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This is a '''list of Hungarian Jews'''.  There has been a [[Jew]]ish presence in today's Hungary since [[Roman Empire|Roman times]] (bar a brief expulsion during the [[Black Death]]), long before the actual Hungarian nation. Jews fared particularly well under the [[Ottoman Empire]], and after [[Jewish emancipation|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.

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 descendants of Hungarian émigrés born in America, a significant number of whom are of Jewish ancestry.

The names are presented in the Western European convention of the given name preceding the family name, whereas in Hungary, the reverse is true, as in most Asian cultures.

==Historical figures==
[[File:PikiWiki Israel 6702 People of Israel.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Theodor Herzl]]]]
* [[Leó Frankel]], one of the leaders of the Paris Commune
* [[Gyula Germanus]], islamologist, (non-Jewish mother, Jewish father)
* [[Ignác Goldziher]], islamologist
* Tivadar Herzl ([[Theodor Herzl]]), "the spiritual father of the Jewish State".<ref name="declaration">{{cite web |date=14 May 1948 |title=Declaration of Establishment of State of Israel |url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/peace/guide/pages/declaration%20of%20establishment%20of%20state%20of%20israel.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151228134825/http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/peace/guide/pages/declaration%20of%20establishment%20of%20state%20of%20israel.aspx |archive-date=28 December 2015 |website=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs}}</ref>{{efn|In the [[Israeli Declaration of Independence]], Theodor Herzl is officially referred to as "the spiritual father of the Jewish State".<ref name="declaration"/>}}
* [[Béla Kun]], de facto leader of Hungary for 4 months in 1919 (non-Jewish mother, Jewish father)
* [[Max Nordau]], co-founder of the World Zionist Organization
* [[Tom Lantos]]
* [[György Lukács]]
* [[Trebitsch Lincoln]], British adventurer<ref>{{cite web |last=Segal |first=Eliezer |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/040620_Trebisch.html |title=The Treacherous Mr. Trebisch |work=The Jewish Free Press |date=June 24, 2004 |page=10}}</ref>
* [[Georges Politzer]]
* [[Joseph Pulitzer]], newspaper publisher
* Sándor Radó ([[Alexander Radó]]) Switzerland-based Soviet master spy in World War II
* [[Mátyás Rákosi]], de facto leader of Hungary, 1947–1956
* [[Ervin Szabó]] director of the Budapest Public Library System, 1911–1918
* [[Tibor Szamuely]], politician<ref>{{cite book |last=Major |first=Mark Imre |year=1974 |url=http://www.hungarianhistory.com/lib/maj/maj06.htm |title=American Hungarian Relations, 1918-1944 |publisher=Danubian Press |pages=54–66 |isbn=9780879340360}}</ref>
* [[Ármin Vámbéry]], orientalist and traveler
* [[Vilmos Vázsonyi]], first Jewish Justice minister of Hungary, 1917–1918
* [[Félix Somló]], legal scholar known for his contributions to the Hungarian Legal Philosophy, 1873–1920

==Athletes==
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===Boxing===
[[File:György Gedó.jpg|160px|thumb|[[György Gedó]]]]
* [[György Gedó]], Olympic champion [[light flyweight]]

===Canoeing===
* [[László Fábián (canoeist)|László Fábián]], [[canoe racing|sprint canoer]], Olympic champion (K-2 10,000 meter), 4× world champion (3× K-2 10,000 meter and 1× K-4 10,000 meter) and one silver (K-4 10,000 meter)<ref name="books.google.com">Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 228.</ref>
* [[Imre Farkas (canoeist)|Imre Farkas]], sprint canoer, 2× Olympic bronze (C-2 1,000 and 10,000 meter)<ref name="books.google.com"/>
* [[Klára Fried-Bánfalvi]], sprint canoer, Olympic bronze (K-2 500 m), world champion (K-2 500 m)<ref>Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 229.</ref>
* [[Anna Pfeffer]], sprint canoer, Olympic 2× silver (K-2 500 m), bronze (K-1 500 m); world champion (K-2 500 m), silver (K-4 500 m), 2× bronze (K-2 500)<ref>Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 238.</ref>

