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This is a list of Hungarian Jews. There has been a Jewish presence in Hungary since Roman times (bar a brief expulsion during the Black Death). Jews fared particularly well under the Ottoman Empire, and after emancipation in 1867. At its height, the Jewish population of historical Hungary numbered more than 900,000, but the Holocaust and emigration, especially during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, has reduced that to around 100,000, most of whom live in Budapest and its suburbs. Shortcut: WP:-( Vandalism is indisputable bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. ... Shortcut: WP:-( Vandalism is indisputable bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. ... Main article: List of Jews. ... Main article: List of Jews. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... Here is a list of some prominent (non Latin-) Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... Motto Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR) The Roman Empire at its greatest extent. ... It has been suggested that Plague doctor be merged into this article or section. ... Motto دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) Anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Borders in 1680, see: list of territories Capital Söğüt (1299–1326) Bursa (1326–65) Edirne (1365–1453) Constantinople (İstanbul, 1453–1922) Language(s) Ottoman Turkish Government Monarchy [[Category:Former monarchies}}|Ottoman Empire, 1299]] Sultans  - 1281–1326... Dates of Jewish emancipation. ... Cunt BAg Twat Fuk suck my penis ring 0778851865!!!!!!Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... “Shoah” redirects here. ... A memorial statue in Hanko, Finland, commemorating the thousands of emigrants who left the country to start a new life in the United States Emigration is the act of nolan muir the phenomenon of leaving ones native country to settle abroad. ... Combatants Soviet Union ÁVH Hungarian government, various nationalist militias Commanders Yuri Andropov Pál Maléter, Béla Király, Gergely Pongrátz, József Dudás Strength 150,000 troops, 6,000 tanks 100,000+ demonstrators (some later armed), unknown number of soldiers Casualties 720 killed according to official... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...


This is a list of anyone who could be reliably described as "Hungarian" and is of significant Jewish heritage (ethnic or religious). See List of Hungarian Americans for descendents of Hungarian emigres born in America, a significant number of whom are/were of Jewish ancestry. This does not cite its references or sources. ...

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Historical figures

Basch Viktor Vilém, or Victor-Guillaume Basch (August 18, 1863/1865, Budapest - January 10, 1944) was a Hungarian-French Jewish esthetician, politician, president of the Human Rights League (LDH) from 1926 to 1944. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article/section may require removal of excess red links (links to non-existent articles, like this one). ... Hatvany-Deutsch Sándor, báró, or Alexander Deutsch Baron de/von Hatvan (November 17, 1852, Arad - February 18, 1913, Nagysurány) was a Hungarian merchant and financier. ... Ernő Gerő (1898 - 1980) was a Hungarian Communist leader in the period after World War II and briefly leader of Hungary in 1956. ... Theodor Herzl, in his middle age. ... Miklos Kanitz Miklos Samual Kanitz (born 1938) is a Hungarian-Canadian Holocaust survivor living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. ... Rudolf (Resző) Kasztner (1906, Cluj, Transylvania–March 15, 1957, Tel Aviv, Israel) was the head of a small Jewish organization in Budapest, Hungary known as the Zionist Vaad or the Rescue and Relief Committee during the Nazi occupation of Hungary during World War II. Prior to the war, Kasztner was... Béla Kun Béla Kun (born Béla Kohn) (February 20, 1886, in Szilágycseh, today Cehu Silvaniei, Transylvania, Romania, died August 29, 1938 in the Soviet Union) was a Hungarian Communist politician, who ruled Hungary for a brief period in 1919. ... Leo Lánczy (Pest, May 10, 1852–Budapest, January 26, 1921) was a Hungarian deputy and financier. ... Thomas Peter Tom Lantos, Ph. ... Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln (1879-1943) is hard to describe. ... Max Simon Nordau (July 29, 1849 - January 23, 1923), born Simon Maximilian Südfeld, Südfeld Simon Miksa in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. ... Shandor (Alexander) Rado (Hungarian Radó Sandor 5 November 1899, Ujpest – 1981 – Budapest) was a Hungarian-born Soviet military intelligence agent during WWII. Rado was born in a Jewish family in Ujpest near Budapest. ... Portrait of Mátyás Rákosi Mátyás Rákosi (born March 14, 1892 as Mátyás Rosenfeld –February 5, 1971) was a Hungarian politician and the leader of Hungary from 1945 to 1956 through his post as General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party. ... Rubin wears the Medal of Honor he received at the White House. ... Rosika Schwimmer (1877-1948) was a Hungarian-born pacifist, feminist and female suffragist. ... Yehoshua Stampfer (1852 - 1908) was one of the founders of the city of Petah Tikva in Israel. ... Tibor Szamuely Tibor Szamuely (1890 – 1919) was a Hungarian Communist leader. ... Hannah Szenes Hannah Szenes (or Chana Senesh) (July 17, 1921 — November 7, 1944) was a Hungarian Jew, one of 17 Jews living in Palestine, now Israel, who were trained by the British army to parachute into Yugoslavia during the Second World War in order to help save the Jews of... Moritz Wahrmann, Wahrmann Mór(ic), Hungarian politician; grandson of Israel Wahrmann; born at Budapest 28 February 1832; died there 26 November 1892. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Solomon Winter, Hungarian philanthropist; born in the county of Zips, Hungary, in 1778; died at Hunsdorf, in the same county, February 24, 1859, after laboring for sixty years for the advancement of the Jewish race in his locality. ... Markus Nissa Weiss, Hungarian advocate of Reform. ... Phillip Wodianer was a Hungarian communal worker; he lived at Szeged during the latter part of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. ... Theodore Wolfner, Hungarian deputy; born at Uj-Pest June 18, 1864; educated at the gymnasium and at the school of technology at Budapest. ...

