- Tom Lantos
Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos, Ph.D (born February 1 1928, Budapest, Hungary as Lantos Tamás Péter) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1981, representing California's 12th congressional district, located in the southwest part of San Francisco County and the northern part of San Mateo County. He is the chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. - Lajos Koltai
Lajos Koltai, ASC, HSC, (born April 2, 1946 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian cinematographer and film director best known for his work with legendary Hungarian director Istvan Szabo, and Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000 for his work on the film "Malena". - Felix Salten
Felix Salten (September 6, 1869 - October 8, 1945) was an Austrian writer. He was born Siegmund Salzmann in Budapest, Hungary. When he was three weeks old, his family moved to Vienna, Austria. Many Jews were immigrating into the city in the late 19th century because Vienna had finally granted full citizenship to Jews in 1867. When his father went bankrupt he had to quit school and begin working in an insurance agency. - Julia Taylor
Julia Taylor (born in November 3, 1978 in Budapest, Hungary) is a European adult film actress. She has done many movies for Private Media Group, such as the part of Cleopatra in Private's releases "Private Gold #61: Cleopatra" and "Private Gold #64: Cleopatra #2 - The Legend of Eros". - Judith Leiber
Judith Leiber (born Judith Peto in 1921 in Budapest, Hungary) is a world-renowned designer of haute couture handbags. Judith Peto was the first woman to join the handbag-makers guild in Budapest. A Jew, she escaped the Holocaust of World War II to the safety of the Swiss house when her father was able to obtain a Swiss schutzpass, a document that gave the bearer safe passage(this pass is on view at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC). - Theodore Hardeen
Theodore Hardeen was a magician and escape artist, best known as Harry Houdini's brother. So dedicated was he to Houdini that Hardeen usually introduced himself as the “brother of Houdini." He was the founder of the Magician's Guild. He was born as Ferencz Dezso Weisz or Weisz Ferenc Dezső in Budapest, Hungary and went by the name of Theodore Weiss when the family was living in Appleton, Wisconsin. - Charles Vidor
Charles Vidor was a film director. Born Vidor Károly to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, Vidor first came to prominence during the final years of the silent film era. Among his film successes are "Cover Girl" (1944), "A Song to Remember" (1945), "Gilda" (1946), "Love Me or Leave Me" (1955), "The Swan (film)" (1956) and "A Farewell to Arms" (1957). - Ivan Tors
Ivan Tors (born Budapest, Hungary June 12, 1916 - June 4, 1983) was a playwright, screenwriter and film and television producer. He wrote several plays in his native country before moving to the U.S. just prior to World War II. Long interested in fact-based science-fiction (often with an underwater setting), Tors partnered with actor Richard Carlson in the 1950s to create A-Men Films, a production company devoted to making movies about its own fictitious exploits. - Tibor Takács
Tibor Takács is a director of horror and exploitation films. He was born on 11 September 1954 in Budapest, Hungary. He was the recording engineer behind infamous Toronto punk band The Viletones's recording sessions in the spring of 1977. - George Gerbner
George Gerbner was a communication theorist, the founder of cultivation theory, and a poet. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he immigrated to America in late 1939. Gerbner earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 1942. He worked briefly for the San Francisco Chronicle as a writer, columnist and assistant financial editor. He joined the US Army in 1943. - Steffi Duna
Steffi Duna (February 8, 1910 - April 22, 1992) was a Hungarian born film actress popular in American and British films during the 1930s. The daughter of a winemaker, Duna was 5'2" tall. Her ethnicity was Czechoslovakian. - László Vajda
László Vajda was born in Budapest, Hungary on 3 February 1923. He attended the famous Budapesti Piarista Gimnázium and consequently studied at Budapest University, submitting his PhD thesis in 1947. He left Hungary in 1956 for Western Germany. Germanan anthropologist Hermann Baumann (Social Anthropologist) gave him his first job at the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt. Later on he moved with Baumann to the Institut für Völkerkunde und Afrikanistik in Munich, … - Balint Vazsonyi
Balint Vazsonyi (March 7, 1936 - January 17, 2003) was a concert pianist and conservative commentator. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, and fled to the United States during the 1956 Hungarian revolution. After becoming an American citizen, he ran for mayor of Bloomington, Indiana, and headed the Center for the American Founding, and wrote a book, America's 30 Years War. He was a professor of Music at Indiana University. - Miki Dora
