Timelines of History

[thepennyking]

When Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi was asked if he believed in extraterrestrials, he replied, "They are already here...they are called Hungarians!"

Did you know that the developers of the atomic bomb; the holograph; moon rover; Model T Ford; and the fathers of binary code, BASIC and computer programming; the atomic bomb, nuclear engineering; the California wine industry; the U.S. Cavalry; the Model T Ford; matches; color television; full-length motion pictures; the carburetor; the Zeppelin; the automatic gearbox; the moon rover; Intel Corporation; and of the U.S. aerospace industry are all Hungarian-Americans? And what about Joseph Pulitzer, of "Pulitzer Prize" fame? There's much more to his story. And can you believe there was a Hungarian Emperor of Madagascar?

This list is far from inclusive, but exemplifies, along with the other sections, the Hungarian Genius! Many of these will surprise you. They sure surprised me. The number of these incredible people is astounding given the size of the Hungarian population in the entire world is around 20 million. I have received submissions from all over the world (see "Special Thanks").

Click to [Submit] a Famous Hungarian. Please include a resource for verification purposes. I do get quite a bit of hate mail regarding this site and this list. History can so easily be corrupted by nationalism. To maintain the high standards and integrity of this site, submissions cannot be accepted without a verifiable resource.

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Sections:

Sports
Science, Mathematics, & Technology I, II
Film, the Arts, & Media I, II
Business & Politics
Military
Hungarian Nobel Prize Winners
Hungarian Olympic Triumph

Master Name Index is below


Master Name Index (Alphabetical with Appropriate Section in Link)
Don Adams - Record setting Triple Emmy Award and Clio Award Winning Actor, Director, Screenwriter - Get Smart!
Florian Albert - Soccer Great - World Cup scoring title and European Soccer Player of the Year: the "Gold Ball" of 1967
Franz (Gabriel) Alexander - Physician and Psychoanalyst: Psychoanalytic Pioneer - Father of Psychosomatic Medicine
Count Ede Laszlo Almasy - Explorer, Double Agent! Immortalized in "The English Patient"
Geza Anda - Acclaimed Pianist: The "Troubador of the Piano"
Anonymous - Inventor of the Carriage or "Coach"
Lt. Colonel Albert Anzelm - Civil War Hero: General Fremont's Chief-of-Staff.
General Alexander Asboth - US Chief-of-Staff, US Minister to Argentina
Oscar Asboth - Engineer - Student of Theodore Kármán and Helicopter Pioneer
Donat Banki - Co-Invented the Carburetor
Robert Barany - Nobel Prize 1914 - "For his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus"
Bela Barenyi - Engineer, Auto Safety Pioneer - Father of the Volkswagen Beetle, Passive Safety, Occupant Safety Cell, Collapsible Steering System, AND the Seat Belt!
Victor Barna - Legendary Table Tennis Champion - "The Greatest Table Tennis Player that ever Lived"
Madeleine Forro Barnothy - Astrophysicist, Pioneer in the study of Cosmic Radiation, Bio-Magnetism and Magnetic Therapy, first Woman to earn a doctorate in physics in Hungary!
Drew Barrymore - Actress, Model, Producer, Philanthropist, "America's Sweetheart"
Bela Bartok - Composer, ethnomusicologist
Zoltan Bay - Physicist: First to use radar to take measurements of the moon
Antal Bejczy - Engineer - Developed Mars Rover "Sojourner," and Pathfinder's Remote Control System
George von Bekesy - Nobel Prize 1961 - "For his discoveries concerning the physical mechanisms of stimulation within the cochlea."
Laszlo "Laci" Bellak - Table Tennis Legend - Seven-time World Champion, Hall of Famer
Laszlo Benedek - Producer/Director
Pal Benko - Legendary Chess Champion Grand Master - only man to beat Bobby Fisher in ' 62 and US Chess Hall of Famer
Count Moric Benyovszky - Emperor of Madagascar!
Count Laszlo Bercsenyi - Huszár, Founder of the modern French Cavalry! Marshal of France
Gabor Bernath - Inventor, Computer Prodigy: at 15 Invented the commercially viable 3d Scanner, "ScanGuru," and won the 50th Intel ISEF
Peter Besenyei - World Champion Aerobat
Jozsef Laszlo Biro - Inventor - Developed the ballpoint pen in 1938 AND the automatic gearbox for automobiles.
Otto Blathy - One in the "Great Triad"of Electrical Engineers at Ganz: Father of the electric transformer, the tension regulator, the watt meter, the alternating current motor, the turbogenerator and high efficiency turbogenerator.
Hugo Bockh - Geologist who discovered Iran's oil fields
Ladislau (Laszlo) Boloni - Soccer Player and Rumanian National Team Head Coach
Farkas Bolyai - Mathematician
Janos Bolyai - Mathematician - Discovered non-Euclidian hyperbolic geometry
Julius Boros - Golf Legend
Adrien Brody - Actor - Oscar Nominated for "The Pianist"
Imre Brody - Physicist: Father of the Krypton Electric Bulb
Joe Bugner - (WBF) World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Australian Heavyweight Champion - Fought Muhammad Ali for the world title twice!