Religious Figures

See Hungarian-Jewish Religious Figures

This page is a list of Jews. ...

Scientists

Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes) (June 5, 1900, Budapest – February 9, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist and inventor who is most notable for inventing holography. ... Holography (from the Greek, όλος-hòlòs whole + γραφή-grafè writh) is the science of producing holograms; it is an advanced form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions. ... David Gestetner (1854-1939), was born in Csorna Hungary. ... Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency disease caused by dietary lack of niacin and protein. ... Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency disease caused by dietary lack of niacin (vitamin B3) and protein, especially proteins containing the essential amino acid tryptophan. ... Peter Carl Goldmark (December 2, 1906 – December 7, 1977) was a Hungarian-born, American engineer who, during his time with Columbia Records, was instrumental in developing the long-playing (LP) microgroove 33-1/3 rpm vinyl phonograph discs which defined home audio for two generations. ... A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ... Avram Hershko (born December 31, 1937) is an Israeli biologist. ... Ubiquitin is a very conserved small regulatory protein that is ubiquitous in eukaryotes. ... George Charles de Hevesy (born as Hevesy György, also known as Georg Karl von Hevesy) (August 1, 1885 in Budapest – July 5, 1966) was a Hungarian chemist who was important in the development of the tracer method where radioactive tracers are used to study chemical processes, e. ... A radioactive tracer is a substance containing a radioactive isotope (radioisotope). ... Moritz Kaposi (Hungarian: ) (b. ... Theodore von Kármán (SzÅ‘llÅ‘skislaki Kármán Tódor) (May 11, 1881 – May 6, 1963) was an engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics during the seminal era in the 1940s and 1950s. ... John George Kemeny (Kemény János) (May 31, 1926–December 26, 1992), U.S. computer scientist and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas Eugene Kurtz. ... BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of high-level programming languages. ... Professor Nicholas Kurti (Hungarian: Kürti Miklós) FRS (May 14, 1908- November 24, 1998) was a Hungarian-born physicist. ... John von Neumann (Hungarian Margittai Neumann János Lajos) (born December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., United States) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, economics, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics... George Andrew Olah (born 1927) is a U.S. (Hungarian-born) chemist. ... Egon Orowan (in Hungarian Orován Egon) (August 2, 1901 — August 3, 1989) was an Hungarian/US physicist and metallurgist. ... John Charles Polanyi (born January 23, 1929) is a Canadian chemist. ... Adam Politzer (Alberti, Hungary, October 1, 1835 – August 10, 1920 in Vienna was an Austrian otologist. ... Béla Schick (July 16, 1877 - December 6, 1967), was the Hungarian-born American pediatrician. ... David Schwarz. ... This is an article about Zeppelin airships. ... Gabor A. Somorjai (born May 4, 1935 -) is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry. ... Leó Szilárd (February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964 Originally Szilárd Leó) was a Jewish Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and worked on the Manhattan Project. ... Valentine Telegdi (Hungarian: Telegdi Bálint, 11 January 1922 – April 8, 2006) was a Hungarian-born U.S. physicist. ... 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. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... Charles Weissmann (born 14 October 1931, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born Swiss molecular biologist. ... Eugene Wigner Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Pál JenÅ‘) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and... Leopold Wittelschöfer, Austrian physician; born at Nagykanizsa, Hungary, July 14, 1818; died at Vienna 8 January 1889; educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1841). ... Franz Wittman, Hungarian electrician and physicist; born at HódmezÅ‘vásárhely 16 January 1860. ...

