- Matt Cooke
Matt Cooke "Cookie" (born September 7, 1978 in Belleville, Ontario) is a professional ice hockey player. He currently plays for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League, where he has been for his entire NHL career. His playing style has made him effective as a "pest" and he is therefore known for his ability to annoy opposing teams. Prior to his selection Cooke played in the Ontario Hockey League, where he collected 168 points in his 174 career games. - Ferenc Erkel
Ferenc Erkel (November 7, 1810, Gyula - June 25, 1893, Budapest) was a Hungarian composer. He was the father of Hungarian grand opera, written mainly on historical themes, which are still often performed in Hungary. He also composed the music of "Himnusz", the national anthem of Hungary, which was adopted in 1844. The librettos of his first four operas were written by Béni Egressy. Beside the operas, which he is the best known for, he wrote pieces for piano and chorus. - Mihály Vörösmarty
Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungarian poet, was born at Puszta-Nyék, of a noble Roman Catholic family. His father was a steward of the Nádasdys. Mihály was educated at Székesfehérvár by the Cistercians and at Pest by the Piarists. The death of the elder Vörösmarty in 1811 left his widow and numerous family extremely poor. As tutor to the Perczel family, however, Vörösmarty contrived to pay his own way and go through his academical course at Pest. - Lajos Batthyány
Count Lajos Batthyány de Németújvár was from a long line of counts and a descendant of The Capet Kings of France. He was born in Pressburg (now Bratislava, Slovakia), Kingdom of Hungary and died (was executed by firing squad) in Pest, Hungary. Lajos was born in 1807 to a family of wealthy landowners whose noble blood dated back to 1398. - Ferenc Kölcsey
Ferenc Kölcsey was a Hungarian poet, critic and orator. Kölcsey was born in Sződemeter in Transylvania, during the Habsburg Monarchy. He was orphaned at an early age and handicapped by the loss of an eye. In his fifteenth year he made the acquaintance of Ferenc Kazinczy and zealously adopted his linguistic reforms. In 1809 Kölcsey went to Pest and became a notary to the royal board. - József Eötvös
Baron József Eötvös de Vásárosnamény, and during the absence of Andrássy used to preside over the council of ministers; but the labors of the last few years were too much for his failing health, and he died at Pest on the 2nd of February 1871. On May 3 1879 a statue was erected to him at Pest in the square which bears his name. Eötvös occupied as prominent a place in Hungarian literatureas in Hungarian politics. - William Tierney Clark
William Tierney Clark was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges. He was among the earliest designers of suspension bridges. Born in Bristol, he was initially apprenticed to a local millwright and – guided by noted engineers Thomas Telford and John Rennie - he progressed to practice as a consulting civil engineer, moving to London where, from 1811, … - Mihály Munkácsy
Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter, who lived in Paris and earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large scale biblical paintings. Munkácsy was born "Michael von Lieb" to German parents in Munkács, from which he later gathered his pseudonym. After being apprenticed to itinerant painter Elek Szamossy, Munkácsy went to Pest, the capital city, where he sought the patronage of some established artists. - Max Nordau
Max Simon Nordau, born Simon Maximilian Südfeld, Südfeld Simon Miksa in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice president of several Zionist congresses. As a social critic, he wrote a number of controversial books, including "The Conventional Lies of Our Civilisation" (1883), … - Thomas Austin
Thomas Austin was a pioneer settler in Van Diemen’s Land and Winchelsea, Victoria, Australia, and is generally credited with the introduction of rabbits into Australia in 1859. Born at Baltonsborough, Somerset, England, the youngest son of John Austin & Nancy, née Lucas, he arrived with other members of his family in Hobart Town in 1831. - Ödön Lechner
Ödön Lechner (Pest, August 27 1845 – Budapest, June 10 1914) was a Hungarian architect, nicknamed the "Hungarian Gaudí". Lechner was one of the early representatives of the Hungarian National Romanticism movement, related to Art Nouveau and Jugendstil in the rest of Europe, called "szecesszió" in Hungarian. He decorated his buildings with Zsolnay tile patterns inspired by old Magyar and Turkic folk art. The Magyar were a people that came from the east, … - Marc van Montagu
Marc Van Montagu (b.Ghent, 10 November 1933) is a Belgian molecular biologist. He was full Professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at the faculty of Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) and scientific director of the Genetics Department of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). Together with Jozef Schell he founded the biotech company Plant Genetic Systems Inc. - Miklós Barabás
Miklós Barabás was a Hungarian painter. He his mostly known for his portrait paintings. He was born in Kézdimárkosfalva. He spent most of his life in Pest, where he was director of the art society from 1862 until his death. He became a member of Pest's parliament in 1867. He died in Budapest. - Tivadar Puskás
