- Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period. He was a renowned performer throughout Europe during the 19th century, noted especially for his showmanship and great skill with the piano. Today, he is considered to be one of the greatest pianists in history, despite the fact that no recordings of his playing exist. Liszt is frequently credited with re-defining piano playing itself, and his influence is still visible today, … - Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. He is considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and was also one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology, the study and ethnography of folk music. - 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, … - 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, … - Sandra Shine
Sandra Shine is a Hungarian adult film actress who first appeared in "Penthouse" magazine under the pseudonym of Judith Devine in 2001. She started calling herself "Sandra" in honor of an old girlfriend. - Rita Faltoyano
Rita Faltoyano (born Rita Gacs on August 5, 1978 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born porn star. She grew up on a farm outside of Budapest with her godparents. It was there that she learned to ride horses and eventually began riding at competition level. In addition to being a champion equestrian she is also a gymnast and swimmer. - Imre Nagy
Imre Nagy was a Hungarian politician, appointed Prime Minister of Hungary on two occasions. Nagy's second term ended when his non-Soviet-backed government was brought down by Soviet invasion in the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, resulting in Nagy's execution on charges of treason two years later. - Anita Dark
Anita Dark (born April 11, 1975) is a Hungarian pornographic actress. Her earlier work featured her with black hair, hence her name (as opposed to fellow Hungarian porn actress Anita Blonde, who usually had blonde hair). She used to work as a model in Budapest where she was crowned as "Miss Budapest" in 1994. According to the Internet Movie Database, Dark's real name is Anita Perger. As seen in the Private video "Casting X 7", … - Sophie Moone
Sophie Moone is a Hungarian porn actress and Internet nude model noted for her lesbian roles both in pornographic movies and in photoshoots. - Mya Diamond
Mya Diamond (born April 11, 1981) is a Hungarian porn actress, who starred in the high-budget movie Porn Wars. - Simony Diamond
Simony Diamond (born July 21 1983) is a pornographic actress and Internet nude model from Budapest, Hungary. Pseudonyms she uses include Simony, Simona, Henrietta, and Heny. Simony Diamond began acting in adult films in 2003 and has often appeared with Sandra Shine in scenes for Denys Defrancesco and 21Sextury.com Productions. Much of her work includes anal sex and double penetration. - Dora Venter
Dora Venter is the most popular pseudonym of a Hungarian pornographic film actress. She was born October 1, 1976 in a village in northern Hungary. She moved to Budapest, and studied to be a nurse, receiving her CCRN (critical care registered nurse) certificate in 1998. She auditioned for pornography in late April 1999, and shot her first films several weeks afterwards, her second at the Cannes Hot D'Or. This was initially intended to supplement her low pay as a nurse, … - Elie Wiesel
Eliezer Wiesel, KBE (commonly known as Elie Wiesel, born September 30, 1928) is a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is "Night", a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. - Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály, (approximate pronunciation, Zol-tan Koddah-ee) (December 16, 1882 - March 6, 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist and philosopher. Though born in Kecskemét, Kodály spent most of his childhood in Galánta and Nagyszombat (now Trnava, Slovakia). His father was a stationmaster and keen amateur musician, and Kodály learned to play the violin as a child. He also sang in a cathedral choir and wrote music, … - John von Neumann
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., United States) was a Austria-Hungary-born American mathematician who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, economics, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), … - Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti, KBE (pronounced) (21 October, 1912 - 5 September, 1997) was a world-renowned Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. - Mandy Bright
Mandy Bright (born on April 12, 1978) is a Hungarian pornographic actress and director. Mandy made her debut in adult films in 2001 at the age of 22 in "Christoph Clark's Beautiful Girls 4". "No limits," she says, during the behind the scenes footage for 2003's "Anal Expedition". Mandy Bright won the 2004 AVN Award for "Female Foreign Performer of the Year". - Sophie Evans
Sophie Evans is a Hungarian pornographic actress. At the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival, Evans won the jury award for "Best Actress" in 2001 and the audience award for "Best Actress" in 2003. - Lajos Kossuth
Lajos "Louis" Kossuth (Monok, September 19, 1802-Turin, March 20, 1894) was a Hungarian lawyer, politician and Regent-President of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1849. He was widely honoured during his lifetime, including in the United Kingdom and the United States, as a freedom fighter. - Claudia Ferrari
Claudia Ferrari (born February 16, 1977) is a Hungarian pornographic actress. To date she has starred in more than 60 movies. She is famous for performing anal sex and, in her movies, most scenes involve two men, so they are able to perform double penetration, both anal and vaginal sex at the same time. She has a large natural bust, but this has been disputed. Most fans though, agree that she has a normal natural size of her bust. - 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. - Anita Blond