Mathematicians

Raoul Bott (Harvard University News Office) Raoul Bott, FRS (born September 24, 1923, died December 20, 2005) was a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense. ... ... Paul ErdÅ‘s, also ErdÅ‘s Pál, in English Paul Erdos or Paul Erdös (March 26, 1913 – September 20, 1996), was an immensely prolific (and famously eccentric) Hungarian-born mathematician. ... Lipót Fejér (or Leopold Fejér), Fejér Lipót (February 9, 1880, Pécs – October 15, 1959, Budapest) was a Hungarian mathematician. ... Alfréd Haar (October 11, 1885 - March 16, 1933) was a Hungarian mathematician. ... Paul Halmos Paul Richard Halmos (March 3, 1916 — October 2, 2006) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who wrote on probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces), and mathematical logic. ... Gyula Farkas, Farkas Gyula, or Julius Farkas may refer to either of two people: Gyula Farkas (linguistic scientist) (1894-1958), Hungarian literary historian, Finno-Ugric linguist (Finno-Ugrist) Gyula Farkas (natural scientist) (1847-1930), Hungarian mathematician and physicist Category: ... Dénes KÅ‘nig Dénes KÅ‘nig, (September 21, 1884 – October 19, 1944), was a Hungarian mathematician who worked in the field of graph theory. ... Gyula KÅ‘nig (also known as Julius König), (December 16, 1849 in GyÅ‘r, Hungary – April 8, 1913, Budapest) was a Hungarian mathematician who worked on many topics in algebra, number theory, geometry, set theory, and analysis. ... Lanczos redirects here. ... Peter David Lax (born May 1,1926) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of mathematics. ... George Pólya (December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985, in Hungarian Pólya György) was a Hungarian mathematician. ... Rózsa Péter, (February 17, 1905–February 16, 1977) was a Hungarian mathematician. ... Alfréd Rényi (March 20, 1921 – February 1, 1970) was a Hungarian mathematician who made contributions in combinatorics and graph theory but mostly in probability theory. ... Frigyes Riesz Frigyes Riesz (January 22, 1880 – February 28, 1956) was a mathematician who was born in GyÅ‘r, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary) and died in Budapest Hungary. ... Marcel Riesz (November 16, 1886 – September 4, 1969) was a mathematician who was born in Györ, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary) and died in Lund in Sweden. ... Paul (Pál) Turán (August 28, 1910–September 26, 1976) was a Hungarian mathematician who made contributions in number theory and group theory. ... Gábor SzegÅ‘ (January 20, 1895 - August 7, 1985) was a Hungarian mathematician. ... Abraham Wald (October 31, 1902 Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj, Romania) - December 13, 1950 India) was a mathematician who contributed to decision theory, geometry, and econometrics, and founded the field of statistical sequential analysis. ...

Social scientists

Franz Alexander, (1891–1964) was a graduate of the Berlin Psychoanalytic born in Budapest. ... Michael Balint - Bálint Mihály (December 3, 1896, Budapest- December 31, 1970, Bristol) was a psychoanalyst and proponent of the Object Relations school. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Osk(c)ar Ewald, born Oskar Friedländer, or Friedländer Oszkár (November 11, 1881, Búrszentgyörgy/Sankt Georgen, Hungary (now Borský Svätý Jur, Senica District, Slovakia) - September 25, 1940, near Oxford, Oxfordshire) was a Hungarian-Austrian philosopher. ... Ferenczi, furthest right in the back row, with Freud, Carl Jung, and others in front of Clark University in 1909. ... Ignaz Goldziher (June 22, 1850 - 1921), was a Jewish Hungarian orientalist and is widely considered among the founders of modern Islamic studies in Europe. ... John Charles Harsanyi (Hungarian: Harsányi János) (born May 29, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary; died August 9, 2000 in Berkeley, California, United States) was a Hungarian- Australian-American economist and Nobel Laureate. ... Game theory is often described as a branch of applied mathematics and economics that studies situations where multiple players make decisions in an attempt to maximize their returns. ... ... Richard Hönigswald (b. ... Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor (Budapest, 12 May 1908 - Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, 30 September 1986) was one of the foremost Cambridge economists in the post-war period. ... Felix Philipp Kanitz (Bulgarian and Serbian Cyrillic: Феликс Филип Каниц) (2 August 1829-8 January 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian naturalist, geographer, ethnographer, archaeologist and author of travel notes. ... Wilhelm Klein (November 28, 1850, Karánsebes (today Caransebeş), Krassó-Szörény megye, Hungary - 1924), was an Hungarian-Austrian archeologist. ... János Kornai, (1928-), born in Budapest, Hungary, is an economist noted for his criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states. ... Imre Lakatos (November 9, 1922 – February 2, 1974) was a philosopher of mathematics and science. ... Gottlieb Von Leitner (1840/1841 - 22 March 1899) was an Anglo-Hungarian orientalist. ... John Lukacs (born 31 January 1924 in Budapest his name spelled Lukács) is a Hungarian-born historian who has written more than twenty-five books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and The New Republic. ... Margaret Schönberger Mahler (May 10, 1897 – October 2, 1985) was a Hungarian physician, who later became interested in psychiatry. ... Karl Mannheim (March 27, 1893, Budapest - January 9, 1947, London) was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology. ... The sociology of knowledge is the study of the relationship between human thought and the social context within which it arises, and of the effects prevailing ideas have on societies. ... Portrait of Adolf Neubauer, from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia. ... Karl Paul Polanyi (October 21, 1886 - Pickering, Ontario April 23, 1964) was a Hungarian intellectual known for his opposition to traditional economic thought and his influential book The Great Transformation. ... Michael Polanyi (March 11, 1891 - February 22, 1976) was a Hungarian/ British polymath whose thought and work extended across physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. ... Geza Roheim (1891 – 1953) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst and anthropologist. ... Sir Martin Roth is a British scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Society. ... René Árpád Spitz (1887, Vienna - November 11, 1974, Denver) was an American psychoanalyst of Hungarian origin. ... Sir M(arc) Aurel Stein (1862 - 1943), born in Budapest, was a Hungarian Jewish archaeologist who became a British citizen. ... Thomas Szasz. ... Karl Kalman Targownik (June 17, 1915 - January 2, 1996) was a psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor. ... Geza Vermes (born 22 June 1924) is a Jewish scholar and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian. ...

