List of Famous people born in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County, Hungary

Sándor Fazekas is a Hungarian jurist and politician. He served as Minister of Rural Development, then Minister of Agriculture from 2010 to 2018, in the second and third cabinets of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. He served as mayor of his hometown, Karcag between 1990 and 2010.

Sándor Csányi is a Hungarian billionaire businessman, banker, and philanthropist. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of OTP Bank Group, one of the largest financial groups in the CEE Region and the largest bank of Hungary. He is a shareholder and board member of the Hungarian-based multinational oil and gas company, MOL Group. He owns Bonafarm, the holding company of a Hungarian agricultural and food manufacture group. With an estimated wealth of 393,4 billion forint as of 2021, he is according to Forbes, the 2nd wealthiest person in Hungary, and the country's first billionaire.

Elemér Pászti was a Hungarian gymnast who competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics and the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Gábor Szegő was a Hungarian-American mathematician. He was one of the foremost mathematical analysts of his generation and made fundamental contributions to the theory of orthogonal polynomials and Toeplitz matrices building on the work of his contemporary Otto Toeplitz.