- Tim Brabants
Tim Brabants (born 23 January 1977 in Chertsey) is a British flatwater canoeist who won the individual kayak 1000m (k1) bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics. He went on to become K-1 1000m European champion at Szeged, Hungary in 2002, the first time a British paddler had won the blue riband event. The 2004 Olympics however were a disappointment.
- Tim Wieskötter
Tim Wieskötter, born 12 March 1979 in Emsdetten) is a German flatwater canoer, and current (2006) world champion in both the K-2 Kayak 200m and 500m events. Wieskötter won a bronze medal in the K-2 500m at the Sydney Olympics with team-mate Ronald Rauhe. Since then they have completely dominated the event, winning the major race of the season every year - four world championships (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006) and the Olympic gold medal at Athens in 2004.
- István Bethlen
Count István Bethlen de Bethlen, was a Hungarian aristocrat and statesman and served as Prime Minister from 1921 to 1931. The scion of a noble Transylvanian family, Bethlen was elected to the Hungarian parliament as a Liberal in 1901. Later, he served as a representative of the new Hungarian government at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. In that year, the weak centrist Hungarian government collapsed, and was soon replaced by a communist Hungarian Soviet Republic, …
- Stefan Holtz
Stefan Holtz is a German flatwater canoer and current (2006) world and European champion. A junior European champion from 1998 (C2 1000m with Thomas Lueck), Holtz is best-known as a member of the successful Germany four-man Canadian canoe crew. In 2005 in Poznań, Poland they became European champions in the C4 1000m and won two bronze medals (C4 200m and C4 500m.
- Mihály Babits
Mihály Babits de Szentistván [pronounced: Mihaai Babich de Saintishtwaan]] (November 26, 1883 in Szekszárd - August 4, 1941 in Budapest) was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator. He studied at the University of Budapest from 1901 to 1905, where he met Dezső Kosztolányi and Gyula Juhász. He worked to become a teacher and taught at schools in Baja (1905-1906), Szeged (1906-1908), Fogaras (1908-1911), Újpest (1911), and Budapest (1912-1918).
- Thomas Lück
Thomas Lück, born 29 January 1981 in (East) Berlin, is a German flatwater canoer and current (2006) world and European champion. A junior world champion from 1998 (C2 1000m with Stefan Holtz), Lück won three medals at the 2004 European Under-23 Championships in Poznań, including the C2 1000m gold with Stephan Breuing.
- Norman Bröckl
Norman Bröckl, is a German flatwater canoer and former world champion. Bröckl enjoyed great success as a junior. At the 2003 Junior World Championships in Komatsu, Japan he won a K2 1000m gold medal (partnering Lieven Spur) and the individual K1 500m silver medal, behind Portugal's Emanuel Silva. In 2004 he dominated the Junior European Championships, winning three gold medals (K1 500m, K1 1000mm and K4 500m).
- Gyula Gömbös
Gyula Gömbös de Jákfa (Hungarian: "Vitéz* jákfai Gömbös Gyula"; December 26, 1886 - October 6, 1936) was the conservative Prime Minister of Hungary from 1932 to 1936. <small>*:"The Vitézi Rend is a Hungarian order (which still exists); vitéz means "valiant"."<big> Born in Murga, Austria-Hungary, Gömbös entered the Austro-Hungarian Army at a young age and quickly became a member of the officer corps, …
- Eirik Verås Larsen
Eirik Verås Larsen is a Norwegian kayak paddler in flatwater races. He has won a total of five world championship gold medals. Larsen won the olympic gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the K1 1000 m event. Less than an hour later he won another medal, a bronze medal in the K2 1000 m event together with Nils Olav Fjeldheim. Larsen has also won a world championship in the K1 1000 m event in 2002, and three world championships together with Nils Olav Fjeldheim, …
- Ben Fouhy
Ben Fouhy (born 4 March, 1979, Taumarunui) is New Zealand's top flatwater canoer. In 2003 he became individual kayak (K1) 1000m world champion at Gainesville, USA. This was the first time a New Zealander had won canoeing's blue riband event since their heyday of the 1980's. He won a silver medal in the K1 1000m at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Fouhy had a disappointing world championships in 2005, finishing off the podium for the first time.
