitüntetett, Kossuth-díjas magyar festőművész, grafikus, iparművész, főiskolai tanár; a bajai művésztelep megalapítója és vezetője.