Miki Dora (1936-2002) "'An Autobiography of a Legend Mickey Chapin Dora, Miklos S. Dora III, Miki Dora, MSD III. The names are many, and so are the facets of the man they call "Da Cat"'." Mickey Dora is surfing's Black Knight, the consummate antihero of the Malibu era. Born in Budapest, Hungary to Miklos and Ramona Dora (who soon divorced), his stepfather, the great surfer Gard Chapin, … - Raul Cristian
Raul Cristian (born October 18, 1973 in Satu Mare, Romania) is an ex-pornographic actor, director and producer of pornographic movies. Usually credited under the name Raul Cristian, he is also working under another pseudonym: Chris Rolie. Raul Cristian entered the adult business as a performer shooting his first scene when he was 20 in Budapest, Hungary. As a performer he appeared in over 50 European or American movies. - Hugo Gellert
Hugo Gellert (1892-1985) was an American illustrator and satirist. - Harald Feller
Harald Feller was a Swiss diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. He replaced Maximilian Jaeger (c1915-1999) as head of the Swiss legation in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944. He supported Carl Lutz with the rescue of Jews under Swiss protection. Feller worked closely with the other neutral legations in constantly pressuring the Horthy and Sztójay governments to end the persecution and deportations of Jews. - Inge Dekker
Inge Dekker (born August 18, 1985 in Assen, Drenthe) is a butterfly and freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who won the bronze medal with the Dutch Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She did so alongside Inge de Bruijn, Marleen Veldhuis and Chantal Groot. Dekker made her international senior debut at the European SC Championships 2001 in Antwerp, Belgium. Her first big individual title came on August 4, 2006, … - Alexis Rubalcaba
Alexis Rubalcaba Polledo (born September 9, 1972) is a retired boxer from Cuba, who competed in the Super Heavyweight division. He twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1996 and 2000. One of his biggest achievements in amateur boxing was winning the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada. Two years earlier, at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary, he won a silver medal. - Paul Fejos
Paul Fejos was a film director in America. Fejos was born in Budapest, Hungary as Pál Fejös. He emigrated to the United States in 1924 and became a naturalized citizen in 1930. - António Pinto
António Pinto is a Portuguese long-distance runner who won the London Marathon in 1992, 1997 and 2000. He also won the 10,000 metres final at the 1998 European Championships in Athletics in Budapest, Hungary. Pinto's best time in the marathon is 2:06:36. He competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988. Previously a cyclist, Pinto switched to running in 1986. World class over 10,000m, he made the Olympic final in 1988, … - Elisabeth Haich
Elisabeth Haich (1897-1994) was a spiritual teacher and author of several books dedicated to spiritual subjects. She was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. After the end of the World War II, she fled to Switzerland and founded the oldest yoga school in Europe. In her best known book "Initiation", Elisabeth Haich relates the dramatic story of her past life in ancient Egypt and her apprenticeship with Divine Ptahotep. - Rudolf Kalman
Rudolf Emil Kálmán is an American-Hungarian mathematical system theorist, who is an electrical engineer by training. He is most famous for his co-invention of the Kalman filter, a mathematical technique widely used in control systems and avionics to extract a signal from a series of incomplete and noisy measurements. Kálmán's ideas on filtering were initially met with scepticism, … - Balthazar Korab
Balthazar Korab (1926 -) is a photographer based in Detroit, Michigan who specializes in architectural, art and landscape photography. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, and migrated to France after fleeing from Hungary's communist government in 1949. At the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France, he completed a diploma of architecture in 1954. For a time, he was a journeyman under the direction of leading European architects, including Le Corbusier. - Aschwin Wildeboer
Aschwin Wildeboer is a backstroke swimmer of Dutch origin. His parents, both born and raised in Holland, moved to Spain in 1978, and settled in Sabadell, where his father Paulus Wildeboer became the head coach of the local swimming club, called "Club Natación Sabadell". There he and his older brother Olaf, a freestyle swimmer, were raised. They both represented Spain at the 2004 Summer Olympics, … - Miklos Szabados
Miklos Szabados (b. March 7, 1912, in Budapest, Hungary; d. Feb. 12, 1962, in Sydney, Australia) was a Hungarian and Australian table tennis player. Szabados won 15 World Championship titles, including the World Singles crown in 1931. - Isidor Gunsberg
Isidor Gunsberg (November 2, 1854, in Budapest, Hungary - May 2, 1930, in London) began his career as the player inside the chess automaton Mephisto, but later became a chess professional. He moved to Great Britain in 1876, later becoming a British citizen. Gunsberg was the first British citizen to play for the world championship, challenging Wilhelm Steinitz in 1890-91 in New York. He lost the match with 4 wins, 6 losses, and 9 draws. - Karl Targownik
