- George Soros
George Soros (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He peacefully promotes democracy in Eastern Europe. Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. His support for the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, …
- Ferenc Puskás
Ferenc Puskás, as Puskás Ferenc or Ferenc Puskas Biro, was a legendary Hungarian footballer and manager, one of the greatest players of all times. He scored 84 goals in 85 internationals for Hungary, and 511 goals in 533 matches in the Hungarian and Spanish leagues. Puskás played for Honvéd and Hungary before joining Real Madrid and going on to play for Spain.
- Eve Angel
Eve Angel (born Eva Dobos on May 19, 1983) is a Hungarian porn actress and model. Other stage names commonly used by her include Eve, Katie, and Severine. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Angel is the middle child in her family. She has a younger sister and an older brother, with whom she manages a design company. During her career, Angel has been photographed and filmed by Andrew Youngman, John Walton, …
- Alfréd Hajós
Alfréd Hajós was an Hungarian swimmer and architect. He was the first modern Olympic swimming champion. He was born in Budapest, Hungary as Arnold Guttmann. He was 13 years old when he felt compelled to become a good swimmer after his father drowned in the Danube River, and then took the name Hajós (sailor in Hungarian) for his athletic career because it was an Hungarian name.
- Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 - October 311926), whose real name was Ehrich Weiss (which was changed from Erich Weisz when he emigrated to America), was a Hungary-born American magician, escapologist (widely regarded as one of the greatest ever), stunt performer, as well as an investigator of spiritualists, film producer, actor, and an amateur aviator.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gábor is a Hungarian-American actress and socialite.
- István Szabó
István Szabó is both the best-known and one of the most critically acclaimed Hungarian film directors of the past few decades. In the 1960s and '70s he directed auteur films in Hungarian, which explore his own generation's experiences and recent Hungarian history ("Father", in Hungarian: "Apa" (1966); "Lovefilm", in Hungarian: "Szerelmesfilm" (1970); "25 Fireman's street", in Hungarian: "Tűzoltó utca 25." (1973)).
- Tera Bond
Tera Bond (also known as Samanta) is a porn star and nude model. She was born in Budapest, Hungary on August 20, 1978.
- Ferenc Molnár
Ferenc Molnár was one of the greatest Hungarian dramatists and novelists of the 20th century. His Americanized name is Franz Molnar. He emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazi persecution of Hungarian Jews during World War II. As a novelist, Molnár is remembered principally for "The Paul Street Boys" which tells the story of two rival gangs of youths in Budapest. The novel is a classic of youth literature, …
- Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi is a computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship office applications. He now heads his own company, "Intentional Software", with the aim of developing and marketing his concept of Intentional programming. In 2007, he became the fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian in space. His estimated net worth is $1 billion.
- 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".
- Miklós Rózsa
Miklós Rózsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungarian-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic "Ben-Hur".
- Krisztina Egerszegi
Krisztina Egerszegi (born August 16, 1974) is a Hungarian former swimmer, one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era.
- Eva Gabor
Eva Gabor (in Hungarian Gábor Éva was a British-Hungarian actress. She was born in Budapest, the daughter of Vilmos and Jolie Gabor (née Janka Tilleman). Her elder sisters were Magda Gabor and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Gabor's maternal family was Jewish and her maternal grandparents died in the Holocaust. Biographers speculate that her paternal family were originally Jewish as well, but converted to Roman Catholicism in order to assimilate, …
- George de Hevesy
George Charles de Hevesy (born as Hevesy György, also known as Georg Karl von Hevesy was a Hungarian physical chemist who was important in the development of the "tracer method" where radioactive tracers are used to study chemical processes, e.g., the metabolism of animals. For this he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943. When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, …
- László Papp
László Papp was a Hungarian boxer, born in 1926, in Budapest. He won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics, in Helsinki and the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. In his final Olympic competition, he beat José Torres for the gold medal, to become the first boxer in Olympic history to win three successive gold medals. Papp, despite having hand trouble, turned professional in 1957, …
- Dennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor, FRS, (June 5, 1900, Budapest - February 9, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Andrew Grove
Dr. Andrew Stephen Grove (born 1936-09-02) is a Hungarian-American businessman. He participated in the founding of Intel and was key to the company's success.
- István Kovács
István Kovács is a Hungarian boxer.
- Nándor Hidegkuti
Nándor Hidegkuti was a Hungarian footballer and manager. He played as a forward and spent the majority of his playing career at MTK Hungária FC. During the 1950s he was also a prominent member of the legendary Hungary team known as the "Mighty Magyars". Other members of the team included Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis and József Bozsik. In 1953, playing as a "deep lying centre-forward", …
- Péter Nádas
Péter Nádas is a Hungarian writer, playwright, essayist.
- Magda Gabor
Magda Gabor (June 11, 1914 - June 6, 1997) was a Hungarian-American entertainer born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (modern day Hungary). Other than an appearance in a Hungarian movie made before the family emigrated to the U.S. in the 1940s, her roles were mostly limited to television portrayals of herself as one of the Gabor sisters. Contrary to popular belief, Magda never competed in the Olympics. This rumor was derived from her intimidating/rough sounding name.