===Fencing===
[[File:1912 Jenő Fuchs.JPG|160px|thumb|[[Jenő Fuchs]]]]
[[File:Petschauer Attila.jpg|160px|thumb|[[Attila Petschauer]]]]
* [[Péter Bakonyi (fencer born 1938)|Péter Bakonyi]] (born "Buchwald", 1938), saber, Olympic 3× bronze
* [[Ilona Elek]] (née "Schacherer"; 1907–1988), foil fencer; Olympic gold-medal winner, and world champion, both before and after World War II
* Dr. [[Dezső Földes]] (1880–1950), saber, 2× Olympic champion
* Dr. [[Jenő Fuchs]] (1882–1955), saber, 4× Olympic champion<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-wUg6rlWS2kC&pg=PA340 |title=Jewish Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History |author1=Frojimovics, Kinga |author2=Komoróczy, Géza |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=963-9116-37-8 |year=1999 |page=340}}</ref>
* [[Tamás Gábor]] (1932–2007), épée, Olympic champion
* [[János Garay (fencer)|János Garay]] (1889–1945), saber, Olympic champion, silver, bronze, killed by the Nazis
* Dr. [[Oskar Gerde]] (1883–1944), saber, 2× Olympic champion, killed by the Nazis<ref name="google1">Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 107.</ref>
* Dr. [[Sándor Gombos]] (1895–1968), saber, Olympic champion
* [[Endre Kabos]] (1906–1944), saber, 3× Olympic champion, bronze, killed while performing forced labour for the Nazis
* [[Attila Petschauer]] (1904–1943), saber, 2× team Olympic champion, silver, killed by the Nazis
* [[Zoltán Ozoray Schenker]] (1880–1966), Hungarian Olympic champion saber fencer
* [[Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő]] (born 1937), foil, 2× Olympic champion<ref name=ghetto>{{cite book |title=From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary|author=Handler, Andrew|isbn=0-88033-085-6 |publisher= East European Monographs|year=1985}}</ref>
* [[Lajos Werkner]] (1883–1943), saber, 2× Olympic champion
* [[George Worth]], born György Woittitz (1915–2006), Hungarian-born American Olympic medalist fencer

===Figure skating===
* [[Lily Kronberger]], World Championship 4× gold, 2× bronze, [[World Figure Skating Hall of Fame]]
* [[Emília Rotter]], pair skater, World Championship 4× gold, silver, 2× Olympic bronze
* [[László Szollás]], pair skater, World Championship gold, silver, 2× Olympic bronze

===Gymnastics===

* [[Samu Fóti]], Olympic silver (team combined exercises)
* [[Imre Gellért]], Olympic silver (team combined exercises)
* [[Ágnes Keleti]], 5-time Olympic champion (2-time floor exercises, asymmetrical bars, floor exercises, balance beam, team exercise with portable apparatus), 3-time silver (2-time team combined exercises, individual combined exercises), 2× bronze (asymmetrical bars, team exercises with portable apparatus), International Gymnastics Hall of Fame<ref name="jewishsports3">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/Tables/LastNameSearch.htm |title=Elected Members |publisher=International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Alice Kertész]], Olympic champion (team, portable apparatus), silver (team); world silver (team)<ref name="Taylor, p. 234">Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 234.</ref>

===Soccer (association football)===

* [[Gyula Bíró]], midfielder/forward (national team)<ref name=ghetto/><ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports |publisher=Bloch Publishing Company |year= 1965|author1=Postal, Bernard |author2=Silver, Jesse |author3=Silver, Roy |page=418}}</ref>
* [[Alfréd Brüll]], first owner of [[MTK Budapest FC]]
* [[Peter Fuzes]], born in Hungary; soccer goalkeeper for Sydney Hakoah club and Australia, Maccabi Hall of Fame 2003. Played 1st grade 1964 till 1976; International career from 1966 to 1972, against Scotland 1967, Greece 1969, Israel 1969 & 1972. Played against various European club sides including AS ROMA 1966, Manchester United.
* [[Sándor Geller]], goalkeeper, Olympic champion
* [[Béla Guttmann]], midfielder, national team player, and international coach
* [[Adolf Kertész]], Hungarian international
* [[Gyula Kertész]] (1888–1982), Hungarian international
* [[Vilmos Kertész]] (1890–1962), Hungarian international 
* [[Gyula Mándi]], half back (player & coach of Hungarian and Israeli national teams) and manager
* [[Árpád Orbán]], Olympic champion

===Swimming===
[[File:Hajos.jpg|160px|thumb|[[Alfréd Hajós]]]]
[[File:András Székely 1931.jpg|160px|thumb|[[András Székely]]]]
* [[Andrea Gyarmati]], Olympic silver (100-m backstroke) and bronze (100-m butterfly); world championships bronze (200-m backstroke), International Swimming Hall of Fame<ref name=autogenerated2 /> (both parents half-Jewish)
* [[Alfréd Hajós]] (born "Arnold Guttmann"), 3× Olympic champion (100-m freestyle, 800-m freestyle relay, 1,500-m freestyle), International Swimming Hall of Fame<ref name="jewishsports3"/>
* [[Michael Halika|Michael "Miki" Halika]], Israel, 200-m butterfly, 200- and 400-m individual medley
* [[József Munk]], Olympic silver (4x200-m freestyle relay)
* [[Rebecca Soni]], her grandfather was born in Nagyvárad (now Oradea)
* [[Mark Spitz]], his great-grandfather (Nathan) was born in Hungary
* [[László Szabados]], Olympic bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay)
* [[András Székely]], Olympic silver (200-m breaststroke) and bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay); died in a Nazi concentration camp
* [[Éva Székely]], Olympic champion & silver (200-m breaststroke); International Swimming Hall of Fame; mother of [[Andrea Gyarmati]]<ref name=autogenerated2 /> (mother Jewish, father Roman Catholic szekler)
* [[Judit Temes]], Olympic champion (4×100-m freestyle), bronze (100-m freestyle)<ref>{{cite book |last=Wechsler |first=Bob |year=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&pg=PA249 |title=Day by Day in Jewish Sports History |publisher=KTAV Publishing House, Inc |page=249 |isbn=978-1-60280-013-7}}</ref>
* [[Imre Zachár]], Olympic silver (4x200-m freestyle relay)

===Table tennis===
* [[Viktor Barna]] (born "Győző Braun"), 22-time world champion, International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame ("ITTFHoF")
* [[Laszlo Bellak]], 7-time world champion, ITTFHoF
* [[Anna Sipos]], 11-time world champion, ITTFHoF
* [[Miklós Szabados]], 15-time world champion
* [[Tibor Házi|Tibor Hazi]]
* [[Magda Gál|Magda Gal]]

===Tennis===
* [[Zsuzsa Körmöczy]], won 1958 French Open Singles, world # 2.