Films and stage

Mischa Auer (17 November 1905 in St. ... George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director. ... Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz, June 3, 1925) is an American film actor. ... Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is a two time Golden Globe-winning, and Emmy Award-nominated American film actress and a successful writer of books for children. ... Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 - April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director, whose best known films include The Adventures of Robin Hood, Casablanca, and White Christmas. ... Paul Czinner, born May 30, 1890 in Budapest, Hungary, died June 22, 1972 in London, was a writer, film director and producer. ... Eva Gabor (in Hungarian Gábor Éva) (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian actress. ... Magda Gabor Magda Gabor (June 11, 1915 - June 6, 1997) was a Hungarian-American entertainer born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (modern day Hungary). ... Zsa Zsa Gábor (born Sári Gábor on February 6, 1917)) is a Hungarian-American actress and socialite. ... Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ... Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), whose real name was Ehrich Weiss (which was changed from Erich Weisz when he emigrated to America), was a Hungarian-born American magician, escapologist (widely regarded as one of the greatest ever), stunt performer, as well as an investigator of spiritualists, film... Kate Garry Hudson[1] (born April 19, 1979) is an American film actress. ... Gustav Kadelburg (January 26, 1851, Budapest - September 11, 1925, Berlin) was a Hungarian-German Jewish actor, dramatist, writer. ... Sir Alexander Korda (September 16, 1893 - January 23, 1956) was a film director and producer, a leading figure in the British film industry and the founder of London Films. ... ... Robert Lantos (born April 3, 1949, in Budapest, Hungary) is a Canadian film producer. ... Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964), born Ladislav (László) Löwenstein, was a charismatic Austrian stage and screen actor and director, who later became a naturalized US citizen. ... Paul Lukas (May 26, 1887 - August 15, 1971) was a Hungarian actor. ... Emeric Pressburger in Paris. ... István Szabó, 2004 István Szabó (born February 18, 1938 in Budapest) is both the best-known and one of the most critically acclaimed Hungarian film director of the past few decades. ... George Tabori George Tabori (born May 24, 1914, Budapest) is a Hungarian writer and theatre director. ... Alexandre Trauner (August 3, 1906 in Budapest, Hungary- December 5, 1993 in Omonville-la-Petite, France) was a set designer. ... Rachel Weisz (born March 7, 1971) is an Academy Award-winning English film and television actress. ...

