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Monarchs, Politicians & Public Figures

  • Stephen I of Hungary
  • István Pásztor
    István Pásztor
    István Pásztor is an ethnic Hungarian politician in Serbia. He graduated from the University of Novi Sad...

  • István Széchenyi
    István Széchenyi
    Széchenyi committed suicide by a shot to his head on April 8, 1860. All Hungary mourned his death. The Academy was in official mourning, along with the most prominent persons of the leading political and cultural associations...

  • István Tisza
    István Tisza
    Count István Tisza de Borosjenő et Szeged was a Hungarian politician, prime minister, and member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences....

  • István Bethlen
    István Bethlen
    Count István Bethlen de Bethlen was a Hungarian aristocrat and statesman and served as Prime Minister from 1921 to 1931....

  • István Werbőczy
    István Werboczy
    István Werbőczy or Stephen Werbőcz was a Hungarian jurist and statesman who first became known as a scholar and theologian of such eminence that he was appointed to accompany the emperor Charles V to Worms, to take up the cudgels against Martin Luther.He began his political career as the deputy of...

  • István Dobi
    István Dobi
    István Dobi was a Hungarian politician and prime minister of Hungary from 1948 to 1952.-Early life:Dobi originated from a poor peasant family and was born in Szőny, Hungary. He finished primary school and in 1916 came into contact with the peasant movement...

  • István Szent-Iványi
    István Szent-Iványi
    István Szent-Iványi is a Hungarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Alliance of Free Democrats, part of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.-About his work:...

  • István Hiller
    István Hiller
    Dr. István Hiller is a Hungarian politician and former chairman of the governing Hungarian Socialist Party between 16 October 2004 and 24 February 2007, succeeding László Kovács, succeeded by Ferenc Gyurcsány...

  • István Rozgonyi
    István Rozgonyi
    István Rozgonyi , son of László, was Comes of Timişoara. He married twice, first to Cecília Rozgonyi by whom he had three sons, János, István, and Imre, and second to Anna Dezsõfi de Losoncz.-References:*...

  • István Friedrich
    István Friedrich
    István Friedrich was a Hungarian politician and factory owner who served as prime minister of Hungary for three months in 1919....

  • István Balogh (politician)
    István Balogh (politician)
    Father István Balogh was a Hungarian priest and anti-communist politician who later tolerated the rule of the Hungarian Communist Party.Initially associated with the Independent Smallholders Party he became a supporter of Nazism for a time during the 1930s and from his base in Debrecen formed a...

  • István Pálfi
    István Pálfi
    István Pálfi was a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party and sit on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Regional Development.Pálfi was a substitute for the Committee...

  • István Horthy
    István Horthy
    István Horthy de Nagybánya ) was Hungarian Regent Admiral Miklós Horthy's eldest son, a politician, and, during World War II, a fighter pilot.-Biography:...

  • István Bittó
    István Bittó
    Count István Bittó de Sárosfa et Nádasd was a Hungarian politician who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hungary from September 10, 1872 to March 23, 1874 and as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1874 to 1875.-Career:Bittó studied law and entered into a legal...

  • István Bibó

Musicians & Artists

  • István Kertész (conductor)
  • István Csók
    István Csók
    István Csók was a Hungarian Impressionist painter. Csok lived and exhibited in Paris for a portion of his life. He became most famous in Hungary for his nudes, portraits, and landscapes of the Lake Balaton. Csok had many international exhibitions in such cities as Rome, San Francisco, Pittsburgh,...

  • István Ferenczy
    István Ferenczy
    István Ferenczy was a nineteenth century Hungarian sculptor.-Artistic education:Ferenczy was born in Rimaszombat...

  • István Orosz
    István Orosz
    István Orosz Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director, is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphoses. The geometric art of István Orosz, with forced perspectives and optical...

  • István Árkossy
    István Árkossy
    Istvan Arkossy is a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He is a member of the Association of Hungarian Creative Artists, the Federation of Hungarian Fine and Applied Arts Societies and the Association of Hungarian Graphic Artists....

  • Istvan Kantor
    Istvan Kantor
    Istvan Kantor is a Hungarian born Canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and founder of Neoism....

  • István Ferenczy
    István Ferenczy
    István Ferenczy was a nineteenth century Hungarian sculptor.-Artistic education:Ferenczy was born in Rimaszombat...

  • István Kiss
    István Kiss
    István Kiss was a Hungarian architect.He finished his studies at Budapest University in 1880 and, between 1882 and 1885, traveled overseas on state scholarship...

  • Miloslav Ištvan
    Miloslav Ištvan
    Miloslav Ištvan was a Czech composer whose work was inspired by the works of Béla Bartók and by the orientation of the modal style of folk songs. He studied Romanian and African folklore...

