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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.
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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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Harry Houdini
1874 - 1926
Ferenc Molnár
1878 - 1952
Pál Teleki
1879 - 1941
Mihály Károlyi
1875 - 1955
Igor Grabar
1871 - 1960
Alfréd Hajós
1878 - 1955
Marcel Grossmann
1878 - 1936
Eugen Varga
1879 - 1964
Stephen Samuel Wise
1874 - 1949
Rosika Schwimmer
1877 - 1948
Cécile Tormay
1876 - 1937
Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer
1878 - 1962
Oscar Beregi (actor, born 1876)
1876 - 1965
Andreas Latzko
1876 - 1943
Ödön Márffy
1878 - 1959
Gyula Kellner
1871 - 1940
Béla Kádár
1877 - 1956
Rudolf Bauer (athlete)
1879 - 1932
Hugo Scheiber
1873 - 1950
Károly Kernstok
1873 - 1940
Béla Lajta
1873 - 1920
Jenő Heltai
1871 - 1957
Richárd Weisz
1879 - 1945
Petar Stojanović (composer)
1877 - 1957
Rezső Bálint (physician)
1874 - 1929
Theodore Hardeen
1876 - 1945
Aurél Stromfeld
1878 - 1927
Albert Siklós
1878 - 1942
Horace Finaly
1871 - 1945
Jean Schwartz
1878 - 1956
János Plesch
1878 - 1957
Alice Guszalewicz
1879 - 1940
Árpád Basch
1873 - 1944
Bodog F. Beck
1871 - 1942
István Medgyaszay
1877 - 1959
Ervin Mészáros
1877 - 1940
Pál Heim
1875 - 1929
László Berti
1875 - 1952
Béla Kiss
1877 - 1915
István Hollós
1872 - 1957
Bernard Fantus
1874 - 1940
Rudolf Balogh
1879 - 1944
Julius Glattfelder
1874 - 1943
Mariska Vízváry
1879 - 1954
Antal Dovcsák
1879 - 1962
Rustem Vambery
1872 - 1948
Desiderius Wein
1873 - 1944
Eduard Rothauser
1876 - 1956
Johannes Kronfuß
1872 - 1944
Rezső Crettier
1878 - 1945
Emil Torday
1875 - 1931
Antal Berkes
1874 - 1938
Gyula Kakas
1878 - 1928
Ernő Garami
1876 - 1935
Albert H. Woods
1870 - 1951
Zoltán Szilády
1878 - 1947
Ferenc Harrer
1874 - 1969
Valéria Dénes
1877 - 1915
Eugen Pólya
1876 - 1944
Peter Rona
1871 - 1945
Pál Koppán
Born 1878
Jakab Kauser
1877 - 1925
Hugó Böckh
1874 - 1931
Paul George Konody
1872 - 1933
Ákos Pauler
1876 - 1933
Zsigmond Barász
1878 - 1935
Gusztáv Szerémi
1877 - 1952
Ferenc Gillemot
1875 - 1916
Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
1879 - 1958
Eugen Robert
1877 - 1944
Sándor Wekerle Jr.
1878 - 1963
Béla Scitovszky
1878 - 1959
Wilhelm Willinger (Fotograf)
1879 - 1943
Arnold Székely
1874 - 1958
Jeno Béla Kümmerle
1876 - 1931
Zoárd Geőcze
1873 - 1916
Károly Lovik
1874 - 1915
Samuel Morgenstern
1875 - 1943
Lajos Kolozsváry
1871 - 1937
Harold Steinacker
1875 - 1965
Jenő Sipőcz
1878 - 1937
Mathias Heinicke
1873 - 1956
Eugénia Miskolczy Meller
1872 - 1945
Otto Mayer (Fotograf)
1875 - 1903
Ferenc Kirchknopf
1878 - 1949
Alice Kauser
1871 - 1945
Emil Gabrovitz
1875 - 1947
Werner Hantelmann
1871 - 1939
Benno Singer
1875 - 1934
Géza Malasits
1874 - 1948
Adolf Glinger
1873 - 1944
Aladár Hornyánszky
1873 - 1939
Béla von Darányi
Born 1874
Rudolf Tropsch
Born 1870
Elvira Schweida
Born 1870
Sándor Kugler
1879 - 1964
Anatol von Roessel
1877 - 1967
Roland Steinacker
1870 - 1962
Sanmicheli Wolkenstein
1872 - 1910
Philipp Fritz
Born 1878