===Track and field===

* [[Ödön Bodor]], Olympic bronze (medley relay)<ref>Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 226.</ref>
* [[Ibolya Csák]], Olympic champion & European champion [[high jumper]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=jewish_athletes_medals&lang=en |title=Jewish Athletes – Olympic Medalists |publisher=[[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] |accessdate=February 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718211611/http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=jewish_athletes_medals&lang=en |archivedate=July 18, 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Mór Kóczán]], javelin, Olympic bronze<ref name="Taylor, p. 234"/> (Calvinist priest)

===Water polo===

* [[Robert Antal]], Olympic champion
* [[István Barta]], Olympic champion, gold
* [[György Bródy]], (3g1b & 2g & 2g), goalkeeper, 2-time Olympic champion<ref name=autogenerated2>Eisen, George. [http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm "Jewish Olympic Medalists"]. International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* [[Dezső Gyarmati]], Olympic [[water polo]] player & captain (3g1s1b) (half Jewish)<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite journal |last=Riess |first=Steven A. |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501k.pdf |title=From the Ghetto To The Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary (review) |journal=Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies |volume=5 |date=1996 |pages=153–158 |access-date=2012-06-26 |archive-date=2008-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529190441/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501k.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[György Kárpáti]], 3-time Olympic champion, 1 time bronze<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref>Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 93.</ref> (half Jewish)
* [[Béla Komjádi]] water polo player and coach, International Swimming Hall of Fame<ref>{{cite book |last=Siegman |first=Joseph |year=2000 |title=Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame |publisher=Brassey's Incorporated |isbn=9781574882841}}</ref>
* [[Mihály Mayer]], 2-time Olympic champion, 2-time bronze<ref>Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 236.</ref>
* [[Miklós Sárkány]], 2-time Olympic champion
* [[Iván Somlai]], 1976 Olympic Assistant Coach and Game Plan Manager of Team Canada

===Wrestling===
* [[Károly Kárpáti]] (also "Károly Kellner"), Olympic champion (freestyle lightweight), silver

===Other sports===
* Paul Havas, [[Columbia University|Columbia]] quarterback<ref name=autogenerated1b>{{cite web |url=http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=43658&SPID=3885&DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=924716&Q_SEASON=2008 |title=2011 Football Roster: Paul Havas |website=www.gocolumbialions.com}}</ref>
* Ferenc Kemény, co-founder and first secretary of the [[IOC]]<ref>[http://www.jewishsports.net/PillarAchievementBios/FerencKemeny.htm "Ferenc Kemeny (Kauffmann)"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061219150052/http://jewishsports.net/PillarAchievementBios/FerencKemeny.htm |date=2006-12-19 }}. International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* László Bartók, Rowing (Paris 1924 eight and coxed four, Amsterdam 1928 coxed four) and 1932 men's coxless four European Rowing Champion<ref>https://olympics.com/en/athletes/laszlo-bartok {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/67.html | title=Weltmeisterschaften (Herren - Teil 1) }}</ref>

==Olympic gold medalists at the Summer Games==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Period
! 1896-1912
! 1924-1936
! 1948-1956
! 1960-1972
! 1976-1992 (1984 excluded)
! 1996-2008
|-
| # of Olympics
| 5
| 4
| 3
| 4
| 4
| 4
|-
| Total Golds
| 442
| 482
| 440
| 684
| 903
|1172
|-
| Hungarian Golds
| 11
| 22
| 35
| 32
| 33
| 26
|-
| Hungarian/total World
| 2.49%
| 4.56%
| 7.95%
| 4.68%
| 3.65%
| 2.22%
|-
| Hungarian Individual Gold
|  9
| 17
| 26
| 22
| 27
| 16
|-
| Hungarian Jewish Individual
|  5
|  3
|  6
|  4
|  0
|  0
|-
| Jewish/total individual Hungarian
| 55.56%
| 17.65%
| 23.08%
| 18.18%
| 0%
| 0%
|-
| Jews in Gold Teams
| 57.14% = 8/14
| 28.21%= 11/39
|
|
|
|
|-
| Jews in population
| 5.0% (1910)
| 5.12% (1930)
| 1.45% (1949)
|
|
| 0.13% (2001)
|}

===Before the Holocaust===

Hungarian Jews, while comprising some 5% of the population of Hungary, won 8 individual gold medals for Hungary out of 26 (30.8%) in the Olympic sports events between 1896 and 1936. In each of the 7 gold winning teams, there were Hungarian Jews making up 35.8% of the teams (19 out of 53 team members).

