List of Famous people born in Vas County, Hungary

María Josepha Sophia de Iturbide was the head of the Imperial House of Mexico from 1925 to 1949. A modest and very religious lady she played no political role whatsoever. She married twice and had two daughters.

László Detre was a Hungarian astronomer well known for his work on variable stars.

Count Imre Festetics de Tolna was a noble landowner and geneticist.

Csaba Hegedűs is a retired middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Hungary. In 1971 he won a world title and was named the Hungarian Sportsman of the year. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1972. In 1973, he barely survived a traffic accident. He recovered by 1975, when he placed fourth at the world championships, and won European titles in 1976 and 1977. Between 1979 and 1989 he coached the Hungarian wrestling team and later became a sports administrator, working at the national wrestling association, the Hungarian Olympic Committee, and the Fédération Internationale des Luttes Associées (FILA).

Count Ferenc II Nádasdy de Nádasd et Fogarasföld was a Hungarian nobleman. His family, Nádasdy, was one of the wealthiest and most influential of the era in Hungary. In 1571, when Ferenc was 16, his mother, Orsolya Nádasdy, using her association with many noble families in Hungary, organized a marriage to the young Elizabeth Báthory, daughter of the Count György and Anna Báthory. The Báthory family were as rich and illustrious as the Nádasdy family, though older and more influential, since they had several relatives who had the charge of Nádor (palatine) of Hungary. Among them, included a cardinal, a King of Lithuania-Poland, and a Prince of Transylvania.

Krisztián Pars is a Hungarian hammer thrower. He competed at the Summer Olympics in 2004, 2008, and 2012, winning the gold medal in 2012. He also won the 2012 and 2014 European championships.

László Weiner was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor who perished in the Holocaust.

Katalin Makray is a Hungarian former gymnast who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics.