The following is a list of famous people of
Hungarian
origin.
- Béla Bartók, composer.
- Zoltán Kodály, composer.
- Ferenc Liszt, composer.
- György Ligeti, composer.
- Count Miklós Zrínyi, (1508-1566), Hungarian militant and hero defended against Ottoman Turks.
- Count Miklos Zrinyi, (1620-1664), Hungarian warrior, statesman and poet.
- Ferenc Puskas, football player, center forward.
- Imre Kertész, writer, Nobel Prize winner in 2002.
- Albert Szent-Györgyi, chemist, Nobel Prize winner in 1937.
- Paul Erdös, mathematician.
- John von Neumann (Neumann János), mathematician.
- Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes), Nobel-prize winner physicist, inventor of holography.
- Eugene Wigner, physicist, mathematician.
- Leo Szilard, physicist.
- Edward Teller, physicist.
- Janos Bolyai, mathematician, dicoverer of non-Euclidean geometry.
- Ottó Bláthy, engineer.
- Miksa Déri, engineer.
- Károly Zipernowsky, engineer.
- Donát Bánki, engineer.
- Tódor Kármán, engineer.
- Kálmán Kandó[?], engineer.
See also: List of people by nationality