Anita Blond (born May 27 1976, in Budapest, Hungary) is a former pornographic actress. She has started her career as a "Penthouse" model, then in 1995 with some acts for the Private Media Group. She also modeled concurrently with her adult film career, modeling for such magazines like "Perfect 10". She left the porn industry in 2001, starring in an estimated 100 movies. - Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Ormandy (November 18, 1899 - March 12, 1985) was an eminent conductor and violinist. - Monica Sweet
Monica Sweet (born Monica Nagy is a Hungarian porn actress and Internet nude model noted for her lesbian roles both in pornographic movies and in photoshoots. Other pseudonyms commonly used by her include most notably Jo but also as Monica Sweet, Moniq, Monika, Monika N., Josie, Dana, and Juliana Sage. - Edward Teller
Edward Teller (original Hungarian name "Teller Ede") (January 15 1908 - September 9 2003) was a Austria-Hungary-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb." Teller immigrated to the United States in the 1930s, and was an early member of the Manhattan Project charged with developing the first atomic bombs. During this time he made a serious push to develop the first fusion-based weapons as well, … - Szilvia Lauren
Szilvia Lauren is a Hungarian Model & Porn Actress She made her Adult film debut in the 1995, She had decided to retire by 2003 - 2004 to have a child. She soon came back on the scene in 2005 in some Viv Thomas movies and has been active in many other European productions since then. - 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. - Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész (born November 9, 1929) is a Jewish Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". Kertész' best-known work, Fatelessness ("Sorstalanság"), describes the experience of a fifteen-year-old boy in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeitz. - György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti was a Jewish Hungarian composer born in Romania who later became an Austrian citizen. Many of his works are well known in classical music circles, but among the general public, he is probably best known for his opera "Le Grand Macabre" and the various pieces which feature prominently in the Stanley Kubrick films "2001: A Space Odyssey", "The Shining", and "Eyes Wide Shut". - Theodor Herzl
Benjamin Ze'ev (Theodor) Herzl) (May 2, 1860 - July 3, 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist who founded modern political Zionism. Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary, but his family moved to Vienna when Theodor was 18. There, he studied law, but he devoted himself almost exclusively to journalism and literature, working as a correspondent for the "Neue Freie Presse" in Paris, occasionally making special trips to London and Istanbul. - Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest - March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. He wrote journalism, novels, social philosophy, and books on scientific subjects. In 1931, he joined the Communist Party of Germany, but left the party seven years later, after emigrating to the United Kingdom. By the late 1940s, he was one of the most recognized and outspoken British anti-communists, … - Lara Stevens
Lara Stevens is a Hungarian adult film actress. She has used the following names in her films: Laura, Lara, Maria, Marchie, Laura Stevens, Linda Leggins. - Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely (9 April, 1906, Pécs - 15 March, 1997, Paris) was a French Hungarian-born artist often acclaimed as the father of Op-art. Working as a graphic artist in the 1930s he created what is considered the first Op-art piece - "Zebra", consisting of curving black and white stripes, indicating the direction his work would take. Over the next two decades, Vasarely developed his style of geometric abstract art. - 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, … - Fritz Reiner
Frederick Martin “Fritz” Reiner was one of the great international conductors of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century. - Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 - October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism. - Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 - April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the US, among the best-known being "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Angels with Dirty Faces", "Casablanca", "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "White Christmas". He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s and 40s, where he gained a reputation for efficient competence, … - Otto von Habsburg
Otto, Crown Prince of Austria or Otto von Habsburg (born 20 November, 1912 as "Archduke Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius of Austria") is the current head of the Habsburg family and the eldest son of Karl of Austria, the last Emperor of Austria and last King of Hungary, and his wife, Zita of Bourbon-Parma. - George Szell
George Szell (June 7, 1897 - July 30, 1970), originally György Széll or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer. He is remembered today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, and for the recordings of the standard classical repertoire he made in Cleveland and with other orchestras. Szell came to Cleveland in 1946 to take over a respected, but undersized, … - Cristina Bella
Cristina Bella (born November 29, 1981 in Kecskemet, Hungary) is a Hungarian pornographic actress. She shot her first scene in February 2000 for Pierre Woodman's "Private Castings X #24". In 2004, she was awarded the Hungarian Porn Oscar for "Most Erotic Pornstar" and the Venus Award (Germany) for "Best new starlet female". She is represented by Bella Model Agency (Hungary).
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