Lajos Markos
 Lajos Markos (1917–1993) was a Hungarian American artist trained at the Royal Academy of Budapest. He came to the United States following World War II and worked as a portraitist in New York City painting such celebrities as John Wayne and Robert Kennedy The Royal Family of King Hassan II and Pablo Casals. In his lifetime Lajos Markos completed over 2000 portraits.[citation needed] In the 1960s he moved to Houston Texas where he expanded his interest to art of the American west.