List of Famous people born in Hungary

Péter Gothár

First Name Péter
Last Name Gothár
Born on August 28, 1947 (age 79)

Péter Gothár is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 23 films since 1974. His film The Outpost was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

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László Botka

Botka László István
First Name László
Last Name Botka
Born on February 21, 1973 (age 53)

László Botka is a Hungarian politician. Botka was a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party between 1991 and 2019, and the current mayor of Szeged.

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Robert Lantos

First Name Robert
Last Name Lantos
Born on April 3, 1949 (age 77)
Born in Hungary

Robert Lantos, CM is a Canadian film producer.

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Gyula O. H. Katona

First Name Gyula
Born on March 16, 1941 (age 85)
Born in Hungary

Gyula O. H. Katona is a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in combinatorial set theory, and especially for the Kruskal–Katona theorem and his beautiful and elegant proof of the Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem in which he discovered a new method, now called Katona's cycle method. Since then, this method has become a powerful tool in proving many interesting results in extremal set theory. He is affiliated with the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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György Tarr

First Name György
Last Name Tarr
Born on November 5, 1959 (age 67)
Born in Hungary
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Györgyi Szakács

First Name Györgyi
Born on March 1, 1951 (age 75)
Born in Hungary

Györgyi Szakács is a Hungarian costume designer.

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Tamás Mihály

First Name Tamás
Last Name Mihály
Born on September 24, 1947
Died on November 21, 2020 (aged 73)
Born in Hungary
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János Székely

Freund János
First Name János
Last Name Székely
Born on July 7, 1901
Died on December 16, 1958 (aged 57)
Born in Hungary

János Székely was a Hungarian writer and screenwriter. His best-known work is the 1949 autobiographical novel Kísértés (Temptation).

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László Darvas

First Name László
Last Name Darvas
Born on December 6, 1941 (age 84)
Born in Hungary
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Eva Bayer-Fluckiger

First Name Eva
Last Name Bayer-Fluckiger
Born on June 25, 1951 (age 75)
Born in Hungary

Eva Bayer-Fluckiger is a Hungarian and Swiss mathematician. She is an Emmy Noether Professor Emeritus at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She has worked on several topics in topology, algebra and number theory, e.g. on the theory of knots, on lattices, on quadratic forms and on Galois cohomology. Along with Raman Parimala, she proved Serre's conjecture II regarding the Galois cohomology of a simply-connected semisimple algebraic group when such a group is of classical type.

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