Robert Capa - Acclaimed Photojournalist: "One of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th century" and "The Greatest War Photographer in the World"
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Renowned Psychologist - Father of "Flow Theory," former Chair of University of Chicago's Department of Psychology, and Bestselling Author
Marton Csokas - Acclaimed Actor - Recently "Celeborn, King of Lothlorien," In Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"
Sandor Korosi Csoma - Explorer! Explorer! "Father of Tibetan Studies and Buddhist Culture"! Presented the world with the first Tibetan dictionary and grammar
Janos Csonka - Co-Invented the carburetor
Larry Csonka - Miami Dolphins' Perfect Season Super Bowl Runningback, Super Bowl VIII MVP and Hall of Famer.
Tivadar Csontvary (Kosztka) - Famed Painter: Picasso once chided Chagall that he could not produce a painting half as good as one of Csontvary's!
Gabor Csupo - Leader of the new generation of animation. 5 EMMYS and 2 CABLE ACE Awards - produced Rugrats and the Simpsons
Charles Csuri - "Father of Digital Art!"
George Cukor - Double Oscar-Winning Director
Jamie Lee Curtis - Actress...Best Legs in Hollywood?
Tony Curtis - Oscar-Nominated Actor, Artist, and Hollywood Legend!
Michael Curtiz - Oscar Winning Director of "Casablanca"
Huba Wass de Czege - Brigadier General, US Army Founding Director of the US Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies and Architect of AirLand Battle Doctrine
Georges Cziffra - World-renowned, Legendary Concert Pianist: The "virtuoso showman at the keyboard!"
Joseph Dallos - Physician - The First Modern, Molded Contact Lenses!
Frank Darabont - Director/Writer - Two Oscar Nominations for The Green Mile, "One of the best writer/directors of his generation"
Nicholas Deak - Banker, Finanacier. Received the surrender of the Japanese in Burma in WWII. Founder of Deak-Perera, the nation's "oldest and largest foreign exchange and precious metals investment firm
Robert Deak - Banker, Financier and Father of the Secured Credit Card
Mihaly Denes - Mechanical Engineer - Father of Sound Film and Television Broadcasting: Produced the first television program in history!
Miksa Deri - One in the "Great Triad"of Electrical Engineers at Ganz: Developed A/C electric generator
Dr. Hans von Dohnanyi - WWII hero of German resistance!
Kristof (Christoph) von Dohnanyi - Conductor (Cleveland) of the "Country's Greatest Orchestra"
Erno (Ernst) von Dohnanyi - Pianist, composer, conductor, and pedagogue
Antal Dorati - Acclaimed Conductor and Composer
Istvan Dorogi - Chemical Engineer / Inventor: Father of Mass Produced Inflatable Toys, Forms and Figures!
Krisztina Egerszegi - 5-time Olympic Gold Medalist: "Greatest Backstroke Swimmer of All Time," youngest Olympic Champion of all time, and only woman to win five gold medals in individual swimming events!
St. Elizabeth of Hungary - Giver of Charity, Patroness of Hospitals
Baron Lorand Eotvos - Mathematician: Developed one of the first steps towards relativity theory. Inventions made it possible to explore for natural resources like oil, coal, and different ores
Arthur Erdelyi - Mathematician - His works are cited as "the most widely cited mathematical works of all time and a basic reference source for generations of applied mathematicians and physicists throughout the world."
Paul Erdos - Legendary Mathematician: Revered by colleagues and considered to be the "most brilliant mind in his field," he collaborated with so many mathematicians that the phenomenon of the "Erdos Number" evolved
Joe (Joszef) Eszterhas - Prolific Screenwriter (Basic Instinct, Sliver, Flashdance) "Highest-paid writer in Hollywood"
Jeno Fejes - Engineer, Inventor - first in the world who submitted patents for manufacturing automobile parts by cold-forming, pressing, torch- or spot-welding.
Gyula Fenyi - Physicist: First to prove that the frequency of solar protuberances varies according to the number of sun spots
Philip Figyelmessy - US Inspector General during Civil War
Charles Fleischmann - Founder of the famous Standard Brands Yeast Company of Fleischmann's Yeast fame
Eugene Fodor - Founder of "Fodor's Travel Guides"
Albert Fono - Mechanical Engineer - Received the first patent on airplane jet propulsion and enabled aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound. Also developed Aerial Torpedoes, Jet Artillery, Air Compressors
William Fox - Producer and Hollywood Mogul - Founder of Fox Studios!
Milton Friedman - Nobel Prize 1976 - "for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy" - the best known living economist
The Gabor Sisters - Actresses with a temper!
