List of Famous people born in Hungary

Pál Dárdai is a Hungarian retired footballer who played mainly as a defensive midfielder, and current coach of German club Hertha BSC.

Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess player. She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. Since September 2015, she has been inactive as a tournament player. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She was the youngest ever player to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, ranking No. 55 in the January 1989 rating list, at the age of 12. She is the only woman to be a serious candidate for the World Chess Championship, which she did in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005; she had previously participated in large, 100+ player knockout tournaments for the world championship. She is the first, and to date only, woman to have surpassed 2700 Elo, reaching a career peak rating of 2735 and peak world ranking of No. 8 in 2005. She is the only woman to be ranked in the top ten of all chess players, first reaching that ranking in 1996. She was the No. 1 rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement on 13 August 2014.

Dzsenifer Marozsán is a footballer who plays professionally for Olympique Lyonnais in France and the German national team. She previously played for 1. FC Saarbrücken and 1. FFC Frankfurt in Germany's Frauen Bundesliga.

Robert Capa was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.

Zoltán Gera is a Hungarian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He played for Fulham, Pécsi Mecsek and Harkány SE, as well as enjoying two spells at Ferencváros and West Bromwich Albion.

Viktor Kassai is a Hungarian football official and a former referee. He is the head of refereeing department of the Russian Football Union. He participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup and refereed the 2011 UEFA Champions League Final. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2003. He retired as a referee on 30 December 2019.

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

Shaolin Sándor Liu is a Hungarian Olympic champion short track speed skater.

Tímea Babos is a Hungarian professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 25 in the world. She gained world No.1 in the doubles rankings, becoming the first Hungarian player to reach the top of the WTA rankings in either singles or doubles. She has won three singles and 24 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one singles and one doubles WTA 125K series title, and 12 singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Dorka Gryllus is a Hungarian film and theatre actress. She is the daughter of Dániel Gryllus, a Hungarian musician, performer and composer, founding member of folk music group Kaláka and Katalin Kőváry, a theatre director and screenwriter. Dorka Gryllus grew up in Budapest and graduated from the College of Theater and Film Arts in 1998. Between 1998 and 2003 she was a member of the Gergely Csiky Theater in Kaposvár. Her breakthrough role came in the 2009 film Soul Kitchen. She has appeared in more than sixty films since 1995.