  • István Cserháti
    István Cserháti
    István Cserháti was a Hungarian hard rock keyboardist who played for two bands: P. Mobil and P. Box ....


Academics

  • István Mészáros (professor)
  • István Hatvani
    István Hatvani
    István Hatvani was a Hungarian mathematician. He worked on developing some of the earliest elements of probability theory.-External links:*...

  • István Fáry
    István Fáry
    István Fáry was a Hungarian-born mathematician known for his work in geometry and algebraic topology. He proved Fáry's theorem that every planar graph has a straight line embedding in 1948, and the Fary–Milnor theorem lower-bounding the curvature of a nontrivial knot in 1949.-Biography:Fáry was...

  • István Hont
    Istvan Hont
    István Hont is a Hungarian-born historian of economics and political thought, University Reader in the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge....


Sportspeople & Entertainers

  • István Vágó
    István Vágó
    István Vágó is a Hungarian television host for the Budapest-based TV2, best known as the host of "Legyen ön is Milliomos" the Hungarian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.-Life:...

  • István Sztani
    István Sztani
    István Sztáni is a former football manager and a retired Hungarian football striker.Sztani left Hungary for Eintracht Frankfurt and faced a one year FIFA ban. With the Main siders he won the German championship in 1959. At the end of the season he moved to Standard Liège of Belgium and stayed...

  • István Szilágyi
    István Szilágyi
    István Szilágyi is a Hungarian former handball player.His first major international tournament was the 1974 World Championship, where he finished seventh with Hungary. He represented his country on further two World Championships in 1978 and 1982.In 1976 he was part of the Hungarian team which...

  • István Somodi
    István Somodi
    István Somodi was a Hungarian athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.He competed for a Hungary in the 1908 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the high jump where he won the silver medal....

  • István Kovács
    István Kovács
    István Kovács , nicknamed Ko-Ko or sometimes The Cobra is a retired Hungarian boxer. As an amateur he won the bantamweight gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and was a world champion at the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships in flyweight and at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships...

  • István Pelle
    István Pelle
    István Pelle was a Hungarian gymnast and Olympic champion.He competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles where he received gold medals in floor exercises and pommel horse, and silver medals in parallel bars and individual all-around.-References:...

  • István Énekes
    István Énekes
    István Énekes was a Hungarian boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.-Background:In 1932 he won the gold medal in the Flyweight class after winning the final against Francisco Cabañas...

  • István Bárány
    István Bárány
    István Bárány was a Hungarian swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, 1928 Summer Olympics and 1932 Summer Olympics....

  • István Verpecz
    István Verpecz
    István Verpecz is a Hungarian football player who currently plays for Debreceni VSC. He made one appearance in the Hungarian League Cup during the 2007-08 season.-External links:*...

  • István Géczi
    István Géczi
    István Géczi is a retired Hungarian football goalkeeper, who played for Ferencvárosi TC.He won a silver medal in football at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and also participated in the 1966 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1972 for the Hungary national football team.Following the end of his career, he...

  • István Havasi
    István Havasi
    István Havasi was a male race walker from Hungary. He competed for his native country at the 1964 Summer Olympics.-Achievements:-References:*...

  • István Déván
    István Déván
    István Déván was a Hungarian track and field athlete and cross-country skier who competed for Hungary in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Winter Olympics.He was born in Pressburg and died in Kempten im Allgäu, West Germany....

  • István Bagyula
    István Bagyula
    István Bagyula is a retired Hungarian pole vaulter. He is a former world junior record holder, having equalled Radion Gataullin's 1984 record of 5.65 metres at the 1988 World Junior Championships. A new championship record at the time, it has not yet been beaten at the WJC...

  • István Mudin
    István Mudin
    István Mudin was a Hungarian athlete who competed mainly in the Pentathlon.He competed for a Hungary in the 1906 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece in the Pentathlon where he won the Silver medal. This added to the bronze medal he won in the Greek style discus throw competition....

  • István Major
    István Major
    István Major is a retired Hungarian high jumper. He won four medals at the European Indoor Championships between 1971 and 1974, as well as a two silver medals at the Universiade. His best Olympic performance was a sixth place in 1972....

  • István Avar
    István Avar
    István Avar was a Romanian-Hungarian footballer and a legend of Újpest FC, most famous for playing for the Hungarian national team in the 1934 World Cup...

  • István Vituska
    István Vituska
    István Vituska is a Hungarian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Újpest FC.-External links:*...

  • István Balogh (footballer)
    István Balogh (footballer)
    István Balogh was a Hungarian footballer who played for Újpest FC, as well as representing the Hungarian national football team at the 1938 FIFA World Cup. Although Hungary got to the final of the tournament Balogh only featured in their opening game, a 6-0 win against the Dutch East Indies...