====1896====
* Alfréd Hajós-Guttman (2) swimming, 100-meter freestyle, 1,500-meter freestyle

====1906====
* Alfréd Hajós-Guttman, swimming, 800-meter freestyle relay

====1908====
* Dezső Földes, fencing, team saber
* Dr.Jenő Fuchs (2), fencing, individual saber, team saber
* Dr. Oszkár Gerde, fencing, team saber
* Lajos Werkner, fencing, team saber
* Richard Weisz, Greco-Roman wrestling, heavyweight

====1912====
* Dezső Földes, fencing, team saber
* Dr. Jenő Fuchs (2), fencing, individual saber, team saber
* Dr. Oszkár Gerde, fencing, team saber
* Lajos Werkner, fencing, team saber

====1924====
* Alfred Hajós, Olympic art competition, architecture
* [[Gyula Halasy]], Gold Medal,  Individual Trap Competition

====1928====
* János Garay, fencing, team saber
* Dr. Sándor Gombos, fencing, team saber
* Attila Petschauer, fencing, team saber
* Dr. Ferenc Mező, Olympic art competition, epic works

====1932====
* István Barta, water polo
* György Brody, water polo
* Miklós Sárkány, water polo
* Endre Kabos, fencing, team saber
* Attila Petschauer, fencing, team saber

====1936====
* György Bródy, water polo
* Miklos Sárkány, water polo
* Endre Kabos (2), fencing, individual saber, team saber
* Ilona Elek, individual foil
* Károly Kárpáti, freestyle wrestling, lightweight

===After the Holocaust, 1948-1972===

After the Holocaust, less than 1% of the population of Hungary remained of Jewish heritage.
In individual sports events, Hungary won 48 gold medals between 1948 and 1972. Sportsmen and mainly sportswomen of Jewish extraction won 10 gold medals (20.8%). Hungarian Jewish women won 7 gold medals out of the 15 individual gold medals won by Hungarian women. In the 19 gold medal-winning teams for Hungary, 9 had Jewish members.

There are no known Hungarian Jewish gold medalist since 1976. Overall, Hungarian Jews won 15.4% of the 117 individual gold medals of Hungary, and had part in at least 16 out of the 42 gold medals in team events.

====1948====
* Ilona Elek, individual foil

====1952====
* Robert Antal, water polo
* Sándor Gellér, soccer
* Ágnes Keleti, gymnastics, floor exercises
* Éva Székely, swimming, 200-meter breaststroke

====1956====
* Ágnes Keleti (4)
** gymnastics, asymmetrical bars, floor exercises, balance beam, 
** team exercise with portable apparatus
* Aliz Kertész, gymnastics, team exercise with portable apparatus
* László Fábián, kayak pairs, 10,000-meters

====1960====
* Gyula Török, boxing, flyweight

====1964====
* Tamás Gábor, fencing, team épée
* Ildikó Rejtő (2), fencing, individual and team foil
* Árpád Orbán, soccer

====1968====
* Mihály Hesz, kayak, K1 1000m

====1972====
* Gyorgy Gedó, boxing, light flyweight

==Artists==
[[File:RobertCapabyGerdaTaro.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Robert Capa]]]]
[[File:Nickolas Muray.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Nickolas Muray]]]]
* [[Imre Ámos]], painter, born 1907 in [[Nagykálló]], killed during the Holocaust
* [[Robert Capa]], photographer
* [[Béla Czóbel]]
* [[Adolf Fényes]]<ref>[http://www.terminartors.com/artistprofile/Fenyes_Adolf "Fenyes, Adolf"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222005005/http://www.terminartors.com/artistprofile/Fenyes_Adolf |date=2011-12-22 }}. Terminartors. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* [[André François (cartoonist)|André François]], painter and graphic artist<ref>[http://www.pbase.com/csw62/andre_francois "Andre Francois"]. PBase. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref> (Jewish father)
* [[György Goldmann]], sculptor<ref>{{cite web |url=http://filmhiradok.nava.hu/watch.php?id=6665 |title=Goldmann György szobrász- és Sugár Andor festőművészek kiállítása |publisher=Filmhiradok Online |accessdate=May 9, 2013 |language=Hungarian |archive-date=April 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402084518/http://filmhiradok.nava.hu/watch.php?id=6665 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Lucien Hervé]], born Laszlo Elkan, photographer, known best for his architectural photographs, particularly those associated with Le Corbusier.
* [[Béla Iványi-Grünwald]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.terminartors.com/artistprofile/Ivanyi_Grunwald_Bela |title=Iványi Grünwald, Béla |publisher=Terminartors |accessdate=May 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501075330/http://www.terminartors.com/artistprofile/Ivanyi_Grunwald_Bela |archivedate=May 1, 2013 }}</ref>
* [[André Kertész]], born Andor Kertész, photographer, photo-essayist
* [[Ervin Marton]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/culture/article/a_hungarian_lens_on_photography |title=A Hungarian Lens on Photography |publisher=Jewish Journal |accessdate=June 19, 2015}}</ref>
* [[George Mayer-Marton]], born Gyorgy Mayer, artist
* [[László Moholy-Nagy]]
* [[Nickolas Muray]], photographer, born Miklós Mandl, Szeged HU, 1892-1965 New York City, and Olympic fencer.<ref>[[Nickolas Muray]]</ref> Known for his advances in commercial photography, most notably the first use of color film.
* [[Izsák Perlmutter]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.terminartors.com/artistprofile/Perlmutter_Izsak |title=Perlmutter, Izsák |publisher=Terminartors |accessdate=May 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816052142/http://www.terminartors.com/artistprofile/Perlmutter_Izsak |archivedate=August 16, 2013 }}</ref>
* [[Kermit (Wayne) Weinberger]], artist, designer, famous for his Las Vegas neon creations. Born to Jewish Hungarian parents.

