# List of people from Budapest

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

* Mihail G. Boiagi - grammarian and professor
* Raoul Bott - mathematician
* Gábor Döbrentei - philologist and antiquary
* Paul Erdős - mathematician
* Endre Fülei-Szántó - linguist
* John Harsanyi - economist, philosopher, and laureate of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics
* Theodor Herzl - journalist, political activist, and father of modern political Zionism
* Károly Kerényi - scholar
* János Kornai - economist
* Peter Lax - mathematician
* László Lovász - mathematician
* Michael Polanyi
* George Pólya - mathematician
* Sándor Scheiber - rabbi and scholar
* Thomas Sebeok - semiotician
* Thomas Szász - psychiatrist and activist
* Endre Szemerédi - mathematician
* Edit Tasnádi - literary translator and academic

## Artists

* Andrea Bartha - set designer, costume designer, and visual artist
* Robert Capa - photographer
* Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka - painter
* Gábor Csupó - animator
* Béni Ferenczy - sculptor and graphic artist
* Árpád Feszty - painter
* André François - cartoonist
* Líviusz Gyulai - graphic designer
* Henrik Heintz - painter
* Miklós Izsó - sculptor
* Jenő Jendrassik - painter
* Ferenc Joachim - painter
* Ede Kallós - sculptor
* Lajos Kassák
* André Kertész - photographer
* Zsigmond Kisfaludi Stróbl - sculptor and visual artist
* Miklós Ligeti - sculptor and visual artist
* Imre Makovecz - architect
* János Manninger - photographer
* Ferenc Medgyessy - sculptor
* Ladislav Mednyánszky - painter and philosopher
* László Moholy-Nagy - painter and photographer
* Gustav Morelli - engraver and illustrator
* István Orosz - painter, printmaker, graphic designer, and animated film director
* George Pal - animator, director, and producer
* János Pásztor - sculptor
* Ferenc Rófusz - animator
* József Róna - sculptor and visual artist
* Albert Schickedanz - architect and painter
* Gyorgy Bp. Szabo - graphic designer and musician
* Dezső Váli - painter
* Victor Vasarely - visual artist
* András Vikár - architect and educator
* Tamás Waliczky - visual artist and animator
* Ze'ev - caricaturist and illustrator

## Athletes

* Róbert Antal - water polo
* Barbara Bagócsi - handball
* Péter Bakonyi (born 1933) - fencing
* Péter Bakonyi (born 1938) - fencing
* Rudolf Bauer - discus throwing
* Jim Benedek - footballer and manager
* Tibor Benedek - water polo player and coach
* Gyula Bíró - football
* József Braun - footballer and manager
* Ákos Buzsáky - football
* Ibolya Csák - high jumper and gymnast
* Zoltán Czibor - football
* Tamás Darnyi - swimmer
* Krisztina Egerszegi - swimmer
* Ilona Elek - fencing
* Zsolt Erdei - boxing
* Jenő Fuchs - fencing
* Tamás Gábor - fencing
* János Garay - fencing
* Oszkár Gerde - fencing
* Aladár Gerevich - fencing
* Sándor Gombos - fencing
* Gyula Grosics - footballer and manager
* Béla Guttmann - footballer and manager
* Gábor Gyepes - football
* Alfréd Hajós - swimmer and footballer
* Nándor Hidegkuti - footballer and manager
* Gábor Horváth - kayaker and spring canoeist
* Gary Kallos - wrestling
* Ágnes Keleti - gymnast and coach
* Vilmos Kertész - football
* Ralph Klein - basketball player and coach
* Zsuzsa Körmöczy - tennis
* István Kovács - boxing
* Pál Kovács - fencing
* Zoltán Kovács - ice hockey coach and administrator
* Lily Kronberger - figure skating
* Imi Lichtenfeld - martial arts
* Zoltán Magyar - gymnastics
* Gyula Mándi - football
* Opika von Méray Horváth - figure skating
* Zoltan Nagy - professional wrestler
* Henrik Nádler - football
* László Papp - boxing
* Attila Petschauer - fencing
* Ferenc Puskás - football
* Béla Rajki-Reich - swimming and water polo coach
* László Schnell - ice hockey official
* Béla Sebestyén - football
* Gusztáv Sebes - football
* Zoltán Stieber - football
* László Szollás - figure skating
* Ildikó Rejtő - fencing
* Lajos Werkner - fencing
* George Worth - fencing

## Authors

* Endre Ady - poet
* János Arany - poet
* Mihály Babits - poet, writer, and translator
* Dániel Berzsenyi - poet
* Péter Esterházy
* György Faludy - poet
* Ferenc Fejtő - journalist and political scientist
* Tamás Harle - journalist
* Attila József - poet
* József Kármán
* József Katona
* Ferenc Kazinczy
* Zsigmond Kemény
* András Kenessei - art historian, writer, and journalist
* Imre Kertész - author and laureate of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Ephraim Kishon - author and filmmaker
* Arthur Koestler - writer and journalist
* György Konrád - novelist
* Domokos Kosáry - writer and historian
* Imre Madách - writer and poet
* Sándor Márai
* Zsigmond Móricz
* András Petőcz - writer and poet
* Sándor Petőfi - poet and liberal revolutionary
* Magda Szabó - novelist
* László Teleki - writer and statesman
* Mihály Vörösmarty - poet and dramatist
* Zsuzsanna Budapest - writer, activist, playwright, and songwriter

## Entertainment and Film

* András Arató - model and internet meme
* Barbara Baska - graphic designer and cinematographer
* 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
* Béla Dekany - Hungarian-born British violinist
* 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

## Politicians

* Gyula Andrássy - statesman
* Gábor Baross - statesman
* Étienne Davignon - diplomat, civil servant, vice-president of the European Commission
* Árpád Göncz - president of Hungary from 1990 to 2000
* Nicholas Greiner
* Gábor Harangozó
* Miklós Horthy - admiral and statesman
* Mihály Károlyi - president of Hungary from 1918 to 1919
* Lajos Kossuth
* László Kovács
* Béla Kun - communist revolutionary
* Tom Lantos
* Imre Nagy - leader of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
* István Széchenyi - noble and statesman
* István Tisza
* Miklós Wesselényi

## 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
* 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
* Charles Simonyi - software architect
* 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

* Princess Viktória de Bourbon de Parme - lawyer, businesswoman, and royal
* Gyula Breyer - chess player
* Václav Havel - honorary citizen
* Kati Kovács - honorary citizen
* Andor Lilienthal - chess player
* Johann Löwenthal - chess player
* Géza Maróczy - chess player
* József Mindszenty - cardinal
* Susan Polgar - chess grandmaster
* Judit Polgár - chess grandmaster
* Zsófia Polgár - chess player, teacher, and artist
* Lajos Portisch - chess player
* Elvis Presley - honorary citizen
* Mordechai Efraim Fischel Sofer-Zussman - chief rabbi of Budapest
* George Soros - investor and philanthropist
* László Szabó - chess player
* Edward Teller - honorary citizen
* Lech Walesa - honorary citizen
* Raoul Wallenberg - honorary citizen