Josip Broz Tito
1892 – 1980
Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892−1980)
locksmithrevolutionaryresistance fighterEsperantiststatespersonmachinistpolitician
Born May 7Wikipedia →Famous People from Hungary
18 notable historical figures from Hungary, including leaders, artists, scientists, and other influential people.
association football player (2)journalist (2)novelist (2)university teacher (2)theoretical physicist (2)nuclear physicist (2)locksmith (1)revolutionary (1)non-fiction writer (1)consultant (1)
John von Neumann
1903 – 1957
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
non-fiction writerconsultantuniversity teachereconomistmathematicianphysicistManhattan Projectcomputer scientist
Born December 28Wikipedia →Viktor Orbán
1963 – Present
Prime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010–present)
association football playerjuristpolitician
Born May 31Wikipedia →Theodor Herzl
1860 – 1904
father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)
literary criticjournalistplaywrightpoliticianlawyerwriter
Born May 2Wikipedia →Imre Kertész
1929 – 2016
Hungarian author (1929–2016)
novelistjournalisttranslatorplaywrightwriterscreenwriter
Born November 9Wikipedia →George Soros
1930 – Present
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
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Born August 12Wikipedia →Sándor Petőfi
1823 – 1849
Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary (1823–1849)
translatorpoetwriteractor
Born January 1Wikipedia →Béla Bartók
1881 – 1945
Hungarian composer and pianist (1881–1945)
classical pianistcollector of folk musicethnomusicologistmusic educatormusicologistchoreographeruniversity teachermusicianpianistpoliticiancomposer
Born March 25Wikipedia →Philipp Lenard
1862 – 1947
German physicist (1862-1947)
university teacherinventorphysicist
Born June 7Wikipedia →Franz Joseph I of Austria
1830 – 1916
Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary (1830-1916)
politicianmonarch
Born August 18Wikipedia →Eugene Wigner
1902 – 1995
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
theoretical physicistnuclear physicistuniversity teachermathematicianphysicist
Born November 17Wikipedia →Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1887 – 1970
Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (1888–1970)
short story writernovelistpoetwriter
Born August 8Wikipedia →Ferenc Puskás
1927 – 2006
Hungarian association football player (1927–2006)
association football playerassociation football coach
Born April 1Wikipedia →Dennis Gabor
1900 – 1979
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
holographeruniversity teacherinventorphysicist
Born June 5Wikipedia →Edward Teller
1908 – 2003
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
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Born January 15Wikipedia →Albert Szent-Györgyi
1893 – 1986
Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)
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Born September 16Wikipedia →Joseph Pulitzer
1847 – 1911
Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and politician (1847-1911)
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Born April 10Wikipedia →