List of people from Budapest explained
The following list includes notable people who were born, lived or resided in Budapest, Hungary and/or who became its honorary citizens, either during their lifetime or posthumously.
Academics
Artists
Athletes
Authors
Entertainment and Film
- András Arató - model and internet meme
- Gábor Bódy - director, screenwriter, theoretic, and actor
- Monique Covét - pornographic actress and fetish model
- Ágnes Csomor - actress
- Eva Gabor - actress and socialite
- Magda Gabor - actress and socialite
- Zsa Zsa Gabor - actress and socialite
- Mickey Hargitay - actor and 1955 Mr. Universe
- Géza Hofi - actor and comedian
- Harry Houdini - escapologist and stuntperson
- Miklós Jancsó - director and screenwriter
- Gyula Kabos - actor and comedian
- Flóra Kádár - actress
- Lajos Koltai - cinematographer and director
- David Merlini - escapologist and world record holder
- Barbara Palvin - model
- Pál Regős - theatre director and choreographer
- Ernő Rubik - inventor of the Rubik's cube
- Ilona Staller - pornographic actress, politician, and singer
- István Szabó - film director, screenwriter, and opera director
- Béla Tarr - filmmaker
- Mari Törőcsik - actress
- Ivan Tors - playwright, film director, screenwriter, and film and television producer
- Vilmos Zsigmond - cinematographer
Musicians
- Niki Belucci - DJ
- János Bihari - violinist
- Gábor Darvas - composer and musicologist
- Ernő von Dohnányi - composer, pianist, and conductor
- Antal Doráti - conductor and composer
- Péter Eötvös - composer, conductor, and teacher
- Tamás Erdélyi - drummer
- Ferenc Erkel - composer, conductor, and pianist
- Jakob Grün - violinist
- Péter Halász - conductor
- Pál Kadosa - composer
- Zoltán Kodály - composer, ethnomusicologist, and pedagogue
- Ildikó Komlósi - mezzo-soprano
- György Kurtág - composer and pianist
- Franz Liszt - composer and pianist
- Ervin Nyiregyházi - pianist
- Paul Alexander Nyiri - opera singer
- Tibor Paul - conductor
- Zoltán Peskó - conductor and composer
- Charles Reiner - pianist and educator
- András Schiff - pianist
- Gábor Szabó - guitarist
- Jenő Szenkár - conductor
- László Vidovszky - composer and pianist
- Márton Vizy - singer, songwriter, and composer
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Politicians
Scientists
- Franz Alexander - psychoanalyst and physician
- Michael Balint - psychoanalyst
- Zoltán Lajos Bay - physicist, professor, and engineer
- Donát Bánki - engineer and inventor
- Georg von Békésy - biophysicist and laureate of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Ottó Bláthy - electrical engineer and inventor
- Miksa Déri - electrical engineer
- Loránd Eötvös - physicist
- Sándor Ferenczi - psychoanalyst
- Ábrahám Ganz - iron manufacturer, machine and technical engineer, entrepreneur
- Dennis Gabor - electrical engineer, physicist, and laureate of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics
- George de Hevesy - radiochemist and laureate of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Máté Hidvégi - biochemist and inventor
- János Irinyi - chemist and inventor
- György Jendrassik - physicist and mechanical engineer
- Kálmán Kandó - engineer and inventor
- Theodore von Kármán - mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist
- Philipp Lenard - physicist and laureate of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics[2]
- Alexander Nadas - pediatric cardiologist
- John von Neumann - mathematician and physicist
- George Andrew Olah - chemist and laureate of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- John Polanyi - chemist and laureate of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Tivadar Puskás - inventor
- Alexander Radó - cartographer, geographer, and Soviet military intelligence agent
- István Rosztóczy - microbiologist and medical researcher
- Géza Róheim - psychoanalyst and anthropologist
- Gábor A. Somorjai - chemistry professor and researcher
- József Szabó von Szentmiklós - geologist
- Paul B. Szanto - pathologist
- Victor Szebehely - key figure in the development of the Apollo program
- Albert Szent-Györgyi - biochemist and laureate of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Leó Szilárd - physicist and inventor
- Mária Telkes - biophysicist and inventor
- Edward Teller - nuclear physicist
- Eugene Wigner - physicist, mathematician, and laureate of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Károly Zipernowsky - engineer
- Paula Zsidi - archeologist and museum director
Other notable people and honorary citizens
Notes and References
- https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/countries.html Nobel Laureates and Country of Birth
- http://www.americanhungarianfederation.org/FamousHungarians/nobel.htm The American Hungarian Federation – Founded 1906
