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This is a list of Hungarian Jews. There has been a Jewish presence in Hungary since Roman times (bar a brief expulsion during the Black Death). Jews fared particularly well under the Ottoman Empire, and after emancipation in 1867. At its height, the Jewish population of historical Hungary numbered more than 900,000, but the Holocaust and emigration, especially during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, has reduced that to around 100,000, most of whom live in Budapest and its suburbs.

This is a list of anyone who could be reliably described as "Hungarian" and is of significant Jewish heritage (ethnic or religious). See List of Hungarian Americans for descendents of Hungarian emigres born in America, a significant number of whom are/were of Jewish ancestry.

Historical figures

• Victor Basch, politician
• Johanna Bischitz von Heves, philanthropist
• Pál Hevesy, diplomat
• Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch, merchant
• Miksa Falk, tutor of Hungarian language for emperor Franz-Joseph I.
• Ernő Gerő, communist politician
• Theodor Herzl, Zionist leader
• Miklos Kanitz, survivor
• Rudolf Kasztner, controversial Holocaust figure
• Zsigmond Kornfeld, banker
• Béla Kun, communist revolutionary (Jewish father)
• Leó Lánczy, deputy
• Tom Lantos, US Congressman
• Trebitsch Lincoln, British adventurer [8]
• Max Nordau, Zionist leader
• Alexander Rado, Soviet military intelligence agent
• Mátyás Rákosi, communist politician
• Tibor Rubin, American militaryman
• Rosika Schwimmer, feminist and diplomat
• Yehoshua Stampfer, Zionist pioneer
• Tibor Szamuely, politician [9]
• Hannah Szenes, WW2 partisan
• Moritz Wahrmann, politician
  • Alexander Wahrmann, politician
• Berthold Weisz, deputy
• Solomon Winter, philanthropist
• Markus Nissa Weiss, advocate of Reform
• Philip Wodianer, communal worker
• Theodore Wolfner, deputy

Religious Figures

See Hungarian-Jewish Religious Figures

Scientists

Dennis Gabor, physicist, holography; Nobel laureate David Gestetner, inventor [1] Joseph Goldberger, cure for pellagra Peter Carl Goldmark, inventor of the vinyl record Avram Hershko, biologist, ubiquitin; Nobel laureate George de Hevesy, chemist, radioactive tracers, Nobel laureate Moritz Kaposi, dermatologist, Kaposi's sarcoma[2] Theodore von Kármán, aeronautical engineer John Kemeny, computer scientist, BASIC Nicholas Kurti, physicist John von Neumann, computer scientist, mathematician[3] George Olah, chemist; Nobel laureate Egon Orowan, inventor

John Charles Polanyi, chemist Nobel laureate[10] Adam Politzer, physician Béla Schick, pediatrician, diphtheria test David Schwarz, inventor of the Zeppelin[4] Gabor A. Somorjai, chemist Leó Szilárd, physicist Valentine Telegdi, physicist Edward Teller, physicist, "father of the hydrogen bomb" Charles Weissmann,[5] biochemist Eugene Wigner, physicist; Nobel laureate[6] Leopold Wittelschöfer, physician Franz Wittmann, electrician and physicist

Mathematicians

Raoul Bott [11] Arthur Erdelyi Paul Erdős Lipót Fejér Peter Frankl, street performer Alfréd Haar Paul Halmos Gyula Farkas Dénes Kőnig Gyula Kőnig Lőwy Kornél (Cornelius Lanczos)[12]

Peter Lax George Pólya Rózsa Péter Alfréd Rényi Frigyes Riesz [13] Marcel Riesz [14] Paul Turán Gábor Szegö Endres Szekeres Abraham Wald, statistician [15]

Social scientists

Ignác Acsády, historian[7] Franz Alexander, psychoanalyst Michael Balint, psychoanalyst[8] Peter Thomas Bauer, economist [16] Oskar Ewald, philosopher Sándor Ferenczi, psychoanalyst Ignaz Goldziher, orientalist John Harsanyi, economist, game theory; Nobel laureate [17] Agnes Heller, philosopher Richard Honigswald, theorist Nicholas Kaldor, economist Felix Philipp Kanitz, naturalist[9] Wilhelm Klein, archaelologist János Kornai, economist [18] Imre Lakatos, philosopher of science Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840-1899), educationist and orientalist [10] John Lukacs, historian [19]

