List of Famous people born in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary

Zsigmond Fülöp was a Hungarian actor. He was best known for acting in Édes Anna, a film that was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. He was married to Ági Margitai.

Zsuzsanna Lorántffy, anglicized as Susanna Lorantffy was a Princess consort of Transylvania by marriage to György Rákóczi I, Prince of Transylvania. A passionate Calvinist, she assisted her husband in his successful struggle to introduce Protestant reforms in the Transylvanian church.

Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a collaboration partnership known as the Archers, and produced a series of films, including 49th Parallel (1941), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).

Paul Dienes was a Hungarian mathematician and poet.

Gábor Egressy was a Hungarian actor and brother of Béni Egressy. He was responsible for bringing the dramas of William Shakespeare to the Hungarian stage in the Hungarian Language.

Piroska Molnár is a Hungarian actress. She has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1967.

Béni Egressy was a Hungarian composer, librettist, translator and actor. He created a number of popular melodic compositions, including the one to Mihály Vörösmarty's patriotic poem Szózat. He also authored the librettos of the operas Hunyadi László and Bánk bán by Ferenc Erkel.

Tamás Decsi is a Hungarian sabre fencer. He won two medals in the same weapon at the 2009 World Fencing Championships in Antalya, Turkey.