Musicians

Paul Abraham (Pál Ábrahám) (* November 2, 1892 in Apatin, (Hungary); † May 6, 1960 in Hamburg) was a composer of operettas. ... Moshe Atzmon (born 30 July 1931 in Budapest) is a Hungarian conductor. ... Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim, or C(K)aroline Bettelheim (born June 1, 1845, at Pest (Budapest), Hungary - 1925) was a Hungarian-Austrian court singer and member of the Royal Opera, Vienna. ... Leopold Auer. ... Gábor Darvas Gábor Darvas (until 1952 Gábor Steinberger) (January 18, 1911 – February 18, 1985) was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. ... Antal Dor ti (April 9, 1906 - November 13, 1988) was a conductor and composer. ... Ádám Fischer (born 1949, Budapest) is a Hungarian conductor. ... Annie Fischer (July 5, 1914 - April 10, 1995) was a Hungarian classical pianist. ... ... Carl Flesch (October 9, 1873 - November 14, 1944) was a violinist and teacher. ... Karl Goldmark, also known originally as Károly Goldmark and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark, (May 18, 1830 Keszthely, Hungary - January 2, 1915 Vienna) was a Hungarian composer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Joseph Joachim Joseph Joachim (June 28, 1831 – August 15, 1907) (pronounced YO-a-chim) was a violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. ... Emmerich Kálmán (October 24, 1882 - October 30, 1953), also known as Imre Kálmán, was a Hungarian composer of operettas. ... Istvan Kertesz (August 28, 1929 – April 16, 1973) was a Hungarian conductor. ... Joseph Kosma (1905-1969) was born in Budapest and died in Paris. ... (this page is being developed) Lili Kraus, a talented pianist and one of the most extraordinary musicians of the twentieth century, was born on March 4th 1903 in Hungary. ... György Kurtág (born February 19, 1926) is a Hungarian composer of contemporary music. ... Yehoshua Lakner Yehoshua Lakner (b. ... György Sándor Ligeti (May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a Jewish Hungarian composer born in Romania who later became an Austrian citizen. ... Eugene Ormandy (November 18, 1899, Budapest, Hungary – March 12, 1985, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an eminent American orchestral conductor. ... Ödön Pártos [alternate English transcription: Oedeon Partos; Hungarian original: Pártos Ödön, Hebrew: עֵדֶן פרטוש (Eden Partosh)] (b. ... Drummer Tommy Ramone (born Thomas Erdelyi January 29, 1952 in Budapest, Hungary) grew up in Queens, one of the boroughs of New York City. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Eduard Remenyi, Reményi Ede, born Eduard Hoffmann (January 17, 1828, Miskolc, Hungary – May 15, 1898, New York) was a Hungarian violinist. ... Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) was an American composer best known for his operettas. ... Vera Rózsa (or Vera Rozsa-Nordell - her last name is pronounced [roh-zhah]), born in 1921, is a Hungarian singer, voice teacher and vocal consultant. ... Márk Rózsavölgyi (born Mordecai (Motke) Rosenthal, 1789 Balassagyarmat - 1848, Pest) was a Hungarian-Jewish composer and violinist. ... Czardas or Csárdás (Hungarian csárdás, from csárda, a tavern, beer house) is a traditional Hungarian folk dance. ... András Schiff (born December 21, 1953) is a Hungarian-born Jewish classical pianist. ... Friedrich Schorr (1888 - 1953) was a Hungarian bass-baritone who sang in opera. ... Mátyás Seiber (May 4, 1905 – September 24, 1960) was a Hungarian-born composer who lived in England from 1935 onward. ... Sir Georg Solti, KBE (pronounced ) (21 October 1912 - 5 September 1997) was a world-renowned Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. ... János Starker (b. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Joseph Szigeti (September 5, 1892 – February 19, 1973) was a Hungarian violinist. ... Miklós Vig was a Hungarian cabaret[1] and Jazz[2][3] singer, actor and theater secretary[4] in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. ...

Writers

Béla Balázs (August 4, 1884, Szeged – May 17, 1949, Budapest), born Herbert Bauer, was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic, aesthete, writer and poet. ... Bródy Sándor, or Sándor Bródy (1863, Erlau/Eger - ) was a Hungarian author and journalist. ... Sigmund Brody, or Bródy Zsigmond (November 15, 1840, Miskolc - ) was a Hungarian journalist, and member of the Upper House of the Hungarian Parliament. ... György Faludy or George Faludy (September 22, 1910, Budapest - September 1, 2006, Budapest) was a Hungarian-Jewish poet, writer and translator. ... rightMiksa Fenyo, circa 1910 Miksa FenyÅ‘ (December 8, 1877 – April 4, 1972) was a Hungarian writer and intellectual, served as a Member of Parliament ( elected 1931 ) in the early 1930s, and was appointed Minister of Trade and Commerce under the short-lived ( 24 hours ! )government cabinet of Prime Minister J... Theodor Hertzka, or Hertzka Tivadar (July 13, 1845, Budapest - 1924, Wiesbaden) was a Hungarian-Austrian economist and journalist. ... 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... Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest – March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. ... György (George) Konrád (born 1933) is a Hungarian novelist and essayist, known as an advocate of individual freedom. ...   (Hebrew:אפרים קישון) (August 23, 1924 – January 29, 2005) was an Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. ... Paul Lendvai was born as a Hungarian Jew, he was arrested by Nazis as a teenager, survived the Holocaust, became a communist activist in post-war Budapest, and blacklisted as a journalist by the communist regime. ... Rudolf Lothar [rú:dolf ló:tar] (born Rudolf Lothar Spitzer, February 25, 1865, Budapest - after 1933/October 2, 1943, Budapest) was a Hungary-born Austrian writer, playwright, critic, essayist. ... Georg Lukács (April 13, 1885 – June 4, 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic in the tradition of Western Marxism. ... George Mikes (1912--1987) was a Hungarian-born British author, most famous for his commentaries on various countries, starting from his first book How to be an alien which poked gentle fun at the English, including a one-line chapter on sex: Continental people have sex lives; the English have... Ferenc Molnár (b. ... Max Nordau (July 29, 1849 - January 23, 1923), born Simon Maximilian Südfeld in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. ... Miklós Radnóti (1909 – 1944) was a Hungarian Jewish writer from Budapest who fell victim to the Holocaust. ... Anna Sandor is an award-winning screenwriter. ... Antal Szerb (Budapest, 1901 - Balf, 1945) was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. ... George Tabori George Tabori (born May 24, 1914, Budapest) is a Hungarian writer and theatre director. ... Eliezer Wiesel, KBE (commonly known as Elie Wiesel, born September 30, 1928)[1] is a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent. ... Ludwig Wysber, Hungarian journalist and author; born 1817. ... Rabbi Zvi Meir Steinmetz. ...