  • István Ferenczi
    István Ferenczi
    István "Stan" Ferenczi is a Hungarian international football striker, currently playing for Lombard-Pápa TFC. He is a 6'3" target man standing...

  • Istvan Bakx
    Istvan Bakx
    Istvan Bakx is a Dutch footballer who currently plays in Belgium for K.R.C. Genk. He is a left-footed winger, and can also be used as a striker.-Club career:...

  • István Herczeg
    István Herczeg
    István Herczeg was an Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Hungarian team, which won the silver medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1912.-External links:**...

  • István Vaskúti
    István Vaskuti
    István Vaskuti is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1970s to the late 1980s...

  • István Serényi
    István Serényi
    István Serényi was a Hungarian field handball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was born and died in Budapest.Serényi was part of the Hungarian field handball team, which finished fourth in the Olympic tournament. He played four matches....

  • István Gulyás
    István Gulyás
    István Gulyás , after allowing the match to be delayed 24 hours to allow Roche to recover from an ankle injury. It was Gulyas' lone Grand Slam final. He holds the record for most Hungarian National Championship titles by having it awarded 15 times in his career.-Singles: 1 :-References:...

  • István Fazekas
    István Fazekas
    István Fazekas was a Hungarian–British chess master....

  • István Szabó
    István Szabó
    István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European, auteurist art cinema, he has made films that represent many of the psychological and political...

    • István Szabó (canoer)
      István Szabó (canoer)
      István Szabó is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976....

  • István Csom
    István Csom
    István Csom is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster and International Arbiter. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1967 and the Grandmaster title in 1973. He was Hungarian Champion in 1972 and 1973...

  • István Varga
  • István Kozma (disambiguation)
  • István Nagy (disambiguation)
    • István Nagy (athlete), runner
    • István Nagy (footballer)
      István Nagy (footballer)
      István Nagy was a Hungarian footballer. He was born in Budapest.During his club career he played for MTK Hungária FC. For the Hungary national football team, he participated in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, the 1964 European Nations' Cup, and the 1966 FIFA World Cup.-References:*...

  • István Rózsavölgyi
    István Rózsavölgyi
    István Rózsavölgyi was a Hungarian athlete who competed mainly in the 1500 metres.One of the star pupils of Mihály Iglói, Rózsavölgyi entered the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia as the world record holder over 1000 metres, 1500 metres and 2000 metres and was expected to be a...

  • István Nyers
    István Nyers
    István Nyers , also known as Stefano Nyers was a Hungarian football player. Although he played in only two international matches for Hungary, he is considered one of the greatest football legends of his country, reaching the peak of his career in the 1940s and 1950s.- Biography:Nyers was born in...

  • István Tóth
    István Tóth
    István Tóth-Potya was a Hungarian amateur football player.He was a member of the Hungarian Olympic squad at the 1912 Summer Olympics...

  • István Vincze
    István Vincze
    István Vincze is a retired Hungarian football player.He made his debut for the Hungarian national team in 1986, and got 44 caps and 8 goals until 1996.-Clubs:*1984-1988 : Tatabányai Bányász SC*1988-1990 : U.S. Lecce...

  • István Molnár
    István Molnár
    István Molnár was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Hungarian team which won the gold medal. He played one match.-External links:*...

  • István Bilek
    Istvan Bilek
    István Bilek was a Hungarian chess Grandmaster .-Biography:Bilek was a three-time Hungarian Champion , and he played in interzonals in 1962 and 1964. His most successful tournaments were Balatonfüred , Salgótarján , and Debrecen...

  • István Lévai
    István Lévai
    István Lévai is a former boxer from Hungary, who won the bronze medal in the Heavyweight division at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow...

  • István Beé
    István Beé
    István Beé is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1990s to the late 2000s. He won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds , a silver , and two bronzes .Beé also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning...


Other

  • István, a király
    István, a király
    István, a király is a Hungarian rock opera written by Levente Szörényi and János Bródy , based on the life of Saint Stephen of Hungary. The storyline was based on the play Ezredforduló by Miklós Boldizsár, who co-wrote the libretto.The opera was first staged in 1983 on an open-air stage in...

    , rock opera
  • István Cave
    István Cave
    The István Cave is a dripstone cave in Miskolc-Lillafüred, Northern Hungary.The cave was formed in the Triassic period and is about 710 m long. It was discovered in 1913. According to local legend, a dog fell into a 15 meter deep shaft, which was the cave's only natural opening. People found the...

    , a cave in Hungary
  • SMS Szent István
    SMS Szent István
    SMS Szent István was a dreadnought , the only one built in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary. The Ganz & Company's Danubius yard in Hungarian-owned Fiume was awarded the contract to build the battleship in return for the Hungarian government agreeing to the 1910 and 1911 naval budgets...

    , battleship named after Saint Stephen
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