- Karen Furneaux
Karen Furneaux is a Canadian kayaker. She began kayaking at age 12, and is a student at Dalhousie University. She finished in 5th place at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the women's K2 500 m event, and has won two world championship gold medals, the first in K2 200 m in 1998 in Szeged, Hungary. The Second coming in the K1 200 m in 2001 in Poznań, Poland. She has also won two silver medals at world championships, the first in 1997 in the K4 200 m in Dartmouth, …
- Vilmos Zsigmond
Vilmos Zsigmond is a Hungarian-American cinematographer. He was born in Szeged, Hungary, and studied cinema at the State Academy of Theatre and Film Art in Budapest. Together with his friend and fellow student László Kovács, he filmed the events of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Budapest and then smuggled the film out of the country shortly afterwards. In 1962 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
- Adam Wysocki
Adam Wysocki is a Polish flatwater canoer. A consistent competitor at the highest level since the mid-nineties he has won two world championship gold medals in the K-2 kayak. In 1994 he and teammate Maciej Freimut won the K-2 200m, the first time the sprint event had been included in the world championships. In the 1996 Atlanta Olympics they reached the K-2 500m final, finishing fifth. Wysocki was also a member of Poland's K-4 1000m team, …
- Gyula Károlyi
Gyula Count Károlyi de Nagykároly was a conservative Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1931 to 1932. He had previously been Prime Minister of the counter-revolutionary government in Szeged for several months in 1919. As Prime Minister, he generally tried to continue the moderate conservative policies of his predecessor, István Bethlen, although with less success.
- András Róna-Tas
András Róna-Tas is a Hungarian historian and linguist. He was born in 1931 in Budapest. Róna-Tas studied under such preeminent professors as Gyula Ortutay, István Tálasi, Gyula Németh and Lajos Ligeti and received a degree in folklore and eastern linguistics In 1957 and 1958 he conducted anthropological fieldwork in Mongolia, studying the culture, language, and folklore of the nomadic tribes in that country.
- Stephan Breuing
Stephan Breuing (born 21 September 1985 in Bochum) is a German flatwater canoer and current (2006) world and European champion in the Canadian canoe C4 1000m. At the age of just fifteen, competing against athletes up to three years older, Breuing won two gold medals at the 2001 World Junior Championships in Curitiba, Brazil. His victories in the C2 500m (partnering Tomasz Wylenzek) and C4 1000m made him the youngest champion since Ronald Rauhe.
- Tomasz Mendelski
Tomasz Mendelski (born 21 May 1981 in Olsztyn) is a Polish flatwater canoer. Mendelski has represented Poland in both the K1 200 m and 500 m but specialises in the individual 200 m kayak sprint, the shortest race-distance. At the world championships he finished 6th (2001), 4th (2002) and 6th (2003) before finally making the podium at the 2005 worlds in Zagreb, Croatia, where he won the silver medal. He also won the bronze medal at the 2004 European Championships in Poznań, …
- Imre Szabics
Imre Szabics is a Hungarian football striker. He was born in Szeged and started to play football at local club Szeged LC in 1990, spending five years with the club before leaving it for Ferencvárosi TC in 1995. He started his professional career at the latter club in 1998 and went on to move after one season to Austrian Bundesliga side Sturm Graz, where he played in the following four seasons.
- Marián Ostrčil
Marián Ostrčil is an athlete from Slovakia. He competes in flatwater canoeing. In 1998, in Nyköping, Sweden, he became European junior champion in the individual Canadian canoe (C-1) 500m. In 2002 he won the European under-23 championship in Zagreb, Croatia in the same event. In 2003 he reached the 200m final at the senior World Championships at Gainesville, USA, finishing in sixth place.