Artists

Amos with his wife Margit Anna in the 1930s Imre Ámos (1907, Nagykálló - 1944 or 1945, Germany) was a twentieth century Hungarian Jewish painter. ... Margit Anna (left) with her painter husband Imre Amos in the 1930s Margit Anna born Margit Sichermann (1913 - 1991) was a twentieth century Hungarian painter. ... Maurice Ascalon at the Duomo di Milano in Italy circa 1934 Maurice Ascalon hammering The Scholar, The Laborer, and The Toiler of the Soil for the 1939 New York Worlds Fair Maurice Ascalons The Scholar, The Laborer, and The Toiler of the Soil copper relief sculpture. ... Lipót Baumhorn (December 28, 1860, Kisbér - July 8, 1932, Kisbér) was a Hungarian architect. ... Gyula Basch (April 9, 1859, Budapest - January 8, 1928, Baden) was a Hungarian painter. ... Árpád Basch (April 16, 1873, Budapest - 1944, Budapest) was a Hungarian Jewish painter and graphic artist. ... Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer (May 21, 1902 Pécs, Hungary – July 1, 1981 New York City), architect and furniture designer, was an influential modernist. ... Robert Capa (Budapest, October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a famous war photographer during the 20th century. ... André François (born André Farkas; November 9, 1915 – April 11, 2005) was a French cartoonist. ... John Steohen Hirsch (born 1930, Hungary) was an Hungarian-Canadian theater director. ... Isidor Kaufman was a painter of Jewish themes. ... Das Renaissance-Theater(de), Berlin Das Theater der Freien Volksbühne(de) am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Villa Konschewski(de), Volksbühne, Hundekehlesee(de), Berlin, for Pemmeranian paper fabricant Dr. Moritz Konschewski Stadttheater Bremerhaven(de) Habima Theater, Tel Aviv Krolloper, Berlin Oskar Kaufmann (February 2, 1873 - September 8, 1956) is an... André Kertész (Born Andor Kertész July 2, 1894 - September 28, 1985) was a Hungary-born photographer distinguished by haunting composition in his photographs and was also a progenitor of the photo essay. ... Paul László Paul Laszlo or Paul László (the latter spelling is correct, but the name is often anglicized to the former) (6 February 1900–27 March 1993) was a famous modern architect and interior designer and is considered a giant amongst the furniture designers, interior designers, and architects... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Martin Munkácsi (born Marmortein/Marmelstein, 1896 Klausenburg, - 1963) was a notable Hungarian photographer, who began his career as a sports photojournalist in Germany and Hungary before arriving in the United States in 1934. ... Sylvia Plachy is photographer. ... Portrait of Rosenthal by Ioan D. Negulici Constantin Daniel Rosenthal (Hungarian: Rosenthal Konstantin, 1820—July 22, 1851) was a Hungarian-born painter and 1848 revolutionary, best known for his portraits and his choice of Romanian Romantic nationalist subjects. ... Árpád Szenes (1897-1985) was an Hungarian painter who worked in France. ... Hungarian Painter. ... Ignaz Wechselmann (b. ...

Business

Leo Castelli (1907–1999) was an Austro-Hungarian art dealer. ... Trieste (Italian: Trieste; Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian: Trst; German: Triest) is a city and port in northeastern Italy right on the border with Slovenia. ... Andre Deutsch (1917–2000) was a 20th century British publisher. ... // Moritz von (Farkasházi-)Fischer, Mór(ic) Fischer von/de Farkasház, Moritz Fischer von Farkasház, or Mór Farkasházi Fischer (Hungarian: Farkasházi Fischer Mór(ic); 1800, Totis/Tata - February 25, 1900, Tata) was a Hungarian porcelain-manufacturer; was one of the founders of the... William Fox could refer to the following persons: William Fox – Prime Minister of New Zealand on four occasions in the 19th century Wilhelm Fried, better known with his adopted name William Fox – founder of the Fox Film Corporation (now 20th Century Fox) William Fox Talbot – a pioneer... Dr. Andrew Stephen Grove (born September 2, 1936 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American businessman. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is an American multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... Josef Ganz was a German car designer born in Budapest, Hungary. ... Joseph Pulitzer Joseph Pulitzer (April 18, 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. ... The Reichmann family is a family best known for controlling the Olympia and York business empire. ... George Soros (pronounced ) [Shorosh] (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. ... Teodoro Åœvarc (or Schwartz or Soros Tivadar; 1894-1968) was a Hungarian Jewish doctor, lawyer, author and editor. ... George Soros (pronounced ) [Shorosh] (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. ... Cukor Adolf (Adolph Zukor) (January 7, 1873–June 10, 1976) was the founder of Paramount Pictures Studios, and one of the greatest film moguls of all time. ... Information in this article or section has not been verified against sources and may not be reliable. ...

