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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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Henrik Nádler
1901 - 1944
Paul Kallós
1902 - 1988
Cornell Smelser
1902 - 1993
Pinchas Freudiger
1900 - 1976
Lajos Fischer
1902 - 1978
Ladislaus Varady
1906 - 1989
Jenő Ligeti
1905 - 1967
Etienne Isoz
1905 - 1986
László Muskát
1903 - 1966
Tibor Revesz-Long
1902 - 1976
István Boros
1908 - 1994
Miklós Barcza
1908 - 1948
Lajos László Papp
1906 - 1986
Charles Rohonyi
1906 - 1998
Josef Olah
1909 - 1974
Gyula Dudás
1902 - 1956
Ladislaus Laszlo Marton
1901 - 1979
Steffie Lerch
1905 - 1996
Hubert Matuschek
1902 - 1968
Ferenc Gerő
1900 - 1974
György Skvarek
1903 - 1952
Antal Gáborfi
Born 1904
Gusztáv Rózsahegyi
1901 - 1975
Béla Rebró
1901 - 1970
Sándor Szobolevszky
1907 - 1946
János Nagy
1903 - 1966
József Györe
1902 - 1985
Arpad De Riso
1909 - 1983
Erzsébet Ruda
1904 - 1991
Béla Szendey
1902 - 1966
Vilmos Dán
1903 - 1959
István Sugár (athlete)
1904 - 1991
János Víg
1907 - 1949
Tivadar Filótás
1903 - 1945
Emeric Glasz
1902 - 1944
Margit Sipos
Born 1908
Stephen Auer
1900 - 1954
Pál Domonkos
1908 - 1964
Joseph R. Koberling Jr.
1900 - 1990
László Bartók
1904 - 1944
Lajos Juhász
1906 - 1981
Gyula Wilhelm
1901 - 1979
István Beneda
Born 1904
Zoltán Zilahi
1903 - 1971
János Paizs
1907 - 1978
Tibor Tary
1909 - 1945
Emílio Hinko
1901 - 2002
Rezső Szulik
Born 1906
Gustav Wikkenhauser
1901 - 1974
Pablo Komlós
1907 - 1978
Raul Uhl
1907 - 2002
László Várkonyi
Born 1908
Tibor Székely
1908 - 1945
János Neu
1908 - 1993
Dezső von Zirthy
Born 1902
Leo Geiger
1900 - 1958
Tibor Püspöki
1900 - 1978
Mikuláš Kucsera
1902 - 1987
Alice Burchard-Bélaváry
Born 1901
Jan Hatvani
1903 - 1969
Albert Zerkowitz
1905 - 1964
Carl Prennel
1901 - 1968
Rudolf Plemich
1901 - 1969
Victor Cornelius Medvei
1905 - 2000
Karl Podach
1901 - 1983