Karl Kalman Targownik (June 17, 1915 - January 2, 1996) was a psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor. Dr. Targownik was born in Budapest, Hungary, to a Jewish family. While studying in Poland to become a medical doctor, Targownik was captured and sent to a concentration camp. For a period of time, Targownik was a prisoner at the infamous Auschwitz camp. At 29 years old and a mere 80 pounds (36 kg), Targownik was liberated on April 29, 1945 from the Dachau camp. - Rudolph G. Tenerowicz
Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz (June 14, 1890 - August 31, 1963) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. - Ilona Elek
Ilona Elek-Schacherer, (May 17, 1907 - July 24, 1988), born in Budapest, Hungary, was a Hungarian Olympic fencer. Elek won more international fencing titles than any other woman. - Robert Krausz
Robert Krausz (1936 - October 3, 2002) was a commodities and futures trader. As a child born in Budapest, Hungary, Robert Krausz spent most of his childhood living in one of nine ghettos formed by the Nazis during World War II, established to confine Jews into tightly packed areas of the cities of Eastern Europe. He survived World War II by escaping from a group being led to a concentration camp. After the war, he ended up in a South African orphanage, … - Emelie Rotter
Emiliea Rotter (born in 1906 in Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian pair skater. With partner Laszlo Szollas, she won the World Figure Skating Championship four times in five years, 1931 through 1935. They were silver medalists in 1932. They were the 1934 European Champions in Prague. They also won silver medals at the 1930 Championships in Vienna and the 1931 Championshiops in St. Moritz. Rotter and Szollas won Olympic bronze medals at the 1932 and 1936 Games. - Giorgio Santelli
"Maestro" Giorgio Santelli (November 25 1897 - 1985) was a legendary fencer and fencing master who was the largest mid-20th century influence in raising the quality and popularity of fencing in the United States, and creator of one of the best-known fencing equipment manufacturers. Born in Budapest, Hungary, but always keeping his Italian citizenship, Giorgio was the son of Italo Santelli, … - William Rutherford Mead
William Rutherford Mead (1846 - 1928) was an American architect, a part of the McKim, Mead, and White firm. He was born in Brattleboro, Vermont. His sister, Elinor, later married novelist William Dean Howells, and his younger brother Larkin Goldsmith Mead became a sculptor. William graduated from Amherst College in 1867, and later studied under Russell Sturgis in New York City. - Archduke Georg Of Austria
Archduke Georg of Austria ("Paul Georg Maria Joseph Dominikus von Habsburg-Lothringen") Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, (16 December 1964 -) was born in Starnberg, the second son, and seventh and youngest child of Otto, Crown Prince of Austria and Regina, Crown Princess of Austria. He married Duchess "Eilika" Helene Jutta Clementine of Oldenburg (b. - Tue Bjørn Thomsen
Tue Bjørn Thomsen was a professional boxer from Denmark, whose best performance as an amateur was winning the bronze medal at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Born in Egedesminde, Greenland, he made his professional debut in late 1997. On March 31, 2000 he won the vacant IBC Super Cruiserweight Title by defeating Nate Miller of the United States, in the Esbjerg Stadionhal in Esbjerg, Denmark. - Csaba Elthes
"Maestro" Csaba Elthes was a legendary fencing master who immigrated to the U.S. to become the coach to the U.S. Olympic Bronze Medalist in 1984, Peter Westbrook. He was born March 10, 1912. Elthes trained many olympic competitors in the 1960's through 1980's, and made his home in New York City. He had earlier earned a degree in law from University of Budapest in 1936. Elthes died of a stroke in 1995 when visiting his home city of Budapest, Hungary. - Eve Boswell
Eve Boswell (b. Eva Keleti, 11 May 1922, Budapest, Hungary - d. 14 August 1998, Durban, South Africa) was a successful pop singer in Britain in the 1950s. She was born in Hungary to professional musician parents who toured worldwide. Educated in Switzerland, she studied piano before joining her parents on tour as The Three Hugos. When the Second World War was declared, the family left England with the Boswell Circus. - Pete Gogolak
Peter Kornel Gogolak (born April 18, 1942 in Budapest, Hungary) is a retired American football kicker. Gogolak was signed out of Cornell University by the American Football League's Buffalo Bills in 1964, becoming another example of innovation in the AFL, as professional football's first "soccer style" (as opposed to "conventional" kicker. Prior to Gogolak, placekickers approached the ball straight on, with the toe making first contact with the ball. - Jean-Paul Mendy
Jean-Paul Mendy (born December 14, 1973) is a professional boxer from France, who won the bronze medal in the middleweight division (75 kg) at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the first round by Germany's Sven Ottke on points (4-11). Mendy made his professional debut on December 22, 2000, …
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