Sports

Chess

Gyula Breyer (1893 – 1921) was a Hungarian chess player. ... Rudolf Rezso Charousek (1873 – 1900) was a Hungarian-Jewish chess player. ... Ernst Falkbeer (June 27, 1819 – December 14, 1885) was a 19th Century Austrian chess master. ... István (Stefan, Stephan) Fazekas (23 March 1898, Satoraljaujhely, Hungary – 3 May 1967, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, England) was a Hungarian–British chess master. ... ErnÅ‘ Gereben (also Ernest Grünfeld) (born 18 June 1907, Sopron, Hungary – died 1988, Switzerland) was a Hungarian–Swiss chess master. ... Isidor Gunsberg (Hungary, 1854 – 1930) began his career as the player inside the chess automaton Mephisto but later became a chess professional. ... Kolisch Ignác báró, or Baron Ignaz von Kolisch (April 6, 1837, Pozsony – April 30, 1889, Vienna) was a Hungarian merchant, journalist, and chess-master. ... Gyula Kluger (born 15 January 1914, Sátoraljaújhely – died 23 September 1994, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess master. ... Imre König (Koenig) (born 9 February 1899, Gyula, Hungary – died 1992, Santa Monica, California) was a Hungarian chess master. ... Samuel Lipschütz (July 4, 1863–1905) was a chess player and author and was chess champion of the United States from 1891–1894. ... Johann Löwenthal Johann Jacob Löwenthal (July 15, 1810 – July 24, 1876) was a 19th century professional chess master. ... Andre Lilienthal (born 5 May 1911) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. ... Joseph Noa (born 21 October 1856, Nagybecskerek – died 1 June 1903, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess master. ... Judit Polgár (born July 23, 1976) is a Hungarian chess player. ... Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Zsuzsa Polgár (born April 19, 1969 in Budapest, Hungary), is among the strongest female chess players in history. ... Samuel Lipschütz (July 4, 1863–1905) was a chess player and author and was chess champion of the United States from 1891–1894. ... Endre (Andreas) Steiner (born 27 June 1901 – died 29 December 1944) Endre Steiner played for Hungary in five official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads. ... Herman Steiner (April 15, 1905 – November 25, 1955) was a U.S. chess player, organizer, and columnist. ... Lajos Steiner (born 14 June 1903, Nagyvárad (Oradea) – died 22 April 1975, Sydney) In 1923, he tied for 4-5th in Vienna. ... László Szabó was a Hungarian fencing master. ... Max Weiss Max Weiss does not personally condone any of the below information. ...

Fencing

Ilona Elek-Schacherer (May 17, 1907 - July 24, 1988) was a Hungarian Olympic fencer. ... Gold Medal is an album by American band The Donnas, released in 2004. ... A silver medal is a medal awarded to the second place finisher of contests (typically athletics competitions) such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. ... Jenö Fuchs is a Jewish Hungarian Olympic champion fencer. ... Endre Kabos ([[May 11, 1906-44) won four Olympic medals for Hungary. ... Fencing advertisement for the 1900 Summer Olympic Games This article is about the sport, which is distinguished from stage fencing and academic fencing (mensur). ... Gold Medal is an album by American band The Donnas, released in 2004. ... A silver medal is a medal awarded to the second place finisher of contests (typically athletics competitions) such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. ... Attila Petschauer (December 14, 1904 – January 20, 1943) was a Hungarian Olympic fencer. ...

