George Soros12 August 1930, Hungarian, American
Investor, Philanthropist
Harry Houdini24 March 1874, Hungarian
Illusionist
Zsa Zsa Gabor06 February 1917, Hungarian, American
Socialite, Actress
John von Neumann28 December 1903, Hungarian, American
Mathematician
Mickey Hargitay06 January 1926, Hungarian, American
Actor
Barbara Palvin08 October 1993, Hungarian
Fashion Model
Ilona Staller26 November 1951, Hungarian
Politician, Singer
Edward Teller15 January 1908, American
Tommy Ramone29 January 1949, Hungarian, American
Record Producer, Drummer
Robert Capa22 October 1913, Hungarian
Photographer
Michael Curtiz24 December 1886, American
Film Director
Arthur Koestler05 September 1905, Hungarian, British
Jolie Gabor29 September 1896, American
Entrepreneur, Socialite
Eugene Wigner17 November 1902, American
Physicist & Mathematician
Albert Szent-Györgyi16 September 1893, Austrian, Hungarian, American
Physiologist
Dennis Gabor05 June 1900, Hungarian
Father of Holography
Leó Szilárd11 February 1898, American
Physicist
John Harsanyi29 May 1920, Hungarian, American
Economist
Oleksandra Nikolayenko03 July 1981, Hungarian
Model
Amrita Shergil30 January 1913, Indian
Indian painter
Andre Kertesz02 July 1894, Hungarian
Photographer
Erno Rubik13 July 1944, Hungarian
Inventor
Csaba Markus26 January 1953, American
Artist
George A. Olah22 May 1927, Hungarian, American
Chemist
Eva Gabor11 February 1919, Hungarian, American
Actor, Voice actor, Socialite, Stage actor,
Ferenc Puskás01 April 1927, Hungarian
Footballer
Magda Gabor11 June 1915, American
Actor, Socialite, Television actor
Catherine Schell17 July 1944, British
Actor
Georg Solti21 October 1912, Hungarian
Conductor, Pianist, Musician, Composer, Music
Andrew Grove02 September 1936, Hungarian, American
Businessman
Judit Polgár23 July 1976, Hungarian
Chess Grandmaster
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György Lukács13 April 1885, Hungarian
Philosopher
Thomas Szasz15 April 1920, Hungarian, American
Psychiatrist, Scientist, Writer, University
Charles Simonyi10 September 1948, Hungarian, American
Astronaut, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Károly Takács21 January 1910, Hungarian
Olympic shooter
Paul Lukas26 May 1891, Hungarian, American
actor, screenwriter, film actor
Arpad Miklos11 September 1967, Hungarian
Adult Film Star, Engineer, Actor
Sylvia Plachy24 May 1943, American
Photographer
Thomas Peterffy1944 AD, Hungarian, American
Businessperson
S. Z. Sakall02 February 1883, Hungarian
actor, screenwriter, writer, stage actor
Michael Polanyi11 March 1891, Hungarian
Philosopher, Economist, Chemist
Susan Polgar19 April 1969, Hungarian, American
Chess player
Hannah Szenes17 July 1921, Hungarian
Writer, Poet
Sándor Kocsis21 September 1929, Hungarian
Footballer
George Pólya13 December 1887, American
Mathematician
László Bíró29 September 1899, Hungarian
Inventor
Peter Munk08 November 1927, Canadian
Engineer
Imre Kertész09 November 1929, Hungarian
Novelist
Karl Mannheim27 March 1893, German, Hungarian, British
Sociologist, University teacher, Writer
Andrew G. Vajna01 August 1944, Hungarian
Film producer
Rudolf E. Kálmán19 May 1930, American
Mathematician, Engineer, University teacher
Michu Meszaros20 September 1939, Hungarian
Actor, Film actor
Elmyr de Hory14 April 1905, Hungarian
art forger, painter
Peter Lax01 May 1926, Hungarian
Mathematician, University teacher
Eugene Ormandy18 November 1899, Hungarian, American
Conductor, University teacher, Concertmaster
John Harsanyi29 May 1920, Hungarian, American
Economist, University teacher
László Nemes18 February 1977, Hungarian
Film Director
Judith Leiber1921 AD, Hungarian, American
fashion designer
Paul Halmos03 March 1916, Hungarian, American
Mathematician, Philosopher, Statistician
George Szell07 June 1897, Hungarian, American
Conductor, Pianist, Composer, University teacher
George de Hevesy01 August 1885, Hungarian, Swedish
Chemist, University teacher
Kati Marton03 April 1949, Hungarian, American
Journalist, writer
Nicholas Kaldor12 May 1908, Hungarian
Economist, Politician, University teacher
Raoul Bott24 September 1923, Hungarian, American
Mathematician
Mihály Károlyi04 March 1875, Hungarian
Political leader
Attila József11 April 1905, Hungarian
Hungarian poet
Charles Vidor27 July 1900, Hungarian
Film director
Stephen Samuel Wise17 March 1874, Hungarian, American
Rabbi
John Lukacs31 January 1924, Hungarian, American
Historian of the modern age, Historian, University
Ferenc Molnár12 January 1878, Hungarian, American
Author
Fritz Reiner19 December 1888, Hungarian, American
Conductor, Composer
Ephraim Kishon23 August 1924, Hungarian
Author
Katica Illényi17 February 1968, Hungarian
Singer, Composer
George Gerbner08 August 1919, Hungarian
Professor
Marcel Grossmann09 April 1878, Swiss
Mathematician
Niki Belucci10 March 1983, French
Adult Film Star, Disc jockey
Eva Zeisel13 November 1906, Hungarian
Sculptor, Ceramist
László Papp25 March 1926, Hungarian
Boxer
Agoston Haraszthy30 August 1812, Hungarian, American
Viticulturist
Annie Fischer05 July 1914, Hungarian
Classical Pianist
Endre Szemerédi21 August 1940, Hungarian, American
Mathematician
Georg von Békésy03 June 1899, Hungarian, American
Hungarian researcher
Krisztina Egerszegi16 August 1974, Hungarian
Swimmer
George Andrew Olah22 May 1927, Hungarian, American
Chemist, Scientist, University teacher
Pál Schmitt13 May 1942, Hungarian
Former President of Hungary
Gyula Horn05 July 1932, Hungarian
Prime Minister
Tibor Kalman06 July 1949, Hungarian
Graphic designer
József Antall08 April 1932, Hungarian
Teacher
Franz Alexander22 January 1891, Hungarian, American
Psychoanalyst
Mária Telkes12 December 1900, Hungarian
Biophysicist
Peter Carl Goldmark02 December 1906, Hungarian, American
Engineer, Physicist
László Babai20 July 1950, Hungarian
Mathematician, Computer scientist, University
George Tabori24 May 1914, Hungarian, British
Writer
Cornell Capa10 April 1918, Hungarian, American
Photographer