==Business==
=== Businessmen===
[[File:George Soros 47th Munich Security Conference 2011 crop.jpg|thumb|160px|[[George Soros]]]]
* [[Jim Breyer]], venture capitalist
* [[Leo Castelli]], [[Trieste]]-born American art dealer of note.<ref>Diegidio, Tom (September 11, 1999). [http://www.salon.com/people/obit/1999/09/11/castelli/ "Leo Castelli"]. ''Salon''.</ref>
* [[Andrew Grove]], one of the founders and the CEO of [[Intel]]
* [[Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch]]
* [[Paul Reichmann]]'s parents were born in Hungary
* [[Tibor Rosenbaum]], rabbi and businessman
* [[George Soros]], Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist
* [[Sholam Weiss]], bankruptcy specialist

=== Industrialists and bankers ===
* [[Móric Fischer de Farkasházy]], founder the [[Herend Porcelain Manufactory]] in 1839
* [[Leó Lánczy]]
*Jenő Vida
*[[Ferenc Chorin]]
* [[Ferenc Chorin Jr]]
*Fülöp Weisz
*Gedeon Richter

==Chess players==
[[File:Judit The Look Polgar.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Judit Polgár]]]]
[[File:Susan Polgar Wikipedia.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Susan Polgar]]]]
* [[Rudolph Charousek]]
* [[Isidor Gunsberg]]
* [[Ignatz von Kolisch]]
* [[Andor Lilienthal]]
* [[Johann Löwenthal]]
* [[Judit Polgár]]
* [[Susan Polgár]]
* [[Zsófia Polgár]]
* [[Richard Réti]]
* [[Adolf Schwarz]]
* [[Endre Steiner]]
* [[Lajos Steiner]]
* [[László Szabó (chess player)|László Szabó]]
*[[Bobby Fischer]]  (both parents Hungarian Jews)

== Film and stage==

===Actors===
[[File:Hedy_Lamarr_Publicity_Photo_for_The_Heavenly_Body_1944.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Hedy Lamarr]]]]
[[File:Zsa Zsa Gabor - 1959.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Zsa Zsa Gabor]]]]
* [[Gábor Baraker]]
* [[Jerry Seinfeld]] (paternal side)
* [[Eva Bartok]] (father Jewish, born Szöke)
* [[Tony Curtis]]; his parents were born in Mátészalka.
* [[Franciska Gaal]]; born Jewish as Szidónia Silberspitz
* [[Miklós Gábor]]
* [[Zsa Zsa Gabor]], born in Budapest, Hungary
* [[Dezső Garas]]
* [[Gyula Gózon]]
* [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]]'s father was born in Hungary
* [[Gyula Kabos]]
* [[Harry Houdini]] born in Budapest, Hungary
* [[Hedy Lamarr]]
* [[Kálmán Latabár]] (mother Jewish)
* [[Peter Lorre]]
* [[László Márkus]]
* [[Imre Ráday]]
* [[Márton Rátkai]]
* [[Sándor Radó (actor)|Sándor Radó]]
* [[Sándor Rott]]
* [[Kálmán Rózsahegyi]]
* [[Eva Six]] (father Jewish)
* [[Géza Steinhardt]]
* [[Paul Newman]] (father Jewish)
* [[Zoltán Várkonyi]]

===Directors, screenwriters, and industry===
* [[George Cukor]], film director<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adherents.com/movies/FilmAFI100.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119105740/http://www.adherents.com/movies/FilmAFI100.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=November 19, 2005 |title=Religious Affiliation of Directors of AFI's Top 100 Movies |publisher=Adherents.com |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Michael Curtiz]], born Manó Kertész Kaminer, film director

* [[Judit Elek]], film director and screenwriter<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Plotkin |first=Janis |url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/filmmakers-independent-european |title=Filmmakers, Independent European |encyclopedia=Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* [[William Fox (producer)|William Fox]], producer and founder of Fox Film Studios; his name has been perpetuated in later film/broadcasting companies, born ''Fried Vilmos'' 