- Egon Ronay
Egon Ronay (born 24 July 1915) is a Hungarian food critic who wrote and published a famous series of food guides in Britain in the 1950s. Ronay was born in Budapest and, after his wealthy father lost his substantial estate to the Russians after World War II, emigrated to England alone on October 10, 1946. His father's contacts arranged for him to manage a restaurant in Piccadilly. Later he took over his own 39-seater restaurant near Harrods called the Marquee, …
- Greta Arn
Greta Arn (born April 13, 1979; in Budapest, Hungary) is a professional tennis player from Germany. In her career she won four ITF titles in singles and in doubles; she also won her first WTA title in Estoril, in Portugal, on May 6, 2007. Her career high on WTA rankings was No.81, on July 22, 2002. She won her first WTA Tour title as a qualifier ranked No.176 in the world, becoming lowest ranked and first qualifier to win a WTA Tour event in 2007.
- Zsolt Erdei
Zsolt Erdei is a boxer in the light heavyweight division. His record is 27-0 (17 KOs). He is the current WBO and linear world light heavyweight champion. Erdei boxed at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the middleweight division. Erdei won the WBO light heavyweight title from Julio César González by unanimous decision on January 17, 2004. Since then, Erdei has successfully defended the title eight times.
- Jolie Gabor
Jolie Gabor Christman de Szigethy (September 29, 1896 - April 1, 1997) was born Jancsi Tilleman ("her name "Jancsi" means "Johnny" in English-her parents wanted a boy) in Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire. She is best known as "Mama Jolie", the mother of Magda Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Eva Gabor, who were famous for their beauty and many marriages. Jolie officially claimed to have been born in 1900, …
- Sandra Brown
Sandra Brown (born 1986) is a Hungarian porn actress. Brown was discovered in a Budapest disco by Zoli and Cameron Cruz. Brown made her first pornographic film in 2005. Brown is noted for her sweet, innocent on-camera demeanor. She frequently performs in scenes featuring double penetration, aggressive anal sex, and golden showers.
- Robert Lantos
Robert Lantos is a film producer
- Lajos Détári
Lajos Détári is a football manager and a retired Hungarian football midfielder. He made his debut for the Hungarian national team in 1984 against Switzerland, and got 61 caps and 13 goals until 1994. He was a participant at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, where Hungary failed to progress from the group stage. Détári did however score one goal in the 2–0 win against Canada. Détári changed in 1987, for two million dollars, …
- Tamás Darnyi
Tamás Darnyi is a Hungarian retired male swimmer. He is considered by many to be the greatest all-round swimmer in history. He won four gold medals at two Olympic Games (1988 and 1992) in the individual medley. He was named Male World Swimmer of the Year in 1987 and 1991 by" Swimming World magazine". <br> <br
- Dezső Szabó
Dezső Szabó is a retired Hungarian decathlete. His son, named Dezső Szabó as well, competed in pole vault at the 2006 Junior World Championships.
- Tamás Deutsch
Tamás Deutsch is a former backstroke swimmer from Hungary, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988. He won a bronze medal over 200 m at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships. Tamas was part of the California Convertible Club from 1992 through 1997.
- Melinda Czink
Melinda Czink is a Hungarian professional female tennis player. On March 1, 2004 Czink reached her "career-high singles ranking": World No. 64. She has reached 1 WTA Tour singles final: 2005 Canberra (lost to Ana Ivanović). On the ITF Tour, she has won an incredible 14 singles titles.
- Hugo Scheiber
Hugo Scheiber is a painter who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1873. At the age of eight, he moved with his family from Budapest to Vienna. There, he worked with his father, a sign painter for the Pratertheatre, Vienna's largest entertainment fair. In 1898, to help support his family after they had returned to Budapest, he started working during the day, attending painting classes at the Commercial Art School in the evening. In 1900, he completed his studies.
- Mickey Hargitay
Mickey Hargitay was an actor and Mr. Universe 1955. He was born Miklós Hargitay in Budapest, Hungary. He also is noted for his marriage to Jayne Mansfield, and as the father of actress Mariska Hargitay.
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy
Steven Ferencz Udvar-Hazy (or Steve Hazy) (born 1946, Budapest, Hungary) is the Chairman and CEO of International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), which is one of the two largest aircraft lessors in the world (the other being GECAS.) As of 2006 he is the 83rd richest American with a net worth of US$3.1 billion. The Udvar-Hazy family came to the United States in 1958, fleeing the Soviet occupation of Hungary. Hazy attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
- János Kovács
János Kovács is a Hungarian footballer, currently playing for Chesterfield.
- Andrea Temesvari
Andrea Temesvari is a former professional tennis player once ranked as high as number 3 in the world. She was a teenage phenom, winning the Italian Open at sixteen, but injuries later hampered her career. She received the "Most Improved Player Award" by WTA Tour and TENNIS Magazine in 1982. At the 1986 French Open she won the Women's Doubles title with Martina Navratilova. Temesvári retired in 1997.
- László Cseh
László Cseh, a Hungarian medley and backstroke swimmer, is a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program. He is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall and weighs 82 kg (180 lb). Cseh was born in Budapest and competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He finished third in the Men's 400m Individual Medley at the time of 4:12.15, behind Michael Phelps and Erik Vendt of the USA. On December 8, 2005, in the course Trieste's Winter European Championship, …
- Róbert Berény
Róbert Berény was a Hungarian painter. In 1904, he studied under Tivadar Zemplényi for several months, then he went on to Paris, where he was particularly influenced by Cézanne's art. Berény is best known for his form of expressionism and cubism. His most important work of this period is the portrait of Bartók (1913). That year he also produced "Scene". participated in the art life of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, …