# István

István (pronounced) is a Hungarian language equivalent of the name Stephen or Stefan. It may refer to:

## People with the given name
### Nobles, palatines and judges royal

* Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975–1038), last grand prince of the Hungarians and first king of Hungary
* Stephen Rozgonyi (died after 1440), ispán (Count) of Temes County
* Stephen III Báthory (died 1444), Palatine of Hungary
* Stephen V Báthory (1430–1493), Hungarian commander, judge royal and Voivode of Transylvania
* Stephen VIII Báthory (1477–1534), Voivode of Transylvania
* Stephen VII Báthory (1480–1530), Count of Temesvár and Palatine of Hungary
* Stephen Báthory (1533–1586), Voivode of Transylvania, Prince of Transylvania, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
* Stephen Báthory (1555–1605), judge royal of the Kingdom of Hungary
* Stephen Bocskai (1557–1606), Prince of Transylvania and Hungary
* Stephen Bethlen (1582–1648), Prince of Transylvania

### Politicians

* István Balogh (politician) (1894–1976), Hungarian Catholic priest and anti-communist politician
* István Bethlen (1874–1946), Prime Minister of Hungary
* István Bethlen (born 1946) (1946–2018), Hungarian economist and politician
* István Bibó (1911–1979), Hungarian lawyer, civil servant, politician and political theorist
* István Bittó (1822–1903), Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary
* István Dobi (1898–1968), Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary
* István Farkas de Boldogfa (1875–1921), Hungarian nobleman and jurist
* István Friedrich (1883–1951), Hungarian politician, footballer and factory owner, Prime Minister of Hungary for three months
* István Gorove (1819–1881), Hungarian politician and cabinet minister
* István Hiller (born 1964), Hungarian politician and cabinet minister
* István Horthy (1904–1942), Hungarian World War II anti-Nazi politician and fighter pilot
* István Nagy (politician, born 1954), Hungarian politician
* István Nagy (politician, born 1967), Hungarian agrarian engineer and politician
* István Pálfi (1966–2006), Hungarian politician
* István Pásztor (politician) (born 1956), Serbian politician
* István Széchenyi (1791–1860), Hungarian politician, political theorist and writer
* István Szent-Iványi (born 1958), Hungarian politician and diplomat
* István Tisza (1861–1918), Hungarian politician, Prime Minister, political scientist, international lawyer and macroeconomist
* István Varga (politician, born 1953), Hungarian lawyer and politician
* István Varga (politician, born 1956), Hungarian politician, economist and former Minister of National Development and Economy
* István Werbőczy (1458–1541), Hungarian legal theorist, statesman and theologian, author of the Hungarian Customary Law

### Musicians and artists

* István Árkossy (born 1943), Hungarian painter and graphic artist
* István Cserháti (1954–2005), Hungarian hard rock keyboardist
* István Csók (1865–1961), Hungarian painter
* István Ferenczy (1792–1856), Hungarian sculptor
* Istvan Kantor (born 1949), Canadian performance and video artist and industrial music and electropop singer
* István Kertész (conductor) (1929–1973), Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
* István Kiss (sculptor) (1927–1997), Hungarian sculptor
* István Láng (1933–2023), Hungarian composer and academic teacher
* István Nagy (painter) (1873-1937), Hungarian painter
* István Orosz (born 1951), Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director

### Authors

* István Fekete (1900–1970), Hungarian writer, author of several youth novels and animal stories
* István Küzmics (1723–1779), the most important Lutheran writer of the Slovenes in Hungary
* István Zsemlics (1840–1891), Slovene author and Catholic priest

### Academics

* István Fáry (1922–1984), Hungarian mathematician
* István Gyöngy (born 1951), Hungarian mathematician
* István Hatvani (1718–1786), Hungarian mathematician
* István Hont (1947–2013), Hungarian-born British historian of economics and political thought
* István Mészáros (philosopher) (1930–2017), Hungarian Marxist philosopher
* István Perczel (born 1951), Hungarian historian

