György Explained
| György |
| Gender: | masculine |
| Feminine: | Georgina, Györgyi |
| Meaning: | farmer |
| Language: | Hungarian |
| Language origin: | Greek |
| Nickname: | Gyuri, Gyurka |
| Related Names: | Györe, Györk, Györke |
| Cognate: | Georgios |
| Anglicisation: | George |
| Name Day: | April 24 |
György (in Hungarian pronounced as /ˈɟørɟ/) is a Hungarian version of the name George. Some notable people with this given name:
- György Alexits, as a Hungarian mathematician
- György Almásy, Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer, father of László Almásy
- György Apponyi, Hungarian politician
- György Gordon Bajnai, Prime Minister of Hungary (2009-10)
- György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP.
- György Bárdy, Hungarian film and television actor
- György Bródy, Hungarian water polo goalkeeper, 2x Olympic champion
- György Bulányi, Hungarian a Piarist priest, teacher, and leader
- György Carabelli, Hungarian dentist
- György Csányi, Hungarian athlete
- György Cserhalmi, Hungarian actor
- György Csesznek, Hungarian aristocrat
- György Csordás, Hungarian freestyle swimmer
- György Czakó, Hungarian figure skater
- György Cziffra, Hungarian virtuoso pianist
- György Dózsa, Székely man-at-arms from Transylvania
- György Enyedi (geographer), Hungarian economist and geographer
- György Faludy, Hungarian-born poet, writer and translator
- György Fehér, Hungarian film director
- György Festetics, a Hungarian politician
- György Fráter, Croatian nobleman, Pauline monk and Hungarian statesman
- György Garics, Austrian football defender of Hungarian and Slovakian Croat roots
- György Gedó, Hungarian Olympic champion light flyweight boxer
- György Gerendás, Hungarian former water polo player
- György Gurics, Hungarian wrestler
- György Gyimesi (born 1980), Slovak politician
- György Hajós, Hungarian mathematician
- György Hevesy, Hungarian radiochemist and awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- György Horkai, Hungarian former water polo player
- György Káldy, Hungarian Jesuit and Bible translator
- György Károly, Hungarian poet and writer
- György Kárpáti, Hungarian former water polo player
- György Klapka, Hungarian general
- György Klein, Hungarian–Swedish microbiologist and public intellectual
- György Kolonics, Hungarian sprint canoeist
- György Konrád, Hungarian novelist and essayist
- György Kulin, Hungarian astronomer
- György Kurtág, Hungarian composer
- György Kutasi, Hungarian water polo player
- György Lahner, Hungarian general
- György Ligeti, Hungarian composer
- György Lukács, Hungarian Marxist philosopher
- György Marx, Hungarian physicist, astrophysicist, science historian and professor
- György Matolcsy, Hungarian politician and economist, current governor of the Hungarian National Bank
- György Mitró, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist
- György Moldova, Hungarian author
- György Oláh, Hungarian and American chemist and awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- György Orbán, Romanian-born Hungarian composer
- György Orth, Hungarian footballer and manager
- György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist
- György Petri, Hungarian poet
- György Piller, Hungarian Olympic and world champion fencer
- György Pólya, Hungarian mathematician
- I György Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania from 1630 until 1648
- II György Rákóczi, Hungarian nobleman, Prince of Transylvania from 1648 until 1660
- György Sándor, Hungarian pianist
- György Sándor (footballer), Hungarian footballer
- György Sárosi, Hungarian footballer
- György Sebők, Hungarian-born American pianist
- György Spiró, Hungarian dramatist, novelist and essayist
- György Szabados, Hungarian jazz pianist
- György Szepesi, Hungarian radio personality and sports executive
- György Szondy, 16th century Hungarian hero
- György Zala (sculptor), Hungarian sculptor
- George Worth, born György Woittitz (1915–2006), Hungarian-born American Olympic medalist fencer
- George Soros, born György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian-born American investor
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