Dennis Gabor - Nobel Prize 1971 - "for his investigation and development of holography"
Joseph Galamb - Ford Chief Engineer: Designed the Model T and Model A Ford, the Fordson Tractor, invented the Ignition Plug and the Planetary Gearbox, and prepared the production of Liberty aircraft engines
Eva Gardos - Acclaimed Screenwriter, Director, and Editor
Charles Gati - Political Scientist, Author, Foreign Policy Advisor, Professor
Mitzi Gaynor - Legendary Actress / Singer / Dancer: Star of "South Pacific"
Uri Geller - Psychic/Entertainer
Peter Gergely - Architect and Structural Engineer: Founder of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering
Peter & Charlie Gogolak - All-Pro Football Players - Longest Field Goal and all-time leading scorer in New York Giants history!
Karl Goldmark - Composer
Peter Carl Goldmark - Engineer, CBS Chief Scientist - Invented the Color Television, 33 1/3 LP Record, and the Electronic Video Recorder! National Medal of Science
Peter Goldmark, Jr. - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the International Herald Tribune
Pal Greguss - Chemical Engineer and Physicist: invented the Pál-Optic used in NASA's Deep Space Program
Andy Grove - Former President/CEO, and Chairman of Intel. Time's Man of the Year for 1998! That's the second Hungarian to be awarded this honor!
Lou "The Toe" Groza - NFL Football Player: Record-setting Tackle and Placekicker for the Cleveland Browns - 9 Pro-Bowls, Hall of Famer
Alfred Haar - Mathematician: Introduced a measure on groups, now called the Haar measure, used by von Neumann, and other notables
Eugene Hainer - US Congressman, 1893, 1895, from Lincoln, Nebraska
George "Papa Bear" Halas - Legendary Hall of Fame Football Coach: Father of the NFL
Robert Halmi, Sr. - Producer, "Tele-Visionary," Chairman of Hallmark Entertainment, the most prolific producer in TV history: multiple Emmy Award winner and 1999 Peabody Award winner
Col. Agoston Haraszthy - "Father of California Wine Culture!" - Ronald Reagan
Mariska Hargitay - Actress (Law and Order. ER, Leaving Las Vegas)
Mickey (Miklos) Hargitay - Mr. Universe!
John Harsanyi - Nobel Prize 1994 - "For his pioneering analysis of equilibrium in the theory of non-cooperative games." Shared prize with A Beautful Mind's John Nash
Stefan Hatos - Television producer of "Let's Make a Deal" fame
Goldie Hawn - Very Cute Actress and Academy Award Nominee for Private Benjamin. Tentative honoree
Miksa Herz - Architect - known in Egypt as Pasha Herz
Theodor Herzl - Founder of the Zionist Movement
George de Hevesy - Nobel Prize 1943 - "For his pioneering work with isotopes as tracers." Winner of Atom for Peace Award 1959
Martina Hingis - Tennis Superstar! At 17, she became the youngest #1 ranked player ever and is the youngest to ever win and defend a Grand Slam Title.
Harry Houdini - The "Greatest Magician on Earth," Actor, Pioneer Pilot
Alan Mackenzie Howard - Actor
Leslie Howard - Actor - 'Gone With the Wind"
Al Hrabosky - "The Mad Hungarian" Great relief pitcher
Jeno Hubay - Violin Virtuoso, Romantic Composer - The "Prince of the Violin" and Founder of the legendary modern Hungarian Violin School
Janos Hunyadi - Military leader and statesman. First to stop the Ottoman Turks!
Emeric (Imre) Ienei - Soccer Player and Rumanian National Team Head Coach
Janos Irinyi - Chemist - Invented safety matches!
Ernest Istook - US Congressman, Republican from Oklahoma, Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee, Co-Chair of the Hungarian Caucus in the US House of Representatives
Anyos Jedlik - Priest, Engineer, Physicist, Inventor - Father of the Dynamo
Stephen (Steven, Istvan) Kaali - Medical Pioneer, Inventor - Patented Bio Electrical Blood Cleansing Device for AIDS and other blood diseases
Janos Kabay - First to isolate morphine directly from the plant
Frida Kahlo - Acclaimed Artist and Mexican Icon: One of the most influential artists of the middle twentieth century
Rudolf Emil Kalman - Developed the Kálmán Filter which is the " greatest discovery in statistics in our century." Kalman filtering is also the method used in GPS (Global Positioning Systems) for navigation
Kalman Kando - Inventor, Engineer - Discovered triple phase high tension current for electric locomotion and industrial applications. Father of Modern Electric Trains!
Moricz Kohn Kaposi - Physician and Dermatologist: Discovered Kaposi's Sarcoma
Theodore von Karman - Aeronautical Engineer & Mathematician. The Father of the Supersonic Flight and a founder of the aeronautical and astronautical sciences. Designed the first rocket to reach interstellar space!
Bela and Marta (Martha) Karoly - U.S. Gymnastics Coaches to Nadia and Mary Lou
Sgt. Leopold Karpeles - Civil War Hero - Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
John Kemeny - Mathematician, President of Dartmouth: "Father of Microcomputing," developed BASIC computer language
Farkas Kempelen de Pazmand - Inventor - First Speaking Machine - first experimental phonetician
Gyorgy Kepes - Painter, designer, author and educator who founded and directed the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT
Andre Kertesz - Acclaimed photographer
Imre Kertesz - Nobel Prize 2002 - "For writing that upholds the tragic experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"
Kincsem - "The greatest racehorse of all time"
Karch Kiraly - 3-time Olympic Gold Medalist and Professional Volleyball Player: "The King" and Player of the Century
Christina Kiss - Renowned Pianist: one of the foremost Liszt interpreters of our time
Calvin Klein - American Fashion King!
