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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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John von Neumann
1903 - 1957
Paul Erdős
1913 - 1996
Eugene Wigner
1902 - 1995
George Pólya
1887 - 1985
Rudolf E. Kálmán
1930 - 2016
Peter Lax
Born 1926
László Lovász
Born 1948
Paul Halmos
1916 - 2006
John G. Kemeny
1926 - 1992
Raoul Bott
1923 - 2005
Marcel Grossmann
1878 - 1936
Alfréd Rényi
1921 - 1970
Endre Szemerédi
Born 1940
Béla Bollobás
Born 1943
Pál Turán
1910 - 1976
Dénes Kőnig
1884 - 1944
Géza Ottlik
1912 - 1990
Rózsa Péter
1905 - 1977
Éva Tardos
Born 1957
Alfréd Haar
1885 - 1933
László Babai
Born 1950
Vera T. Sós
Born 1930
János Kollár
Born 1956
George Szekeres
1911 - 2005
Tibor Radó
1895 - 1965
András Hajnal
1931 - 2016
Zoltán Pál Dienes
1916 - 2014
Ákos Császár
1924 - 2017
Tibor Gallai
1912 - 1992
Gabriel Andrew Dirac
1925 - 1984
Miklós Ajtai
Born 1946
György Hajós
1912 - 1972
Miklós Laczkovich
Born 1948
Eva Bayer-Fluckiger
Born 1951
Arthur Erdélyi
1908 - 1977
János Aczél (mathematician)
1924 - 2020
András Sárközy
Born 1941
Zoltán Szabó (mathematician)
Born 1965
László Rédei
1900 - 1980
János Pintz
Born 1950
Gyula O. H. Katona
Born 1941
Gábor Tardos
Born 1964
László Mérő
Born 1949
Aurel Wintner
1903 - 1958
Imre Simon
1943 - 2009
József Beck
Born 1952
András Frank
Born 1949
Marianna Csörnyei
Born 1975
George Grätzer
Born 1936
Imre Z. Ruzsa
Born 1953
Béla Kerékjártó
1898 - 1946
László Fuchs
Born 1924
Andrew Vázsonyi
1916 - 2003
Steven Gaal
1924 - 2016
Zoltán Füredi
Born 1954
Gábor J. Székely
Born 1947
Gábor Halász
Born 1941
András Vasy
Born 1969
Esther Szekeres
1910 - 2005
Michael Makkai
Born 1939
Lajos Pósa (mathematician)
Born 1947
István Juhász (mathematician)
Born 1943
Miklós Simonovits
Born 1943
Gábor Domokos
Born 1961
Peter Orlik
Born 1938
Tamás Szőnyi
Born 1957
János Komlós (mathematician)
Born 1942
Steven Vajda
1901 - 1995
Lajos Pukánszky
1928 - 1996
András Kornai
Born 1957
Zsolt Baranyai
1948 - 1978
Katalin Marton
1941 - 2019
Péter Komjáth
Born 1953
László Pyber
Born 1960
Árpád Szabó
1913 - 2001
László Lempert
Born 1952
László Erdős
Born 1966
György Alexits
1899 - 1978
Károly Bezdek
Born 1955
Balázs Szegedy
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János Rácz
1919 - 2005
János Surányi
1918 - 2006
John Zaborszky
1914 - 2008
Géza Grünwald
1910 - 1943
István Fenyő (mathematician)
1917 - 1987
Ákos Seress
1958 - 2013
John Harnad
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Zoárd Geőcze
1873 - 1916
György Targonski
1928 - 1998
György Elekes
1949 - 2008
János Körner
Born 1946
András Sebő
Born 1954
Jenő Szép
1920 - 2004
Gyula Y. Katona
Born 1965
Tamás Szamuely
Born 1971
István Gyöngy
Born 1951
Andreas Solymosi
Born 1947
Katalin Vesztergombi
Born 1948
Magdolna Zimányi
1934 - 2016
Géza Schay (Mathematiker)
Born 1934
E. Tamás Schmidt
Born 1936