### Chess players

* István Bilek (1932–2010), Hungarian chess grandmaster
* István Csom (1940–2021), Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter
* István Fazekas (1898–1967), Hungarian–British chess master

### Sportspeople

* István Avar (1905–1977), football player and manager who played for both Hungary and Romania
* István Bagyula (born 1969), Hungarian retired pole vaulter
* Istvan Bakx (born 1986), Dutch footballer
* István Balogh (footballer) (1912–1992), Hungarian footballer
* István Bárány (1907–1995), Hungarian swimmer
* István Beé (born 1972), Hungarian sprint canoer
* István Déván (1890–1977), Hungarian sprinter and cross-country skier
* István Donogán (1897–1966), Hungarian discus thrower
* István Énekes (1911–1940), Hungarian boxer
* István Ferenczi (born 1977), Hungarian footballer
* István Géczi (born 1944), Hungarian football goalkeeper
* István Gulyás (1931–2000), Hungarian tennis player
* István Havasi (1930–2003), Hungarian race walker
* István Herczeg (1887–1949), Hungarian gymnast
* István Kiss (decathlete) (1924–2011), Hungarian decathlete; see 1946 European Athletics Championships – Men's decathlon
* István Kiss (footballer) (born 1970), Hungarian footballer
* István Kiss (gymnast) (born 1948), Hungarian Olympic gymnast
* István Kiss (long-distance runner) (born 1940), Hungarian long-distance runner; see 1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres
* István Kiss (water polo) (born 1958), Hungarian former water polo player
* István Kovács (boxer) (born 1970), Hungarian retired world and Olympic champion boxer
* István Kozma (footballer) (born 1964), Hungarian former footballer
* István Kozma (wrestler) (1939–1970), Hungarian wrestler
* István Lang (born 1933), Hungarian cyclist
* István Lévai (born 1957), Hungarian retired boxer
* István Major (1949–2014), Hungarian high jumper
* István Molnár (water polo) (1913–1983), Hungarian water polo player
* István Mudin (1881–1918), Hungarian athlete who competed in the throwing events and the pentathlon
* István Nagy (athlete) (born 1959), Hungarian sprinter
* István Nagy (footballer, born 1939) (1939–1999), Hungarian footballer
* István Nagy (footballer, born 1986), Hungarian footballer
* István Nyers (1924–2005), Hungarian footballer
* István Pelle (1907–1986), Hungarian gymnast
* István Reszeli Soós (1962–2015), Hungarian football manager
* István Rózsavölgyi (1929–2012), Hungarian middle-distance runner
* István Séllyei (1950–2020), Hungarian wrestler
* István Serényi (1911–1996), Hungarian field handball player
* István Somodi (1885–1963), Hungarian high jumper
* István Stefanov (1964–2024), Hungarian footballer
* István Szabó (handballer) (born 1945), Hungarian handball player
* István Szabó (canoeist) (born 1950), Hungarian sprint canoer
* István Szilágyi (born 1950), Hungarian handball player
* István Sztáni (born 1937), Hungarian football manager and former player
* István Takács (born 2000), Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler
* István Tóth (canoeist), Hungarian sprint canoer in the 1980s
* István Tóth (footballer) (1891–1945), Hungarian amateur footballer, manager and coach
* István Tóth (wrestler) (born 1951), Hungarian wrestler
* István Varga (handballer) (1943–2014), Hungarian handball player
* István Varga (judoka) (born 1960), Hungarian judoka
* István Vaskuti (born 1955), Hungarian sprint canoer
* István Verpecz (born 1987), Hungarian footballer
* István Vincze (born 1967), Hungarian football manager and former football player
* István Vituska (born 1988), Hungarian footballer

### Other

* István Básthy (1896–1970), Hungarian art director
* István Dobó (c. 1502–1572), Hungarian soldier and baron
* István Kiss (architect) (1857–1902), Hungarian architect
* István Mihály (1892–1945), Hungarian screenwriter
* Stephen Pongracz (1584–1619), Hungarian Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
* István Vágó (born 1949), Hungarian television host and political activist