Brigadier General Frederick Knefler - Civil War Hero: "Hungarian Patriot and American General" - highest rank attained in the Union army by a member of the Jewish faith.
Mark and David Knopfler - Legendary, Grammy Award-winning Rock Musicians of Dire Straits: "The Sultans of Rock" and "the finest British band of all time."
Sgt. Matej Kocak - WWI Hero - DOUBLE Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
Sandor Kocsis - Soccer Legend: The "The Man With The Golden Head"
Zoltan Kocsis - Piano Virtuoso and Composer
Zoltan Kodaly - Composer, educator, ethnomusicologist, linguist, author and philosopher
Arthur Koestler - Author/Playwright
Lajos Koltai, HSC - Cinematographer - Oscar Nomination
Sir Alexander Korda - Legendary, Oscar Nominated Producer / Director: A "Hollywood Renegade" & Founding Member of The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers. Founder and guiding force behind the British film industry and "Savior of the British film industry."
Vincent Korda -Oscar Winning Film Art Director
Zoltan Korda - Acclaimed Director
Janos Kornai - Economist, Harvard Professor: Developed the "economics of shortage" theory
Bernie Kosar - Superbowl winning Quarterback. Played for the Browns, Cowboys and the Dolphins!
Mihaly Kotai - Boxer - WBF Super Welterweight Champion and world-title contender - "The Ace of Tokai"
Ernie Kovacs - Actor, Broadcast Pioneer, and Legendary Comedian and T.V. Personality Three Emmy Awards in the 1956-57 TV season.
Laszlo Kovacs ASC - Legendary Cinematographer
Col. Michael de Kovats - US Military Hero!- Founding Father of the US Cavalry!
Brigadier General Eugene A. Kozlay - Civil War Hero: Organized the 54th New York Infantry Regiment
Hon. Tom Lantos - 11-term U.S. Congressman from California
Erno Laszlo - Dermatologist and Cosmetics Tycoon: Father of Modern Skincare Products
Estee Lauder - Cosmetic Queen! Founder of the current world cosmetics leader!
Leonard A. Lauder - White House Advisor and Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.
Ronald S. Lauder - US Ambassador to Vienna, Deputy Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy, philanthropist and businessman.
Benjamin Lax - Electrical Engineer / Physicist: Founder and Director of Francis Bitter National Magnetic Laboratories (MIT); Professor of Physics, Emeritus (MIT); Semiconductor and magneto-optics pioneer; Radar Pioneer: developed the radar height and range finder and discovered radar meteorology.
Peter Lax - Renowned and Prolific Applied Mathematician and "one of the greatest figures in pure and applied mathematics of our times."
Franz Lehar - Foremost composer of 20th century operettas
Fulop von Lenard - Nobel Prize 1905 - "For his studies in x-rays and the cathode ray tube"
Menyhert Lengyel - Oscar Nominated Writer, Producer, and Broadway and Film Director
Gyorgy Ligeti - Composer and 20th Century Musical Pioneer: One of the world’s best known living composers - featured on 2001: A Space Odyssey
Franz Liszt - Classical Composer, "Greatest Pianist of All Time"
Lajos Loczy - First to make geological survey of the Trans-Himalaya mountain chain
Stefan Lorant - Photographer / Editor / Filmmaker / Pioneering Journalist - Widely regarded as the first major editor of modern photojournalism and "the Godfather of Photojournalism"
Peter Lorre - Actor - Chaplin called him "the greatest actor alive"
Bela Lugosi - Actor - The Original Dracula!
J. Anthony Lukas - Acclaimed Author and Journalist . "One of America's most brilliant writers" and Winner of TWO Pulitzer Prizes!
Paul Lukas - Actor, Academy Award Winner for "Watch on the Rhine," in 1943
Janos Luppis - Naval Captain and Engineer: Co-Inventor of the Torpedo
Dezso Magyar - Chair, American Film Institute Conservatory, Master Filmmaker-in-Residence
The Magyar Tribes - Innovators: Invented The Stirrup and wooden-framed saddle; Leather Processing; the famous reflex bow; Beef Jerky; Mint Methods
Eva Marton - Heavenly Soprano
Kati Marton - Acclaimed journalist & best-selling author
Ilona Massey - Actress
Maria Mednyanszky - Legendary Table Tennis Champion - First official female World Champion
Joe Medwick - Baseball Superstar: World-Series Slugger, Hall of Famer, "The Muscular Magyar"
Col. Geza Mihaloczy - Civil War Hero: Organized the famed "Lincoln Riflemen"
Jozsef Mihalyi - Engineer / Inventor: Co-Developed Automatic Camera, Chief Designer at Kodak
Ferenc Molnar - Playwright: part of the "Hungarian Invasion" of New York Theatre
S/Sgt Frankie "Zoly" Molnar - Vietnam War Hero - Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
Miklos Molnar - Soccer Star: Danish "Golden Boot," Kansas City Wizards, International - His nickname is "Danish Dynamite" for his explosive scoring ability
Alanis Morrisette - Multi-Platinum-selling Singer, Songwriter - 7 Grammy Awards! One of the VH1: 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll
Charles Nagy - World Series Pitcher (Cleveland Indians), 3-time All Star, & Olympics Gold Medal Winner!