- Ken Wallace
Ken (Kenneth) Wallace, born 26 July 1983 in Gosford, New South Wales, is an Australian flatwater canoer. Wallace originally competed in Ironman events and only switched to sprint racing at the age of sixteen. Two years later he was individual kayak (K1) 1000m junior world champion in Curitiba, Brazil. In 2006, with Australian number one Nathan Baggaley serving a drugs ban, Wallace was selected to represent Australia at the world championships in Szeged, Hungary.
- Maxim Opalev
Maxim Opalev (born 4 April 1979 in Volgograd) is an athlete from Russia, who competes in flatwater canoeing. Opalev participated in two Summer Olympics (2000 and 2004), and came home with a medal each time. He is a current (2006) World and European champion. Opalev's potential was evident when he won two gold medals as a sixteen-year-old at the 1995 World Junior Championships in Yamanashi, Japan.
- Emanuel Silva
Emanuel Silva (born 4 December 1985 in Braga) is a Portuguese flatwater canoer. A finalist at the 2004 Olympics, he is Portugal's most successful kayak sprinter since the 1980's. Despite training with very limited resources, Silva became outright Portuguese individual champion over three distances (500m, 1000m and 10,000m) at the age of just sixteen. In 2003 he starred at the world junior championships in Komatsu, Japan, …
- Petr Procházka
Petr Procházka is a Czech flatwater canoer and current (2006) world champion in the Canadian canoe C4 200m. World junior champion in Belgrade in 1982, Procházka missed the 1984 Olympics because of the Eastern Bloc's boycott but went on to win two medals at the 1987 senior World Championships in Duisburg, Germany. In the individual C1 500m he was the silver medallist. He also won a bronze medal in the C2 500m with partner Alan Lohniský.
- Caroline Brunet
Caroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian kayaker, who competed in five Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1988. She began kayaking at age eleven. She has won two silver medals at the Olympics in the women's K1 500 m event (in 1996 and 2000) and a bronze in the same event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. On top of that, she has won ten world championship golds, seven silvers and four bronze medals: *1993 in Copenhagen, …
- Róbert Erban
Róbert Erban is a Slovakian flatwater canoer and current (2006) world champion in the kayak K4 500m. A regular finalist at world and European championships since the early nineties Erban competed in three Olympic Games (1992,1996 and 2000) and was unlucky to finish in fourth place twice.
- Silviu Simioncencu
Silviu Simioncencu is a Romanian flatwater canoer and three-time world champion in the Canadian canoe events. He won his first major title at the European championships in 2002, winning the C2 1000m final with Florin Popescu. In 2003 they became world champions at Gainesville, USA. Simioncencu was also a member of Romania's C4 500m crew which crossed the line second but was later awarded the gold medal after Russian Sergey Ulegin failed a drugs test.
- Gábor Kucsera
Gábor Kucsera, born 27 August 1982 in Budapest, is a Hungarian flatwater canoer and current (2006) world and European champion. Kucsera won titles consistently as he moved up through the age categories. In 2000 he was a gold medallist in the K2 kayak 1000m at the European Junior Championships in Boulogne, France. He then won a silver medal in the individual (K1) 1000m at the 2002 European under-23 championships in Zagreb, Croatia, …
- Karl Kerényi
One of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology, Karl (Carl, Károly) Kerényi was born in Temesvár and then lived in Hungary. His was a family of some landed property. At the University of Budapest he followed a program in classical philology with a doctorate on Plato and Longinus and aesthetic theory in Antiquity, and read widely. In the following years he taught in Hungary at the secondary school level, …
- Jenő Huszka
Jenő Huszka was a Hungarian composer of operettas. He was born in Szeged, 24 April, 1875 and died in Budapest, 2 February, 1960. At five years old, he had his first performance - nicely played violin. He studied composition at the Academy of Music (Zeneakadémia) in Budapest. As a young man (in 1896) he was a member of the Lamoureux Orchestra in Paris. He also had to study law (this was the wish of his parents).
