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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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Mihály Csutorás
1912 - 1956
Bandy Zolyomi
1913 - 1992
László Cseri
1912 - 1998
Alexander Erba-Odescalchi
1914 - 2008
József Dobronyi
1917 - 1993
Gyula Kormos
1911 - 1980
Jelica Stanojević
Born 1913
Nicholas F. Derera
1919 - 2011
Gábor Alapy
Born 1912
Adolf Vécsey
1915 - 1979
João Etzel Filho
Born 1916
Ervin Kereszthy
1910 - 1968
László Karácson
1918 - 2004
László Szalay (skier)
1914 - 2008
Karl Targownik
1915 - 1996
Géza Szénási
1919 - 1979
Rezső von Bartha
1912 - 2001
Sándor von Korompay
1912 - 1986
Károly Rödönyi
1911 - 1995
Imre Csík
1912 - 1964
Imre Kapossy
1915 - 2005
László Hódi (diver)
1912 - 1990
Ede Virágh-Ebner
1912 - 1951
János Zorgo
Born 1919
Béla Kállói
1913 - 1970
Károly Bazini
1910 - 1973
Egon Bazini
1911 - 1998
Eduard de Atzel
Born 1917
Ágnes Bíró
1917 - 2008
Lajos Börzsönyi
1916 - 1984
László Hidvégi
Born 1916
Ede Szomjas
1914 - 1987
István Simon (athlete)
1912 - 1995
Béla Berend
1911 - 1984
Péter Fülöp (diplomat)
1914 - 2004
Georg Csato
1910 - 1983
Margit Wolf
1910 - 1998
Louis Halmy
1911 - 2005
Jules Fejer
1914 - 2002
Hansi Staël von Holstein
1913 - 1961