Laszlo Moholy - Nagy, Avant-Garde Painter, designer, and experimental photographer: A Founder of Constructivism, Professor and Director at the Bauhaus School of Design, Chicago, and Founder and head of the Chicago Institute of Design
Joe Namath (Németh) Sports Hero, Super Bowl Quarterback and MVP (New York Jets), and Hall of Famer
John von Neumann - Legendary Mathematician, Physicist, Logician, and Computing Pioneer: Co-developed the Atomic Bomb. Father of Binary Code and the Stored Program Computer, Father of Game Theory. Key in development of U.S. ballistic missile program
Paul Newman - Oscar Winning Actor - Eight Oscar Nominations!
George Olah - Nobel Prize 1994 - "For his contribution to carbocation chemistry: the study of hydrocarbons, the ingredients of oil and natural gas, and his discovery of new ways to use them"
Edward James Olmos - Oscar and Tony Nominated and Emmy Award Winning Actor, Producer, Director, and Activist. The "Olivier of the Latino World" and People's 2000 Sexiest Man Alive
Eugene Ormandy - Renowned Conductor (Philadelphia)
Tom Orosz - NFL Football Player - Superbowl Punter for the Miami Dolphins #3
Egon Orowan (Orován) - Applied Physicist
George Pal - Cartoonist/Animator of "War of the Worlds" - Winner of SIX Oscars, and pioneer of stop-action animation!
Ziggy Pallfy - Hockey Phenom - Top Scorer for the NY Islanders and LA Kings - sixth in the NHL in scoring!
Laszlo Papp - Legendary Boxer: Only man in history to win 3 consecutive Olympic Gold Medals
Joseph Pasternak - Film Producer/Director
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor - Costume Designer: designed costumes for 20 major feature films
George Pataki - Governor, New York
Ferenc Pavlics - Engineer: Developed NASA's Moon Rover and Directed Development of the Mars Rover
Eszter Pecsi - Structural Engineer - designer of the first reinforced-concrete skyscraper! First woman to receive a degree in engineering in Hungary (1920)
Jozsef Petzval - Inventor: A Founder of Photography: His Work allowed for construction of modern cameras and made practical portrait-photography possible. Invented Photographic Objective Lens, Darkroom, Opera Glass, and perfected the telescope
Sandor (Alexander) Pfitzner - Engineer: Designed the first American Monoplane for Curtiss
Sylvia Plachy - Acclaimed Photographer, Mother of Actor Adrien Brody
John Polanyi - Nobel Prize 1986 - "For contributions to the development of a new field of research in chemistry - reaction dynamics." Founder of Reaction Dynamics
Zsuzsa (Susan), Judit (Judith), and Zsofia (Sofia) Polgar - Chess Grand Masters and Olympic Gold Medalists! - Judith has been called the Greatest Female Player of all Time!
George Polya - Mathematician: "The Great Teacher"
Colonel George Pomutz - Civil War Hero: Appointed US Consul General to St. Petersburg, Russia.
Geza Pozsar - U.S. Gymnastics National Team Coach and Choreographer
Janos Prohaska - Actor/Stuntman
Ferenc Puskas - Soccer Legend: The "Greatest Soccer Player in History!"
Freddie Prinze, Jr. - Actor and Heart-Throb! "Young Hollywood's Leading Man"
Freddie Prinze Sr. - Actor, Comedian
Joseph Pulitzer - Publishing Tycoon: Responsible for building of the Statue of Liberty
Tivadar Puskas - Inventor, Thomas Edison's Colleague - Devised the idea of using telephone exchanges between subscribers, invented the switchboard and built Europe's first telephone exchange. Coined the term "Hello"
S/Sgt. Laszlo Rabel - US Military Hero! Congressional Medal of Honor
Elemer Ragalyi - Acclaimed, Emmy Award Winning Cinematographer
Tommy Ramone - Drummer and Producer of the Legendary, Pioneering Punk Rockers, The Ramones!
Deszo Ranki - Renowned Concert Pianist - with Kocsis, the "Golden Boys of the Magyar Keyboard"
Fritz Reiner - Legendary Conductor: A "Foremost Conductor of his Time" and "Genius Orchestra Builder"
Imre Reiner - Painter, Sculptor, Illustrator, and Renowned Type Designer of "Reiner Script" fame!
