List of Famous people born in Debrecen, Hungary

Balázs Dzsudzsák is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for Nemzeti Bajnokság II club Debreceni VSC and the Hungary national team.

Judah Samet is a businessman, speaker, and Holocaust survivor. At the age of six, he and his family were taken from Debrecen, Hungary, to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they spent eleven months. After the Second World War the family immigrated to Israel, where he subsequently served in the Israel Defense Forces and worked as a teacher. He later moved to Canada and then to the United States. In 2018, he was a witness to and survivor of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. He is a jeweler and speaker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

László Görög is a Hungarian actor as well as voice actor mostly known for his roles in Samba, Argo and Jumurdzsák gyürüje (Yoomurjak's Ring. He was born in Debrecen.

Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the "research programme" in his methodology of scientific research programmes.

Tamás Vásáry is a Hungarian concert pianist and conductor.

Elemér Hankiss was a Hungarian sociologist. His first wife was MEP Ágnes Hankiss.

József Vágó was a Hungarian football defender who played for Hungary in the 1934 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Debreceni VSC.

Miklós Kocsár was a Hungarian composer.

Tibor Szele Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics and abstract algebra. After graduating at the Debrecen University, he became a researcher at the Szeged University in 1946, then he went back at the Debrecen University in 1948 where he became full professor in 1952. He worked especially in the theory of Abelian groups and ring theory. He generalized Hajós's theorem. He founded the Hungarian school of algebra. Tibor Szele received the Kossuth Prize in 1952.