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Tamás Sipos, sports commentator and writer, former director of Hungarian television. László Szabados, Olympic bronze swimmer (4 x 200-meter freestyle relay) Miklós Szabados, 15-times world champion table tennis player. László Szabó (1917–1998), chess player. Ágnes Szávay (born 1988), tennis player.
A Hungarian chronicler known as Anonymus, author of Gesta Hungarorum, names the seven chieftains as: Álmos, father of Árpád. Előd, father of Szabolcs. Ond, father of Ete. Kend (Kond, Kund), father of Korcán (Kurszán) and Kaplon. Tas, father of Lél (Lehel) Huba. Tétény (Töhötöm), father of Horka.
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.
Hungarians, also known as Magyars (/ ˈ m æ ɡ j ɑː r z / MAG-yarz; [26] Hungarian: magyarok [ˈmɒɟɒrok]), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország) and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.
Alan G. Hevesi – (1940-) both parents were Holocaust survivors born in Hungary. Hevesi is a former New York politician and a convicted felon currently in prison. Ernest Istook – former Congressman from Oklahoma (1993–2007) John Kerry (1943-) – his paternal grandparents were Austro-Hungarian immigrants.
History of Hungary. Hungary in its modern (post-1946) borders roughly corresponds to the Great Hungarian Plain (the Pannonian Basin) in Central Europe. During the Iron Age, it was located at the crossroads between the cultural spheres of Scythian tribes (such as Agathyrsi, Cimmerians), the Celtic tribes (such as the Scordisci, Boii and Veneti ...
The Thirteen Martyrs of Arad (Hungarian: aradi vértanúk) were the thirteen Hungarian rebel generals who were executed by the Austrian Empire on 6 October 1849 in the city of Arad, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary (now in Romania), after the Hungarian Revolution (1848–1849). The execution was ordered by the Austrian general Julius Jacob ...
Eight were born in Budapest. Following is a complete list of the Nobel laureates of Hungary, as recognised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. [1] [2] However, if persons born as Hungarian citizens are included, then the number rises to 22 in the scientific field. [3]