Maria Judith Reményi - Miss USA 1966
Alfred Renyi - Mathematician. Discovered "one of the strongest methods of analytical number theory"
Frigyes Riesz - Mathematician. Riesz was a founder of functional analysis and his work has many important applications in physics
Odon Riszdorfer - Engineer / Inventor: Co-Developed Automatic Camera and Automatic Shutter for Movie Cameras. Father of the hand held, battery operated light meter.
Donald Lawrence Ritter - US Congressman, Republican from Pennsylvania
Ferenc Rofusz - Animator: Oscar in 1981 for his animated film, "The Fly" (A Légy) - the first Hungarian Oscar for a cartoon.
Anna M. Rosenberg - Under-Secretary of Defense in Truman Cabinet. Medal of Freedom in 1945 and Medal of Merit in 1947
George Rosencrantz - Chemist, Businessman, Founder of Syntex, the number seventeen world-ranked drug firm, the developer of Aleve
Miklos Rozsa - Triple Oscar Winning Film Music Composer
Erno Rubik - Mathematician, Inventor of Rubik's Cube!
Leopold Ruzicka - Nobel Prize 1939 - "For his work on polymethylenes & higher terpenes"
S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall - Famed Character Actor, from Casablanca fame
Sylvia Sass - Another Heavenly Soprano, "the New Callas"
Bela Schick - Pediatric Doctor / Researcher: Pioneer in immunology - Devised the "Schick test" for determining susceptibility to diphtheria.
Andras Schiff - Acclaimed Classical Pianist
Claude-Michel Schonberg - Acclaimed Grammy and Tony Award-winning Writer, Composer, and Producer of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon
Friedrich Schorr - Renowned "mahogany-colored" Bass- Baritone
Gerard Schurmann - World-renowned Double Oscar Winning Composer: Orchestrated Lawrence of Arabia and Exodus
David Schwartz - Inventor - Father of the Dirigible Air Ship or Zeppelin
Thomas A. Sebeok (Sebők) - Father of Modern Semiotics (the study of signs and non-verbal communication)
Janos Andras Segner - Father of the Water Turbine: First scientist to use reactive force and made substantial contributions to the theory of Dynamics
Jerry Seinfeld - Actor / Comedian: American Icon! The most successful and influential comedian of his generation!
Paul Selenyi - Physicist and Father of Electrostatics / Photoconductivity Pioneer - first to record images with an electrostatic marking process: the foundation of Xerography!
Monica Seles - Tennis Superstar - She has won 9 Grand Slam singles titles and bronze in Sydney 2000!
Hans Selye - Physician, Endocrinologist, Researcher - Founder of the concept of Stress: The "Einstein of Medicine!"
Ignac Semmelweis - Physician, "The Mothers' Savior"
Don Shula - Legendary Hall of Fame Football Coach (the 17-0 Miami Dolphins!) Winningest Coach in NFL History
Gene Simmons - Legendary Tongue and Rock-n-Roller of KISS!
Paul Simon - Musician, Singer, Songwriter - American Legend of Simon & Garfunkel" fame! 12 Grammys and Rock-n-Roll Hall of Famer
Charles Simonyi - Computer Scientist and Chief Architect, Microsoft Corporation: Father of WYSIWYG and Hungarian Notation
Denis Sinor - Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Indiana University Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Uralic and Altaic Studies
Anna Sipos - Table Tennis Legend - first female player to use the "pen holder grip"
Sir Georg Solti -Acclaimed Conductor: Record number of Grammys
Mihaly Somogyi - Chemist: Produced first Child Insulin Treatment in US - Developed the "Somogyi test" for the diagnosis of diabetes
George Soros - "The world's greatest money manager" and Great Progressive Philanthropist.
Brent Spiner - Actor and Trekkies' favorite android, Lieutenant Commander Data!
Major-General Julius H. Stahel Számwald - US Military Hero! Congressional Medal of Honor
Sir Aurel Stein - "The most prodigious combination of scholar, explorer, archaeologist and geographer of his generation" - The "Sven Hedin of England" - pioneered the use of aerial photography in archaeology.
George Stigler - Nobel Prize 1982 - "For his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation"
Elvis Stojko - "King of the Ice" - 3-time World Champion, 7-time Canadian National Champion, and 2-time Olympic Silver Medalist!
Miklos Szabados - Table Tennis Legend - second only to Barna
Ekaterina (Katalin) Szabo - Champion Gymnast: Four Olympic Gold Medals and One Silver in Los Angeles
Gabor Szabo - JJazz Great: One of the "most original and outstanding improvisational guitarists of the 20th century"
Istvan Szabo - Director, Writer, Producer - Academy Award in 1981
Professor Szalay - Father of British Weightlifting
Chef Louis Szathmary - Legendary Chef and founder of Chicago's "The Bakery" - father of the "Stouffer's frozen dinner"
Gabor Szego - Mathematician: Head of University of Stanford Mathematics
Pierre Szekely - Renowned Sculptor and Architect - the "Incessant Adventurer"
George Szell - Conductor
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi von Nagyrapolt - Nobel Prize 1937 - "For his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion process with special reference to vitamin C & the catalysis of fumaric acid." First to isolate Vitamin C
Leo Szilard - Physicist: Co-developed the Atomic Bomb. Physicist - Co-developed the Atomic Bomb: Conceived the nuclear chain reaction and campaigned for nuclear disarmament, though the first to consider the application of the atom to making bombs. Achieved first sustained nuclear fission reaction with Enrico Fermi. Identified the unit or "bit" of information
Kornel Szilvay - Officer in the Hungarian Fire Brigade: Father of the Dry Fire Extinguisher!