* [[Béla Gaál]] film director<ref name="YIVO">Hoberman, J. [http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Cinema "Cinema"]. ''The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe''. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* [[Viktor Gertler]], film editor and director<ref name="YIVO" />
* [[Harry Houdini]]
* [[Alexander Korda]], born Sándor László Kellner, brother of Vincent and Zoltan Korda, film producer and director<ref name="The Jewish Chronicle pp. 28">"Variety Club-Jewish Chronicle colour supplement: 350 years". ''The Jewish Chronicle''. December 15, 2006. pp. 28–29.</ref>
* [[Vincent Korda]], born Vincent Kellner, brother of Alexander and Zoltan Korda, art director<ref name="The Jewish Chronicle pp. 28" />
* [[Zoltán Korda]], born Zoltán Kellner, brother of Alexander and Vincent Korda, film screenwriter, director, and producer<ref name="The Jewish Chronicle pp. 28" />
* [[László Nemes]], film director (mother Jewish)
* [[Paul Newman]]'s father was born in Hungary, as was his Catholic mother
* [[Joe Pasternak]]
* [[Emeric Pressburger]]
* [[S. Z. Sakall]]
* [[István Szabó]], film director, screenwriter, and opera director<ref>[[Susan Rubin Suleiman|Suleiman, Susan Rubin]] (January 24, 2008). [http://www.kinokultura.com/specials/7/ssi-szabo.shtml "On Exile, Jewish Identity, and Filmmaking in Hungary: A Conversation with István Szabó"]. KinoKultura.</ref>
* [[Steve Sekely|István Székely]] film director<ref name="YIVO" />
* [[János Szász]], film director
* [[Alexandre Trauner]]
* [[Rachel Weisz]]'s father was born in Hungary
* [[Adolph Zukor]], founder of Paramount Pictures

==Historians==
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* [[Ignác Acsády]], historian<ref>[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]], art. ''Historians''</ref>{{full citation needed|date=May 2013}}
* [[Ignác Kúnos]], linguist
* [[John Lukacs]], historian (Roman Catholic, with a Jewish mother)<ref>{{cite news |last=Heer |first=Jeet |url=http://www.jeetheer.com/politics/lukacs.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507104241/http://www.jeetheer.com/politics/lukacs.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=May 7, 2006 |title=John Lukacs: The historian as anti-populist |work=Boston Globe |date=March 6, 2005}}</ref>
* [[Géza Vermes]], historian<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/spiritofthings/providential-accidents/3558720 |title=Providential Accidents |work=The Spirit of Things |publisher=ABC |date=August 29, 1999}}</ref>
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==Inventors and scientists==
* [[János Bodor]], inventor and innovator in the field of food technology
* [[László Bíró]], inventor of the ballpoint pen
* [[Marcel Breuer]] architect
* [[Dennis Gabor]], inventor of the holography
* [[David Gestetner]], inventor of the stencil duplicator<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "He was a devout Jew".</ref>{{full citation needed|date=May 2013}}
* [[Peter Carl Goldmark]], inventor of long-playing (LP) records
* András Gróf ([[Andrew Grove]]), pioneer of the semiconductor industry, CEO of Intel
* [[Rudolf E. Kálmán]] of [[Kalman filter]]
* [[Gedeon Richter]], pharmaceuticals; inventor and industrialist
* [[Elizabeth Rona]], nuclear chemist and contributor to the [[Manhattan Project]]
* [[David Schwarz (aviation inventor)|David Schwarz]], inventor of the [[Zeppelin]]<ref>''[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]]''</ref>{{full citation needed|date=May 2013}}
* [[Charles Weissmann]],<ref>[http://www.jinfo.org/Biomedical_Scientists.html "Jewish Biomedical & Life Scientists"]. Jinfo.org. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref> biochemist
* [[Eugene Wigner]] (Wigner Jenő), physicist and Nobel laureate (parents were Lutheran by religion)<ref>Meijer, Paul H. E. (ed.) (2000). ''Views of a Physicist: Selected papers of N.G. Van Kampen''. World Scientific. p. 233. {{ISBN|9789810243579}}.</ref>
* [[Gabor A. Somorjai]] (Hungarian-American) the "father" of modern surface-chemistry, leading world-expert on heterogeneous catalysis by metal surfaces

===Nobel Prize winners===
* [[Robert Bárány]] (1914) - Medicine
* György Hevesy ([[George de Hevesy]]) (1943) - Chemistry (born Roman Catholic)
* Jenő Wigner ([[Eugene Wigner]]) (1963) - Physics (Lutheran convert)
* Dénes Gábor ([[Dennis Gabor]]) (1971) - Physics (Lutheran convert)
* [[Milton Friedman]] (1976) - Economics
* János Polányi ([[John Charles Polanyi]]) (1986) - Chemistry (born Roman Catholic)<ref>[http://www.jinfo.org/Nobels_Chemistry.html "Jewish Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry"]. Jinfo.org. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* [[Elie Wiesel]] (1986-2016) - Peace
* János Harsányi ([[John Harsanyi]]) (1994) - Economics (born Roman Catholic)
* [[Imre Kertész]] (2002) - Literature
* Ferenc Herskó ([[Avram Hershko]]) (2004) - Chemistry

===Physicists===
* [[Dennis Gabor]]
* [[Theodore von Kármán]]
* [[John von Neumann]]
* [[Paul Neményi]]
* [[Leó Szilárd]]
* [[Edward Teller]]
* [[László Tisza]]
* [[Eugene Wigner]]