Tivadar Puskás was a Hungarian inventor, telephone pioneer, and inventor of the telephone exchange. His family was part of the Transylvanian nobility. Puskas studied law and later engineering sciences. After living in England and working for the Warnin Railway Construction Company he returned to Hungary. In 1873, on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Vienna, he founded the Puskas Travel Agency, … - Károly Kisfaludy
Károly Kisfaludy (February 5, 1788 Tet - November 21, 1830 Pest) was a Hungarian dramatist, brother of Sándor Kisfaludy. He was founder of the national drama. - Zsigmond Kemény
Baron Zsigmond Kemény was a Hungarian author. He came of a noble but reduced family. In 1837 he studied jurisprudence at Marosvásárhely (present-day Târgu-Mureş, Romania), but soon devoted himself entirely to journalism and literature. His first unfinished work, "On the Causes of the Disaster of Mohács" (1840), attracted much attention. In the same year he studied natural history and anatomy at Vienna University. - Artúr Görgey
Artúr Görgey, was a Hungarian military leader. He was born at Toporcz (present-day Toporec, Slovakia), in Upper Hungary, of a Saxon noble family who were converts to Protestantism. In 1837 he entered the Bodyguard of Hungarian Nobles at Vienna, where he combined military service with a course of study at the university. In 1845, on his father's death, he left the army to study chemistry at the University of Prague, after which he retired to the family estates in Hungary. - Kuthen
Kuthen (variously "Kuthens", "Kotyan", "Koteny", "Kötöny", "Zayhan", or "Jonas") was the Khan of Cumania from about 1192 to 1223. He was deposed from power in that year, but he remained leader of the clan of Kun (or Kuni). At the start of his reign, the Cumans (or Kipchaks), a Turkish people, followed a shamanist religion, but, in 1238, Kuthen led his tribes into Hungary in flight from the advancing Mongol hordes. - Miklós Ligeti
Miklós Ligeti(1871 Pest - 1944 Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor and artist. His sculptural style integrated elements of impressionism and realism. - Franz Xaver von Zach
Baron Franz Xaver von Zach (June 4, 1754-September 2, 1832) was a Hungarian astronomer born at Pest. He served for some time in the Austrian army, and afterwards lived in London from 1783 to 1786 as tutor in the house of the Saxon minister, Count Brühl. In 1786 he was appointed by Ernest II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg director of the new observatory on the Seeberg at Gotha, which was finished in 1791. - József Bajza
József Bajza was a Hungarian poet and critic. He was born at Szücsi and was first published in Kisfaludy's "Aurora", a literary paper he edited from 1830 to 1837. He also contributed substantially to the "Kritische Blätter", the "Athenaeum", and the "Figyelmező" (Observer). His reviews of dramatic art were considered the best of these miscellaneous writings. In 1830 he published translations of some foreign dramas, … - József Kármán
József Kármán, sentimentalist Hungarian author, was born at Losonc (today Lučenec in Slovakia) in 1769, the son of a Calvinist pastor. He was educated at Losonc and Pest, whence he migrated to Vienna. There he made the acquaintance of the beautiful and eccentric Countess Markovics, who was for a time his mistress, but she was not, as has often been supposed, the heroine of his famous novel "Fanni hagyományai" ("Fanny's testament"). - János Garay
János Garay was a Hungarian poet and author, was born in Szekszárd, in the county of Tolna. From 1823 to 1828 he studied at Fünfkirchen, and subsequently, in 1829, at the University of Pest. In 1834 he brought out an heroic poem, in hexameters, under the title "Csatár". Garay was an energetic journalist, and in 1838 he moved to Pressburg, where he edited the political journal "Hírnök" (Herald). He returned to Pest (now Budapest) in 1839, … - Miklós Izsó
Miklós Izsó(1831 Disznóshorvát - 1875 Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor. His sculptural style integrated elements of classicism and academic style. Izsó studied at the College in Sárospatak from 1840. He took part in the war of independence in 1848-49. After the capitulation of Világos, he lived in exile. He became a stone-cutter in Rimaszombat from 1851 to 1856 where he was a pupil of István Ferenczy. He moved to Pest in 1856. - Ábrahám Ganz
Ábrahám Ganz (November 6, 1815, Unter-Embrach - December 15, 1867, Pest) was a Swiss-born Hungarian iron manufacturer, machine and technical engineer, father of the Ganz companies. On 1844, he opened an ironworks in Buda. His company produced various technical devices based on his patents. He committed suicide in 1867. András Mechwart continued his work at the company. With his lead it became one of the most prominent companies in Austria-Hungary after 1869. - András Fáy
András Fáy was a Hungarian poet and author. He was born at Kohány in the county of Zemplén, and was educated for the law at the Protestant college of Sárospatak. His "Mesék" (Fables), the first edition of which appeared at Vienna in 1820, evinced his powers of satire and invention, and won him the well-merited applause of his countrymen. These fables, which, on account of their originality and simplicity, caused Fay to be regarded as the Hungarian Aesop, … - Jenő Hubay
Jenő Hubay (September 15 1858, Pest - March 12 1937) was an Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher. - Márk Rózsavölgyi