Henrietta Szold - Founder of Hadassah
Pvt. William L. S. Tabor - Civil War Hero - Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
Jeffrey Tambor - Actor
Count Samuel Teleki - Explorer! Led the famous East-Africa Expedition
Maria Telkes - Chemist, Engineer: Pioneer of Solar Energy: "Mother of the Solar Home," "The "Sun Queen," and "world's most famous woman inventor in solar energy."
Edward (Ede) Teller - Physicist: Co-developed the Atomic Bomb. Discovered BET equation. Father of the the H-Bomb
Joe Theismann - Legendary Two-time Superbowl Quarterback for the Washington Redksins
Lou Thesz - Legend of Professional Wrestling, "Wrestling's True Icon"
Kalman Tihanyi - Physicist: Father of the Picture Tube and Television Pioneer (NOT Zworykin) - Invented the Picture Tube (Iconoscope), Infrared-sensitive (night vision) television, and Flat TV Tube
Ivan Tors - Producer/Director, Underwater Film Pioneer
Andre de Toth - Director - Oscar Nomination, "The Gunfighter"
Paul Turan - Mathematician: Erdos's closest friend and collaborator and Great Hungarian number theorist
Steven Ferencz Udvar-Hazy - Business Tycoon, Aircraft Leasing Pioneer, and GREAT Philanthropist - Father of the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center
Colonel George Utassy - US Civil War Hero: Organized the famed Garibaldi Guard
Albert Vadas (Wadas) - Spanish American War Hero - Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
Janos Vas - Hockey Player - Dallas Stars
Major Gyula Vari - Hungarian Air Force, Acclaimed Fighter Pilot - First pilot to win consecutive titles at Fairford's Royal International Air Tattoo
Andrew Vajna - Producer, Hollywood Legend: President of Cinergi Productions, co-Founder of Carolco Pictures
Robert Varkonyi - Poker World Series Champion of 2002! First Ever to Win 2 Million!
Viktor Vasarely - Famed painter known for his geometrical forms, he is the father of Op-Art
Bishop Faustus Verancsics - Invented the air turbine
Peter Vermes - Soccer Star: Kansas City Wizards, US National Team (captain), International
Adrienne Vittadini - Renowned Fashion Designer and Businesswoman
Andre Watts - Acclaimed Classical Pianist - one of the "Great Pianists of the 20th Century"
Rachel Weisz - Actress and Model (The Mummy, Enemy at the Gates, Stealing Beauty, Sunshine, Beautiful Creatures)
Jules White - Four-time Oscar-Nominated Producer / Director of "The Three Stooges" and More!
Elie Wiesel - Nobel Prize 1986 - "For his dedication to peace, atonement, and human dignity"
Eugene Wigner - Nobel Prize 1963 - "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles" Co-developed the atomic bomb, developed first breeder reactor, and is known as the Founder of Nuclear Engineering
Debra Winger - Actress - 2 Oscar Nominations!
Major Charles Zagonyi - "The Union Forever!" Led the famous Civil War "Zágonyi Death Ride"
Karoly Zipernowsky - A/C Electronics Pioneer! One in the "Great Triad"of Electrical Engineers at Ganz: Founder of heavy-current electrical engineering
Vilmos Zsigmond (ASC) - Legendary Cinematographer - Oscar Winner and Multiple Oscar Nominations!
Richard Zsigmondy - Nobel Prize 1925 - "For his work on methods in the study of colloid chemistry"
Adolph Zukor - "Mr. Motion Pictures" and Oscar Winner
Special Thanks To:
Judit Györgyey Ries of the University of Texas, Department of Astronomy for her correction and information on John von Neumann.
M.E. Pflieger for his contribution of Peter Lorre and András Schiff.
Feri Zsuppán, Ph.D., of Duke University, for his quotation from Albert Szent-Györgyi seen under the title.
Paul Szilágyi, Ph.D., in Florida for his information on Von Neumann and Szilárd and contributions of Zukor, Benedek, Rosencrantz, Tors, Udvarhelyi, Kertész, Benko, and Deák.
Al Boyd, of the University of Maryland, for his contribution of Alfred Schorr.
The Lónyay's for their contributions of de Kovats, Haraszthy, Puskás, Bolyai, Irinyi, Pólya, and Pázmánd! Great contributions! Thanks Amigos! You are now very "in" famous. Other information which the Lonyay's provided me was from the following books - Our Hungarian Heritage by Albert Wass (c)1975 Danubian Press and The Spirit of Hungary by Stephen Sisa. These are great books, check 'em out.