===Social scientists===
* [[Peter Thomas Bauer]], economist<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1393262/Lord-Bauer.html |title=Lord Bauer |work=The Telegraph |date=May 6, 2002}}</ref>
* [[Milton Friedman]], his parents emigrated from [[Beregszász]], then in Hungary.
* [[Frank Furedi]], sociologist<ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the_intolerant_crusade_against_circumcision/14117#.Us-q99JdWSo The intolerant crusade against circumcision], 7 October 2013</ref>
* [[John Harsanyi]], economist, [[game theory]]; Nobel laureate (born Roman Catholic, from a Jewish background)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html |title=Jewish Biographies: Nobel Prize Laureates |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Nicholas Kaldor]], British economist
* [[János Kornai]], economist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html |title=Jewish Economists |publisher=Jinfo.org |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner]] (1840–1899), educationist and orientalist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9735-leitner-gottlieb-william |title=Leitner, Gottlieb William |encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref><ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "registered with the Jewish community of Pest".</ref>{{full citation needed|date=May 2013}}
* [[Karl Mannheim]] sociologist,
* [[Adolf Neubauer]], Hebraist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11456-neubauer-adolf |title=Neubauer, Adolf |encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Karl Polanyi]], economist and philosopher
* [[George Katona]] psychologist, developed economic psychology

==Mathematicians==
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* [[Raoul Bott]]<ref name=maths>{{cite web |url=http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html |title=Jewish Mathematicians |publisher=Jinfo.org |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref> (ethnically Jewish through mother)
* [[Arthur Erdélyi]]
* [[Paul Erdős]]
* [[Lipót Fejér]]
* [[Michael Fekete]]
* [[László Fuchs]]
* [[Tibor Gallai]]
* [[Géza Grünwald]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.math.technion.ac.il/hat/people/obits/grunwald.html |title=The life and mathematics of Géza Grünwald |publisher=Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Alfréd Haar]]
* [[Paul Halmos]]
* [[László Kalmár]]
* [[John George Kemeny|John Kemeny]]
* [[Dénes Kőnig]]
* [[Gyula Kőnig]]
* [[Imre Lakatos]]
* Kornél Lőwy ([[Cornelius Lanczos]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Lanczos.html |title=Cornelius Lanczos |publisher=University of St. Andrews, Scotland |accessdate=May 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210055608/http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Lanczos.html |archive-date=February 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* [[Peter Lax]]
* [[John von Neumann]] (Roman Catholic convert)
* [[Rózsa Péter]]
* [[George Pólya]]
* [[Tibor Radó]]
* [[Alfréd Rényi]]
* [[Frigyes Riesz]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tibor |first=Frank |url=http://www.kfki.hu/%7Echeminfo/polanyi/9702/frank2.html |title=George Pólya and the Heuristic Tradition: Fascination with Genius in Central Europe |journal=Polanyiana |volume=6 |issue=2 |date=1997}}</ref>
* [[Marcel Riesz]]<ref name=maths/>
* [[Ludwig Schlesinger|Lajos Schlesinger]]
* [[Otto Szász]]
* [[Gábor Szegő]]
* [[Peter Szüsz]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Volkmann |first=Bodo |url=http://www.boku.ac.at/MATH/udt/vol03/no1/P-S-death08.pdf |title=On the death of Peter Szüsz |journal=Uniform Distribution Theory |volume=3 |issue=1 |year=2008 |pages=149–151}}</ref>
* [[Pál Turán]]
* [[Abraham Wald]]<ref name=maths/>
* [[Eugene Wigner]]
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==Music==
===Composers===

* [[Paul Abraham|Pál Ábrahám]]
* [[Károly Goldmark]]
* [[Gábor Darvas]]
* [[André Hajdu]], composer, educator
* Imre Kálmán ([[Emmerich Kálmán]])
* [[György Kurtág]] (half Jewish)
* [[Sándor Kuti]], composer
* [[György Ligeti]]
* [[Miklós Rózsa]], composer
* [[Rezső Seress]]
* [[Sándor Vándor]], composer, educator
* [[László Weiner]], composer
* [[Leó Weiner]], composer
* [[Paul Hermann (composer)|Pál Hermann]], composer, virtuoso cellist

===Conductors===

* [[Ádám Fischer]]
* [[Ivan Fischer]]
* [[Ferenc Fricsay]] (half Jewish through mother)
* [[György Justus]], composer, musicologist, choir master
* [[István Kertész (conductor)|István Kertész]]
* Jenő Ormándy ([[Eugene Ormandy]])
* [[Fritz Reiner]]
* [[Sir Georg Solti]]
* György Széll ([[George Szell]])

===Musicians===
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* [[Pál Budai]], pianist, composer
* [[Ádám Fischer]], conductor
* [[Peter Frankl]], pianist
* Endre Granat, violinist
* [[István Kertész (conductor)|István Kertész]], conductor
* [[Ervin Nyiregyházi]], pianist<ref>[[Kevin Bazzana|Bazzana, Kevin]] (2007). ''Lost Genius''. Canada: [[McClelland and Stewart]]. {{ISBN|978-0-7710-1100-9}}.</ref> (half Jewish through mother)
* [[György Pauk]], violinist
* [[Tommy Ramone]], drummer for [[The Ramones]] (born Erdélyi Tamás)
* [[János Sándor]], conductor
* [[Ervin Schiffer]], violist
* [[György Schiffer]], cellist 
* [[Georg Solti]], conductor
* [[Mark Freuder Knopfler]], guitar, Dire Straits,
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===Performers of music===

