| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Georg von Békésy |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1899 |
13-Jun-1972 |
Mechanism of cochlear stimulation |
| László Bíró |
Inventor |
29-Sep-1899 |
24-Oct-1985 |
Ballpoint pen |
| Robert Capa |
Photographer |
22-Oct-1913 |
25-May-1954 |
War photographer |
| Cicciolina |
Pornstar |
26-Nov-1951 |
|
Italian pornstar elected to parliament |
| Michael Curtiz |
Film Director |
24-Dec-1886 |
10-Apr-1962 |
Casablanca |
| Steffi Duna |
Actor |
8-Feb-1910 |
22-Apr-1992 |
Hungarian-American character actress |
| Paul Erdos |
Mathematician |
26-Mar-1913 |
20-Sep-1996 |
Loved only numbers |
| Péter Esterházy |
Author |
14-Apr-1950 |
|
Celestial Harmonies |
| William J. Fellner |
Economist |
31-May-1905 |
15-Sep-1983 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1973-75 |
| Dennis Gabor |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1900 |
8-Feb-1979 |
Inventor of holography |
| Eva Gabor |
Actor |
11-Feb-1919 |
4-Jul-1995 |
The youngest Gabor |
| Magda Gabor |
Actor |
11-Jun-1914 |
6-Jun-1997 |
The least-known Gabor |
| Zsa Zsa Gabor |
Actor |
6-Feb-1917 |
|
Cop-slapping Gabor sister |
| Andy Grove |
Business |
2-Sep-1936 |
|
CEO of Intel, 1987-98 |
| Mickey Hargitay |
Actor |
6-Jan-1926 |
14-Sep-2006 |
Bloody Pit of Horror |
| John C. Harsanyi |
Economist |
29-May-1920 |
9-Aug-2000 |
Game theory |
| Theodor Herzl |
Activist |
2-May-1860 |
3-Jul-1904 |
Lead Zionist |
| George de Hevesy |
Chemist |
1-Aug-1885 |
5-Jul-1966 |
Radioisotope researcher |
| Gyula Horn |
Head of State |
5-Jul-1932 |
|
Prime Minister of Hungary, 1994-98 |
| Harry Houdini |
Magician |
24-Mar-1874 |
31-Oct-1926 |
Best-known magician and debunker |
| Theodore von Kármán |
Mathematician |
11-May-1881 |
7-May-1963 |
Kármán vortices |
| Imre Kertész |
Author |
9-Nov-1929 |
|
Holocaust survivor, literature Nobel |
| Arthur Koestler |
Author |
3-Sep-1905 |
3-Mar-1983 |
Darkness at Noon |
| Nicholas Kurti |
Physicist |
14-May-1908 |
24-Nov-1998 |
Molecular gastronomy |
| Tom Lantos |
Politician |
1-Feb-1928 |
11-Feb-2008 |
Congressman from California, 1981-2008 |
| Paul Lukas |
Actor |
26-May-1887 |
15-Aug-1971 |
Watch on the Rhine |
| Karl Mannheim |
Sociologist |
27-Mar-1893 |
9-Jan-1947 |
Ideology and Utopia |
| Peter Medak |
Film Director |
23-Dec-1937 |
|
Romeo Is Bleeding |
| Ferenc Molnár |
Playwright |
12-Jan-1878 |
1-Apr-1952 |
The Devil |
| Peter Munk |
Business |
8-Nov-1927 |
|
Founder of Barrick Gold |
| George A. Olah |
Chemist |
22-May-1927 |
|
Isolated carbonium ions |
| Tommy Ramone |
Drummer |
29-Jan-1952 |
|
Original drummer for The Ramones |
| Erno Rubik |
Inventor |
13-Jul-1944 |
|
Rubik's Cube |
| S. Z. Sakall |
Actor |
2-Feb-1884 |
12-Feb-1955 |
Casablanca |
| Ignaz Semmelweis |
Doctor |
1-Jul-1818 |
13-Aug-1865 |
Pioneer of antiseptics |
| Charles Simonyi |
Computer Programmer |
10-Sep-1948 |
|
Hungarian notation |
| Georg Solti |
Conductor |
21-Oct-1912 |
5-Sep-1997 |
Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| George Soros |
Business |
12-Aug-1930 |
|
Hungarian financial speculator |
| Gabor Szabo |
Jazz Musician |
8-Mar-1936 |
26-Feb-1982 |
Innovative jazz guitarist |
| István Szabó |
Film Director |
18-Feb-1938 |
|
Being Julia |
| Albert Szent-Györgyi |
Scientist |
16-Sep-1893 |
22-Oct-1986 |
Vitamins C and B2 |
| Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
| Edward Teller |
Physicist |
15-Jan-1908 |
9-Sep-2003 |
Father of the H Bomb |
| Charles Vidor |
Film Director |
27-Jul-1900 |
4-Jun-1959 |
A Farewell to Arms |
| John von Neumann |
Scientist |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