Margaret Mahler, psychologist Karl Mannheim, sociologist, sociology of knowledge Henrik Marczali, Hungarian historian Adolf Neubauer, Hebraist[11] Karl Polanyi, economist Michael Polanyi, polymath Géza Révész, psychologist Géza Róheim, psychoanalyst Martin Roth, psychiatrist René Spitz, psychologist Aurel Stein, archeologist Thomas Szasz, psychiatrist Karl Targownik, psychiatrist Geza Vermes, historian [20] Eduard Wertheimer, historian

Films and stage

• Mischa Auer, actor
• George Cukor film director [21]
• Tony Curtis, actor
• Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
• Michael Curtiz, director
• Paul Czinner, director/screenwriter/producer
• Eva Gabor, actor (Jewish mother)^[12]
  • Magda Gabor, actress and socialite (Jewish mother)
  • Zsa Zsa Gabor, actor (Jewish mother)
• Goldie Hawn, actress
• Harry Houdini, magician and film actor
• Kate Hudson, actress
• Gustav Kadelburg, actor, dramatist, writer
• Heinrich Kadelburg, actor
• Péter Kassovitz, director
• Sir Alexander Korda, director & producer
  • Vincent Korda, art director and production designer
• Zoltan Korda, director
• Robert Lantos, producer
• Peter Lorre, actor
• Paul Lukas, actor
• Emeric Pressburger, Oscar-winning film director, screenwriter, producer
• István Szabó, director [22]
• George Tabori, playwright and director
• Alexandre Trauner, set designer
• Rachel Weisz, actress

Musicians

• Paul Abraham, composer
• Moshe Atzmon, conductor
• Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim, singer
• Leopold Auer, conductor, violinist
• Gábor Darvas, composer
• Antal Dorati, conductor (Jewish mother)
• Adam Fischer, conductor
• Annie Fischer, pianist
• Ivan Fischer, conductor
• Carl Flesch, violinist
• Karl Goldmark, composer
• Stephen Heller, composer
• Naftali Hershtik, chazzan
• Joseph Joachim, violinist
• Emmerich Kálmán, composer
• Istvan Kertesz, conductor
• Joseph Kosma, composer
• Lili Kraus, pianist
• György Kurtág, composer
• Yehoshua Lakner, Israeli composer
• György Ligeti, composer
• Oszkar Maleczky, opera singer
• Eugene Ormandy, conductor, violinist
• Ödön Pártos, violist, composer
• Tommy Ramone, drummer
• Fritz Reiner, conductor
• Eduard Remenyi, violinist
• Sigmund Romberg, composer
• Vera Rozsa, singer, singing educator, vocal consultant
• Márk Rózsavölgyi, composer, originator of csardas
• András Schiff, pianist
• Friedrich Schorr, bass-baritone
• Matyas Seiber, composer
• Sir Georg Solti, conductor
• János Starker, cellist
• George Szell, conductor
• Joseph Szigeti, violinist
• Miklós Vig, singer and cabaret performer

Writers

• Béla Balázs, poet & film critic^[13]
• Sándor Bródy, journalist
• Zsigmond Bródy, journalist
• György Faludy, writer
• Miksa Fenyõ, writer, intellectual and politician
• Daniel Ganzfried, Swiss author
• Jenő Heltai, poet
• Theodor Hertzka, journalist
• Arthur Holitscher, essayist, novelist
• Illés Kaczér, satirist, political humorist
• Imre Kertész, author, Nobel Prize (2002)
• Arthur Koestler, novelist & critic [23]
• György Konrád, writer and former political dissident
• Ephraim Kishon, satirist
• Paul Lendvai, journalist
• Rudolf Lothar, dramatist^[14]
• Georg Lukács, philosopher & literary critic
• George Mikes, humorous writer
• Ferenc Molnár, playwright
• Max Simon Nordau, social critic & Zionist leader
• Miklós Radnóti, poet^[15]
• Anna Sandor, screenplay
• Antal Szerb, scholar & writer^[16]
• George Tabori, writer & theatre director
• Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel Peace Prize
• Ludwig Wysber, Hungarian journalist and author
• Zvi Yair, Hebrew poet