Other

  • Viktor Barna, table tennis World Champion (5 singles, 8 doubles, 2 mixed)
  • Béla Guttman, football (soccer) coach (10 championships, 2 European Cups)
  • Dezső Gyarmati, Olympic water polo player & captain (3g1s1b) (half Jewish)[20]
  • Alfréd Hajós, first Olympic swimming champion (2g)
  • Paul Havas, Columbia Quarterback (Transylvanian Grandparents)
  • György Kárpáti, water polo player (half Jewish)[21]
  • Béla Komjádi, water polo player
  • György Bródy, Olympic water polo players (3g1b & 2g & 2g)[22]
  • Ágnes Keleti, Olympic gymnast (5g4s1b)
  • Ferenc Kemény, co-founder and first secretary of the IOC[23]
  • Lily Kronberger, figure skating World Champion (4g2b)
  • Emilie Rotter & Laszlo Szollas, figure skating World Champions (4g1s) & Olympic medalists (2b)
  • Gusztáv Sebes, national Hungarian football (soccer) coach (gold medal at the 1952 Olympics, and silver medal at the 1954 FIFA World Cup)
  • Anna Sipos, table tennis World Champion (2 singles, 6 doubles, 2 mixed)
  • Miklós Szabados, table tennis World Champion (1 singles, 6 doubles, 3 mixed)[citation needed]
  • Éva Székely & Andrea Gyarmati, mother and daughter Olympic swimmers (1g1s & 1s1b)[24]
    • Eva was married to Dezső Gyarmati (see below), while Andrea married canoeist Mihály Hesz (1g1s)

Viktor Gyozo Barna (Braun) (born August 24, 1911, in Budapest, Hungary; died February 1972) was a Hungarian table tennis player. ... Jan-Ove Waldner Table tennis (also commonly known as ping-pong) is a game in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth to each other with bats (also sometimes called racquets or paddles). ... Béla Guttmann (Budapest, January 27, 1899 – Vienna, August 28, 1981) was a Hungarian football manager who led many successful teams. ... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... Water polo is a team water sport combining some elements of swimming and handball. ... Alfréd Hajós (February 2, 1878 – November 12, 1955) was an Hungarian swimmer and architect. ... This article concentrates on human swimming. ... György Bródy (born July 21, 1908 in Budapest - died August 5, 1967 in Johannesburg, South Africa) was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. ... Ágnès Keleti (born 1921 in Budapest, Hungary) was an artistic gymnast. ... Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, and kinesthetic awareness, such as handsprings, handstands, split leaps, aerials and cartwheels. ... Can anyone provide additional information regarding Ferenc Kemény along with their associated accomplishments? I have searched the web and have not been able to find anything. ... Alternative meanings at IOC (disambiguation) The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games held in Greece, and organize this sports event every four years. ... Lily Kronberger was a Hungarian figure skater. ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... László Szollás (1907, in Budapest, Hungary-1980) was a Hungarian pair skater. ... Gusztáv Sebes (June 21, 1906 – January 30, 1986) was a Hungarian football (soccer) coach. ... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... There were two Olympic Games in the year 1952: 1952 Summer Olympics 1952 Winter Olympics This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Qualifying countries The 1954 Football World Cup was held in Switzerland. ... Anna Sipos (born April 3, 1908 in Hungary; died in 1972) was a Hungarian table tennis player. ... Éva Székely (born on April 3, 1927 in Budapest) is a Hungarian retired female swimmer. ... Andrea Gyarmati (born on April 15, 1954 in Budapest) is a Hungarian retired female swimmer. ...

Pedigrees

  • Baron Hatvany-Deutsch family
  • Zuckerkandl pedigree
  • the House of Bischitz von Heves / Hevesy-Bischitz
  • Mendel family

Hatvan, Hatvani, Hatvany, Hatvanyi are Hungarian family names meaning a person, landowner, pedigree from Hatvan, Heves county, in Hungary. ... Victor Zuckerkandl (1896-1965), musicologist Bertha (Berta) Zuckerkandl (Szeps) (1864 - 1945), journalist, author. ... Heves is the name of: an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary, an administrative county in the former Kingdom of Hungary, a town in Hungary. ... Mendel is the last name of Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), often called the father of Genetics. ...

See also

The following is a list of prominent Magyars (Hungarians), the majority of whom grew to be famous within Hungary rather than abroad. ... History of the Jews in Hungary concerns the Jews of Hungary and of Hungarian origins. ...

References

  1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was a devout Jew"
  2. ^ converted to Catholicism
  3. ^ converted to Catholicism
  4. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ Views of a Physicist: selected papers of N.G. van Kampen - Page 233 - Parents were Lutheran by religion
  7. ^ (Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Historians)
  8. ^ [2]
  9. ^ converted to Christianity
  10. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "registered with the Jewish community of Pest"; Jewish Encyclopedia
  11. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia article on Adolf Neubauer
  12. ^ Catholic by religion
  13. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Balazs, Bela; [http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/taite/vk/honti/principl.pdf (p100, footnote 171) "German on his mother's side and Jewish on his father's"
  14. ^ [3]
  15. ^ converted to Catholicism
  16. ^ brought up a Catholic
  17. ^ [4]
  18. ^ Catholic by religion
  19. ^ [5]
  20. ^ http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501k.pdf
  21. ^ http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501k.pdf
  22. ^ [6]
  23. ^ http://www.jewishsports.net/PillarAchievementBios/FerencKemeny.htm
  24. ^ [7]

The Dictionary of National Biography (or DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history. ... The Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. ... The Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. ... The Dictionary of National Biography (or DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history. ... The Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. ...

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