List of Famous people born in Budapest, Hungary

Ferenc Batthyány de Németújvár was a Hungarian magnate and general, member of the prestigious Batthyány family. He served as Ban of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia from 1522 to 1526 and, as a partisan of King Ferdinand I, from 1527 to 1531.

Maximilian Steiner was an Austrian actor and theater director and manager. He is known particularly for his leadership of Vienna's Theater an der Wien from 1869 to 1880, a period during which the theater reduced the importance of folk plays and was prominent in developing and promoting the fashion of a Viennese style of operetta.

János Wass, or "Prince" John, was an illegitimate son of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, the ill-fated king, who died young and in mysterious circumstances at the Battle of Mohács by a liaison with his mother, Anne of Foix-Candale's former lady's maid, Angelitha Wass.

József baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény was a Hungarian writer and statesman, the son of Ignác baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény and Anna von Lilien, who stemmed from an Erbsälzer family of Werl in Germany. Eötvös name is sometimes anglicised as Joseph von Eotvos.