List of Famous people born in Somogy County, Hungary

Imre Nagy

First Name Imre
Last Name Nagy
Born on June 7, 1896
Died on June 16, 1958 (aged 62)

Imre Nagy was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Prime Minister and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet-backed government, for which he was sentenced to death and executed two years later.

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Péter Frankl

First Name Péter
Last Name Frankl
Born on March 26, 1953 (age 71)

Péter Frankl is a mathematician, street performer, columnist and educator, active in Japan. Frankl studied Mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and submitted his PhD thesis while still an undergraduate. He holds PhD degree from University Paris Diderot as well. He has lived in Japan since 1988, where he is a well-known personality and often appears in the media. He keeps travelling around Japan performing. Frankl won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1971. He has seven joint papers with Paul Erdős, and eleven joint papers with Ronald Graham. His research is in combinatorics, especially in extremal combinatorics. He is the author of the union-closed sets conjecture.

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Imre Varga

First Name Imre
Last Name Varga
Born on November 1, 1923
Died on December 9, 2019 (aged 96)

Imre Varga was a Hungarian sculptor, painter, designer and graphic artist. He was regarded as one of Hungary's most important living artists, and he has been called one of the "most skilled sculptors in Hungary."

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Emmerich Kálmán

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First Name Emmerich
Last Name Kálmán
Born on October 24, 1882
Died on October 30, 1953 (aged 71)

Emmerich Kálmán was an Hungarian composer of operettas and a prominent figure in the development of Viennese operetta in the 20th century. Among his most popular works are Die Csárdásfürstin (1915) and Gräfin Mariza (1924). Influences on his compositional style include Hungarian folk music, the Viennese style of precursors such as Johann Strauss II and Franz Lehár, and, in his later works, American jazz. As a result of the Anschluss, Kálmán and his family fled to Paris and then to the United States. He eventually returned to Europe in 1949 and died in Paris in 1953.

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Antal Bolvári

First Name Antal
Last Name Bolvári
Born on May 6, 1932
Died on January 8, 2019 (aged 86)

Antal Bolvári was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

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Erzsébet Nagy

First Name Erzsébet
Born on April 13, 1927
Died on January 29, 2008 (aged 80)

Erzsébet Nagy was a Hungarian writer and translator, and the only child of the former Prime Minister of Hungary, Imre Nagy, who was executed following the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

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Mya Diamond

First Name Mya
Born on April 11, 1981 (age 43)
Height 160 cm | 5'3

Mya Diamond is a Hungarian pornographic actress and nude model, who starred in the movie Porn Wars.

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Vali Racz

First Name Vali
Died on February 12, 1997 (aged 27)

Vali Rácz was a successful Hungarian singer and film actress, the darling of the Hungarian public. She finished the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest 1932. Between 1933 and 1934, she played at City Theatre and then at Hungarian Theatre. In 1936, she sang at 'Terézkörúti Színpad' and at City Theatre for three years. After 1945 she was a member of Royal Revue-theatre, Medgyaszay Theatre, then Kamara Varieté. She acted in twenty films, but was primarily a chanteuse, giving solo concerts at the Music Academy and Vigadó concert hall, as well as appearing regularly at the Hangli Kioszk nightclub. She left Hungary with her husband Peter Halász and children, Mónika and Valér, in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. She lived in New York City, later in London, and in 1975 settled in Munich, Germany. On 25 May 1992, she was honoured as a Righteous Gentile by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, for having saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust. She died at the age of 85 in 1997.

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Judit Pogány

First Name Judit

Judit Pogány is a Hungarian actress. She has appeared in more than seventy films since 1974.

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László Kalmár

First Name László
Last Name Kalmár
Born on March 27, 1905
Died on August 2, 1976 (aged 71)

László Kalmár was a Hungarian mathematician and Professor at the University of Szeged. Kalmár is considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science in Hungary.

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