- Willy Pogany
William Andrew ("Willy") Pogany (1882-1955), prolific illustrator of children's and adult books. Born Vilmos Andreas Pogany in Szeged, Hungary in 1882, came to America via Paris and London. In London, he produced his four masterpieces, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1910), Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser" (1911), "Parsifal" (1912) and "Lohengrin" (1913). Mr.
- Julio Baghy
Julio Baghy (13 January 1891, Szeged - 18 March 1967, Budapest) was a Hungarian actor and one of the leading authors of the Esperanto movement. He is the author of several famous novels but it is particularly in the field of poetry that he proved his mastery of Esperanto.
- Pál Sarudi
Pál Sarudi is a flatwater canoer from Hungary, competing/competed in the Canadian canoe events. His first major success came at the 2003 European Marathon Championships in Gdańsk, Poland, where he won the C2 bronze medal with partner Krisztian Tokar. Since then he has concentrated on the sprint events. In 2005 he won a C4 1000m bronze medal at the European Under-23 Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
- Daniel Jędraszko
Daniel Jędraszko is a Polish flatwater canoer who has been world champion four times in the Canadian canoe C-2 event with partner Paweł Baraszkiewicz. They also won a C-2 500m silver medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. The same year Jedrasko won his only European title to date (again in the C-2 5000m). However at the 2004 Athens games they underperformed and came away without a medal.
- Michael Kolganov
Michael Kolganov is an Israeli flatwater canoer and former world champion. Born "Mikhail" Kolganov in the former Soviet Union, he took up canoeing at the age of 14. “I was a fat young boy,” he recalled, “and my parents were looking for a hobby for me that would help me lose weight.” Kolganov’s older brother Andrei was already a Soviet youth champion in kayaks, and represented the former Soviet Union. He was brought to Israel by the Jewish Agency in 1995.
- Alajos Stróbl
Alajos Stróbl(1856 - 1926) was a Hungarian sculptor and artist. His work can be best characterized with sensitive realistic modelling and he became one of the most renowned sculptors of memorials in Hungary at the turn of the 20th century. Strobl was a pupil of K. Zumbusch between 1876 and 1880. He was a young sculptor when his statue Perseus (1882) gained him widespread attention in Hungary.
- János Pásztor
János Pásztor was a renowned Hungarian academic sculptor in the first decades of the 20th century. Pásztor learned sculptural arts in the School of Arts and Crafts ("Iparművészeti Iskola", today Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) in Budapest. He was a pupil of Lajos Mátrai. His first works were the side figures of the Pál Vásárhelyi Monument in Szeged. In 1903 he got a fellowship in Paris.
- Paul Hartal
Paul Hartal is a Canadian painter and poet, born in Szeged, Hungary. He has created the term "Lyrical Conceptualism" to characterize his style in both painting and poetry, and has created a manifesto to describe his thesis.
- Đura Jakšić
Đura Jakšić was a Serbian poet, painter, narrator, play writer, bohemian, and patriot. Jakšić was born in Srpska Crnja. His house is today Memorial Museum that still stands in his honour. He obtained his early education in Timişoara (now in Romania) and Segedin (now in Hungary). Đura Jakšić had studied fine arts in Vienna and Műnchen. Jakšić belongs to the most expressive representatives of Serbian romanticism.
- Adam Seroczyński
Adam Seroczyński is a Polish flatwater canoer. He is a former European champion and Olympic bronze medallist. Seroczyński achieved his greatest success as a member of Poland's K4 kayak 1000m crew. In 1997 he was a double European silver medallist in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (K4 200m and 1000m). This was followed by a K4 1000m European gold medal in Zagreb, Croatia in 1999 and an Olympic bronze medal at the Sydney Olympics.
- László Baky
László Baky was a leading member of the Hungarian Nazi movement that flourished before and during World War II. A military academy graduate, he came to prominence in Szeged in 1919 for his violent counterrevolutionary work and rose through the ranks to become one of the leading figures in the Gendarmerie. A member of several far right groups hew finally left the gendarmes in 1938 (as a Major-General) to join the Hungarian National Socialist Party, …