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BUDAPEST
Most Famous People Born in Budapest, Hungary
- Notable people
- 4,770
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- Median birth year
- 1941
- Most distinctive
- Polo 24.6×
A city whose 20th century produced more mathematicians per capita than almost any other. Budapest's distinctive professions are an unusually athletic and intellectual mix — water polo, fencing, canoeing, chess, and conducting, with swimmers and figure skaters close behind — and the dataset's brightest names are largely Jewish émigrés born between 1880 and 1920 who left and changed the world from somewhere else. The interwar Magyar bench is one of the most concentrated cultural booms anywhere in the dataset.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Budapest Is Known For
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Football is Budapest's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (602).
Budapest over-indexes on polo — 24.6× the global rate.
Budapest under-produces politician — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Budapest's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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István Tisza
1861 - 1918
Philip de László
1869 - 1937
Isidor Philipp
1863 - 1958
Snitz Edwards
1868 - 1937
Arthur Holitscher
1869 - 1941
Frigyes Szapáry
1869 - 1935
Rudolf Lothar
1865 - 1943
Marcell Komor
1868 - 1944
Franz Tangl
1866 - 1917
Gabriele Possanner
1860 - 1940
Dezső Szomory
1869 - 1944
Anton Lampa
1868 - 1938
Max Zilzer
1868 - 1943
Artúr Lajos Halmi
1866 - 1939
Emil Kemény
1860 - 1925
Serena Lederer
1867 - 1943
Anton Zilzer
1860 - 1921
Jakob Pál
1863 - 1936
Jenő Jendrassik
1860 - 1919
Gyula Iványi
1864 - 1920
Albert Olszewski Von Herbulis
1860 - 1928
Adolf Kohner
1866 - 1937
Julie Naschauer
1868 - 1907
Therese Rothauser
1865 - 1943
Armin Friedmann
1863 - 1939
Armin Ehrenzweig
1864 - 1935
Theodor von Sosnosky
1866 - 1943
Hélène Basch
1862 - 1944
Melanie Andrée
1869 - 1907
Clara Lichtenstein
1860 - 1946
Franz Perko
1868 - 1919
Berthold Fuchs
1867 - 1942
Reinhard Erich von Gemmingen
1866 - 1932