Gene Dannen, and his Leo Szilard Home Page!
Andrew J. Rózsa, Ph.D. in Birmingham, Alabama for Miklós Rozsa, General de Czege, Zinfandel info. on Haraszthy and Alexander Korda.
Mike & Naomi Tronzo for their contribution of Ilona Massey.
Johanne Tournier in Canada for her information and research on Béla Lugósi and contribution of Houdini! Great homepage!
Professor Edward Chászár in Virginia for lending me a copy of (which I returned late!) Rezsoe and Margaret Gracza's informative book, "The Hungarians in America, (c)1969 Lerner Publications. LOC #68-31503.
Miklós Békefi for his corrections on accent marks! Also his contribution of the Associated Press Article on Hungarians in the Arts.
Kása Zoltán from the University of Kolozsvár and Urszenyi Gábor from California for their contribution of Erdôs Pál.
George Furmann in Canada for Nicholas Hungaricus! Szathmary
"El Abogado" Juan Luis Boldizsár in Chicago for Chef Louis.
Andrew M. Gombos, Jr., in Houston, Texas for Hraboski, "The Mad Hungarian"
Zsolt Szalavari in Austria for Charles Csuri!
Szisz (Kiss Szilárd) from the University of Kolozsvár, Transylvania for his contribution of Rubik.
László Aranyos for his contribution of Goldmark and Vasarely.
Géza Hartai from Plano, Texas for Ferenc Rofusz.
Steve Colman (Kálmán Pista) for his contribution and editorial on Kémény and Mikes
Valentin Poncos in Canada for his contributions of Haar, Kalman, and Riesz.
The History of Mathematics Archive at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland for their superb collection.
Richard diSilvio, owner of the Franz Liszt Page for Christina Kiss.
Barry Hanger, for Frank Capa
Stephen Elekes in Hungary for S.Z. Sakall
Chris Golya at the Centre for New Media Research, School of Art, Design and Media, University of Portsmouth, UK for Moholy-Nagy, Kertesz, and additional biographical data on Biro
Miklos Racz in Virginia for Petzval, Herzl, Lehar, Hunyadi, Moholy-Nagy
Al Cunniff and Vladimir Korovkin for Gabor Szabo
Prof. Tom Barthel from the City College of New York for Joe Medwick
Andre Mommen in the Netherlands for Varga and Kornai
Gordon Woodworth for Peter Gogolak trivia!
Attila Zseni alias Zsenya in Hungary for contact lens developer, Dallos Joszef, Imre Kálmán, and Tivadar Csontvary.
Dezso Nyitray for Gene Simmons of KISS and Gábor Csupó!
Kati S. Maharry at Indiana University School of Medicine (Ooey Pooey) for Calvin Klein!
Laramie Banks for history and bibliography on Peter Karl Goldmark
Joseph Laszlo Kupan, in California, for biographical data on Charles Simonyi, Steven Udvar-Hazy, Jeffrey Tambor, Jerry Seinfeld, and Paul Simon
Prof. Tom Barthel for Joe Medwick
Mihaly Lorincz for Kincsem
USA Gymnastics for the information on Geza Pozar
Andrew Sarkany for submitting Kristina Egerszegi
Barry Hanger for biographical information on Robert Capa
Marc for Rachel Weisz
Paul Hazuda and Ricardo Creisstoff for the Freddy Prinzes
Enike Smith for Edward James Olmos and Mariska Hargitay
Gabor Piros for submission of Hans Selye
Janos Bimbo for Lou Thesz
Lászlo Gergely in Hungary for information related to pilot phenom Gyula Vári
Stephen Beszedits for his biographical data on many of many of the miltary heroes
Alice Egyed, Ph.D. and Martha Bihari for Andras Schiff
Amanda Sowards for Director/Writer Frank Darabont
Julianna Anda for her Father's cousin, renowned pianist, Geza Anda
Al Miller for Mitzi Gaynor
Dr. Daniel A. Lowy and Martha Bihari for Gyorgy Ligeti
György Takács in Sweden for the Knopflers of Dire Straits and Alanis Morissette
Joe Schmidt for Paul Simon (and Timothy Johnson), Joe Bugner, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Florian Albert, Jules White, Eugene Fodor, and Viktor Barna
Fred Mintz for Tommy Ramone
Martha Bihari for Gerard Schurmann
Marc Witorsch for Adrien Brody
Istvan Szoke for Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Lola for Adrienne Vittadini, and Pierre Szekely
Lisa Doyle for Marton Csokas
Zsuzsanna Cseke for Ranki and Perenyi
Andy Vella for Don Adams!
Judith Meszaros for Ziggy Palffy.
Gail Bernas for Peter Lax
Jozsef "Joe" Urmos for Janos Prohaska
Pál Breuer for Egon Orovan, Elemer Ragalyi, Charles Gati
Veronica Saldanha Marinho in Brazil for her uncle, Artist and Typographer Imre Reiner
Ellen Rozsa for Kati Maton
Andy "New York Jets" Kovalev for Mihaly Kotai and Joe Theismann.

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