Márk Rózsavölgyi (born "Mordecai ("Motke") Rosenthal", 1789 Balassagyarmat-January 23, 1848, Pest) was a Hungarian composer and violinist. He has been called "the father of czardas". - Leopold Löw
Leopold Löw (Czernahora, Moravia, May 22, 1811 – Szeged, Hungary, 13 October, 1875) Hungarian rabbi. He received his preliminary education at the "yeshibot" of Trebitsch, Kolín, Leipnik, and Eisenstadt (1824-35), and then studied philology, pedagogics, and Christian theology at the Lyceum of Presburg and at the universities of Pest and Vienna (1835-41). After having been a teacher at Prossnitz, he succeeded to the rabbinate of Gross-Kanizsa (10 September 1841). - Róza Laborfalvi
Róza Laborfalvi Hungarian actress, wife of novelist Mór Jókai. She was the daughter of the actor and theatre director József Benke. She started her career in the Castle Theatre of Buda in 1833. From 1837 she played in the National Theatre of Pest. Many have praised her beautiful alto voice, her looks, her talent for recitation and her expressive glance. On March 15, 1848 she met the writer Mór Jókai at a performance of József Katona's "The Viceroy". - Lázár Mészáros
General Lázár Mészáros (Baja, February 20, 1796 – Eywood, November 16, 1858), was the Minister of War during 1848's Hungarian Revolution. He was born in a noble holder family. His parents died when he was four - he moved from one relative to another. Learned at Baja, Szabadka (today Subotica), Pest and Pécs. Mészáros stopped his law studies and began his military career. In 1813, he became the Lieutenant of one cavalry formation in Bács County. - Eugen Kvaternik
Eugen Kvaternik was a Croatian politician. Krvaternik and Ante Starčević formed the Croatian Party of Rights together. He was born in Zagreb. He was educated in Senj and in Pest. After the abolition of feudalism in 1848 by ban Josip Jelačić, greater freedom from Austria-Hungary was granted. This encouraged proponents of Croatian independence such as Kvaternik. In 1858 he sought help in Russia. - Ludwig Barnay
Ludwig Barnay (1842-1924) was a German actor, born at Pest. He made his debut in 1860 at Trutenau and appeared in Pest the following year, after which he had engagements of varying length in Graz, Mainz, Vienna, Prague, Riga, Leipzig, and Weimar. From 1870 to 1875 he was at the Stadt-Theater of Frankfort-on-the-Main, and for the next five years at that of Hamburg, where he acted as director. He visited London in 1881 with the Meiningen Court Company. - Nancy Rechcigl
Nancy A. Rechcigl is a noted specialist on ornamental plant protection and phytopathology. She was born in Morristown, NJ and is married to soil scientist Jack Rechcigl. She now holds the position of Field Technical Manager of ornamental plants with the Syngenta Professional Products Corp., which has its headquarters in Greensboro, NC. In this role, … - Alexander Asboth
Alexander Sandor Asboth (December 18, 1810 - January 21, 1868) was a military leader best known for his victories as a Union brigadier general during the American Civil War. Asboth was born in Keszthely, Hungary. When Asboth was 8, his family moved to Zombor. Asboth wanted to be a soldier, like his elder brother Lajos, but instead his parents decided he should be an engineer. He studied at the Mining Academy of Selmecbanya and the Institutum Geometricum in Pest. - Julius Leopold Klein
Julius Leopold Klein (1810 - August 2, 1876) was a German writer of Jewish origin born at Miskolc, Hungary. Klein was educated at the gymnasium in Pest, and studied medicine in Vienna and Berlin. After travelling in Italy and Greece, he settled as a man of letters in Berlin, where he remained until his death. He was the author of many dramatic works, among others the historical tragedies "Maria von Medici" (1841), "Luines" (1842), "Zenobia" (1847), … - Gábor Döbrentei
Gábor Döbrentei, Hungarian philologist and antiquary, was born at Nagyszőlős. He completed his studies at the universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig, and was afterwards engaged as a tutor in Transylvania. At this period he originated and edited the Erdlyi Muzeum, which, notwithstanding its important influence on the development of the Magyar language and literature, soon failed for want of support. - Gyula Donáth
Gyula Donáth, was a Hungarian sculptor. He was born in Pest and studied in Vienna with G. Semper. From 1880 onwards he worked in Budapest. His sculptural style integrated elements of classicism and academic as well as the Art Nouveau styles. Much of his output as a sculptor was creating plastic art for tombs, though he also created public monuments for both the Millenium of Hungary (1898) and the Imperial Jubilee, (1908). - Béla Wenckheim
Béla Baron Wenckheim (Pest, February 16, 1811 - Budapest, July 7, 1879) was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister for several months in 1875. - József Szén
József Szén (born 9 July 1805, Pest, Hungary – died 13 January 1857) was a Hungarian chess master. He obtained a law degree and later became the municipal archivist for the city of Pest. He was given the nickname of the Hungarian Philidor. In 1836, Szen beat Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais with 13 wins and 12 losses, no draws in Paris. La Bourdonnais gave odds of pawn and two moves. In 1839, he founded the Budapest Chess Club (Pesti Sakk-kor).
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