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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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Tamás Faragó
Born 1952
Ervin Zádor
1935 - 2012
Sándor Tarics
1913 - 2016
Tibor Benedek
1972 - 2020
György Kárpáti
1935 - 2020
Olivér Halassy
1909 - 1946
Kálmán Markovits
1931 - 2009
Norbert Hosnyánszky
Born 1984
Gergely Kiss
Born 1977
Zoltán Szécsi
Born 1977
László Jeney
1923 - 2006
Gábor Csapó
Born 1950
Dezső Lemhényi
1917 - 2003
Tamás Kásás
Born 1976
Alex Giorgetti
Born 1987
Dénes Varga
Born 1987
Mihály Mayer
1933 - 2000
Márton Homonnai
1906 - 1969
Dániel Varga
Born 1983
István Szívós (water polo, born 1948)
1948 - 2019
Miklós Sárkány
1908 - 1998
Viktor Nagy
Born 1984
Jenő Brandi
1913 - 1980
Ádám Steinmetz
Born 1980
Márton Szívós
Born 1981
István Szívós (water polo, born 1920)
1920 - 1992
Zoltán Kósz
Born 1967
György Gerendás
Born 1954
Attila Vári
Born 1976
Barnabás Steinmetz
Born 1975
György Bródy
1908 - 1967
János Németh
1906 - 1988
György Horkai
Born 1954
Zoltán Dömötör
1935 - 2019
Tamás Märcz
Born 1974
Miklós Holop
1925 - 2017
Bulcsú Székely
Born 1976
László Felkai
1941 - 2014
Mihály Bozsi
1911 - 1984
Gábor Kis
Born 1982
Márton Vámos
Born 1992
Ferenc Konrád
1945 - 2015
Sándor Ivády
1903 - 1998
Balázs Hárai
Born 1987
Alajos Keserű
1905 - 1965
Barbara Bujka
Born 1986
Imre Zachár
1890 - 1954
János Konrád
1941 - 2014
Zsolt Varga (water polo, born 1972)
Born 1972
Attila Decker
Born 1987
Péter Rusorán
1940 - 2012
Oszkár Csuvik
1925 - 2008
György Vizvári
1928 - 2004
Attila Sudár
Born 1954
Róbert Antal
1921 - 1995
Dezső Fábián
1918 - 1973
György Kenéz
Born 1956
Miklós Martin
1931 - 2019
Ferenc Keserű
1903 - 1968
Károly Szittya
1918 - 1983
László Sárosi (water polo)
Born 1946
Orsolya Takács
Born 1985
István Udvardi
1960 - 2012
János Steinmetz
1947 - 2007
Rita Keszthelyi
Born 1991
Orsolya Kasó
Born 1988
Ádám Decker
Born 1984
Dénes Kemény
Born 1954
Anna Illés
Born 1994
István Görgényi
Born 1946
Dóra Kisteleki
Born 1983
Balázs Szirányi Somogyi
Born 1983
András Katona
Born 1938
Flóra Bolonyai
Born 1991
Ildikó Tóth (water polo)
Born 1987
Krisztina Garda
Born 1994
Mercédesz Stieber
Born 1974
Katalin Menczinger
Born 1989
Hanna Kisteleki
Born 1991
Miklós Gór-Nagy
Born 1983
Anikó Pelle
Born 1978
Károly Hauszler
Born 1952
Dóra Csabai
Born 1989
László Kuncz
1957 - 2020
Lajos Homonnai
1904 - 1924
István Kiss (water polo)
Born 1958
Bence Bátori
Born 1991
Tibor Fazekas
1892 - 1982
László Beleznai
1891 - 1953
Anett Györe
Born 1981
Sándor Konrád
Born 1940
Tamás Mezei
Born 1990
Sándor Ádám
Born 1892
Jenő Hégner
1894 - 1915
Szilveszter Fekete
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Zsuzsanna Tiba
Born 1976