* [[Gitta Alpár]] - voice, soprano & actress
* [[Geza Anda]] - piano (half Jewish)
* [[Ilona Fehér]] - violin
* [[Annie Fischer]] - piano
* [[Joseph Joachim]] - violin
* [[Endre Granat]] - violin
* [[György Pauk]] - violin
* [[László Polgár (bass)|László Polgár]] - voice, bass
* [[Ede Reményi]] - violin
* [[Márk Rózsavölgyi]] - violin
* [[István Nádas]] - piano
* [[András Schiff]] - piano
* [[János Starker]] - violoncello
* [[Mihály Székely]] - voice, bass
* [[Joseph Szigeti]] - violin

==Psychoanalysts==
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* [[Michael Balint]], psychoanalyst<ref>[http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1298.html "Michael Balint"]. Whonamedit? Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* [[René Spitz]], psychoanalyst.
* [[Sándor Ferenczi]], psychoanalyst.
* [[Géza Róheim]]
* [[Léopold Szondi|Lipót Szondi]], psychiatrist
* [[Thomas Szasz]], psychiatrist
{{colend}}

==Religious figures==

:''See'' ''[[List of Jews in religion#Hungary|Hungarian-Jewish Religious Figures]]''

==Writers==
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* [[Béla Balázs]], poet & film critic<ref>Honti, Rita (2006).[http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/taite/vk/honti/principl.pdf "Principles of Pitch Organization in Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171148/http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/taite/vk/honti/principl.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }}. University of Helsinki. p. 100. "...German on his mother's side and Jewish on his father's..."</ref><ref>''[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]]'', art. Balazs, Bela</ref>{{full citation needed|date=May 2013}}
* [[Tibor Déry]]
* [[Renée Erdős]]
* [[György Faludy]]
* [[Milán Füst]]
* [[Ágnes Heller]].
* [[Ferenc Karinthy]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=László |first=Kiss |url=http://www.akademiai.com/content/7434465108481750/fulltext.pdf?page=1 |title=Utazás a feleségem körül – Karinthyné dr. Böhm Aranka (1893–1944) |journal=Orvosi Hetilap |publisher=Akadémiai Kiadó |volume=152 |issue=28 |date=July 2011 |pages=1137–1139 |language=Hungarian |doi=10.1556/oh.2011.ho2351 |pmid=21712176 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[Imre Kertész]], winner, Nobel Prize in Literature (2002)
* [[Arthur Koestler]], novelist & critic<ref>{{cite news |last=Mazower |first=Mark |date=January 2, 2000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/02/reviews/000102.02mazowet.html |title=A Tormented Life |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
* [[György Konrád]]
* [[Rudolf Lothar]], dramatist
* [[György Lukács]], Marxist literary critic and philosopher.
* [[Kati Marton]]
* [[George Mikes]]
* [[György Moldova]]
* [[Ferenc Molnár]]
* [[Péter Nádas]]
* {{interlanguage link|Endre Nagy|qid=Q1214122}}, creator of Hungarian cabaret
* [[István Örkény]]
* [[Károly Pap]]
* [[Erno Polgar]]
* [[Giorgio Pressburger]]
* [[Miklós Radnóti]], poet
* [[Jenő Rejtő]]
* [[György Spiró]]
* [[Gábor T. Szántó]]
* [[Antal Szerb]]
* [[Ephraim Kishon]], born as Ferenc Hoffmann, Hungarian-Israeli writer, satirist, and film director.
* [[Dezső Szomory]]
* [[Aleksandar Tisma]]
* [[Paul Tenczer]]
* [[József Vészi]]
* [[Elie Wiesel]], writer, Nobel Peace Prize (1986)<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1986/wiesel-bio.html "Elie Wiesel – Biography"]. Nobelprize.org. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* [[Béla Zsolt]] writer of Kilenc Koffer
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==Families ennobled between 1874 and 1918 (mainly industrialists)==
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* Biedermann – 1902 	
* Dirsztay – 1905 	
* Engel – 1879
* Groedl – 1900 	
* Gutmann – 1905
* Harkányi – 1904 	
* Hatvany – 1917
* Hatvany-Deutsch – 1895 	
* Hazai – 1912 	
* Herczel – 1912 	
* Herzog – 1904
* Kohner – 1904
* Korányi – 1912
* Kornfeld – 1908 	
* Königswarter – 1897 	
* Kuffner – 1904 	
* Lévay – 1897
* Madarassy-Beck – 1906 	
* Nauman – 1906 	
* Ohrenstein – 1913 	
* Orosdy – 1905
* Posner Karl	
* Schosberger – 1890 	
* Tornyai-Schosberger – 1905
* Ulmann – 1918 	
* Weiss – 1918 	
* Wodianer – 1874
* Wolfner – 1918<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mek.niif.hu/04000/04093/html/tematikus2.html |title=Magyar Zsidó Lexikon |publisher=Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
{{colend}}

==See also==
*[[List of Hungarians]]
*[[History of the Jews in Hungary]]

==End notes==
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==References==
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===General references===
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