Artists

• Imre Ámos, painter
• Margit Anna, painter
• Maurice Ascalon, sculptor & industrial designer (immigrated to Israel)
• Lipót Baumhorn, architect
• Gyula Basch, painter
  • Árpád Basch, painter
  • Andor Basch, painter
• Marcel Breuer, artist, architect
• Robert Capa, photojournalist
• István Farkas, painter
• Andre Francois, painter and graphic artist^[17] (Jewish father)
• John Hirsch, theatre director
• Isidor Kaufman, painter
• Oskar Kaufmann, architect
• André Kertész, photographer
• Paul Laszlo, architect
• László Moholy-Nagy, painter, photographer
• Martin Munkacsi, photographer
• Sylvia Plachy, photographer (Jewish mother)^[18]
• Constantin Daniel Rosenthal, painter
• Hugó Scheiber, painter
• Arpad Szenes, painter
• Lajos Vajda, painter
• Ignaz Wechselmann, architect and philanthropist

Business

• Leo Castelli, Trieste-born US paint merchant^[19]
• André Deutsch, publisher
• Móric Farkasházi Fischer
• William Fox, founder of Fox
• Andrew Grove, co-founder and chairman of Intel
• Josef Ganz, automotive engineer
• Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper baron (Jewish father)
• Reichmann family
• George Soros, financial speculator
• Teodoro Schwartz, father of George Soros
• Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures

Sports

Chess

• Gyula Breyer
• Rezső Charousek
• Ernst Karl Falkbeer
• István Fazekas
• Ernő Gereben
• Isidor Gunsberg
• Ignác Kolisch
• Gyula Kluger
• Imre König
• Samuel Lipschütz
• János Jakab Löwenthal
• Andor Lilienthal
• Josef Noa
• Judit Polgár
• Zsófia Polgár
• Zsuzsa Polgár
• Samuel Lipschütz
• Endre Steiner
• Herman Steiner
• Lajos Steiner
• László Szabó
• Miksa Weiss

Fencing

• Ilona Elek, Olympic fencer (2g1s) (Jewish father)
• Jenö Fuchs, Olympic champion fencer
• Endre Kabos, Olympic fencer (3g1s)
• Attila Petschauer, Olympic champion fencer

Other

• Viktor Barna, table tennis World Champion (5 singles, 8 doubles, 2 mixed)
• Béla Guttman, football (soccer) coach (10 championships, 2 European Cups)
• Dezső Gyarmati, Olympic water polo player & captain (3g1s1b) (half Jewish)^[20]
• Alfréd Hajós, first Olympic swimming champion (2g)
• Paul Havas, Columbia Quarterback (Transylvanian Grandparents)
• György Kárpáti, water polo player (half Jewish)^[21]
• Béla Komjádi, water polo player
• György Bródy, Olympic water polo players (3g1b & 2g & 2g)^[22]
• Ágnes Keleti, Olympic gymnast (5g4s1b)
• Ferenc Kemény, co-founder and first secretary of the IOC^[23]
• Lily Kronberger, figure skating World Champion (4g2b)
• Emilie Rotter & Laszlo Szollas, figure skating World Champions (4g1s) & Olympic medalists (2b)
• Gusztáv Sebes, national Hungarian football (soccer) coach (gold medal at the 1952 Olympics, and silver medal at the 1954 FIFA World Cup)
• Anna Sipos, table tennis World Champion (2 singles, 6 doubles, 2 mixed)
• Miklós Szabados, table tennis World Champion (1 singles, 6 doubles, 3 mixed)^{[citation needed]}
• Éva Székely & Andrea Gyarmati, mother and daughter Olympic swimmers (1g1s & 1s1b)^[24]
  • Eva was married to Dezső Gyarmati (see below), while Andrea married canoeist Mihály Hesz (1g1s)

Pedigrees

• Baron Hatvany-Deutsch family
• Zuckerkandl pedigree
• the House of Bischitz von Heves / Hevesy-Bischitz
• Mendel family

See also

• List of Hungarians
• History of the Jews in Hungary

References

1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was a devout Jew"
2. ^ converted to Catholicism
3. ^ converted to Catholicism
4. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica
5. ^ [1]
6. ^ Views of a Physicist: selected papers of N.G. van Kampen - Page 233 - Parents were Lutheran by religion
7. ^ (Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Historians)
8. ^ [2]
9. ^ converted to Christianity
10. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "registered with the Jewish community of Pest"; Jewish Encyclopedia
11. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia article on Adolf Neubauer
12. ^ Catholic by religion
13. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Balazs, Bela; [http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/taite/vk/honti/principl.pdf (p100, footnote 171) "German on his mother's side and Jewish on his father's"
14. ^ [3]
15. ^ converted to Catholicism
16. ^ brought up a Catholic
17. ^ [4]
18. ^ Catholic by religion
19. ^ [5]
20. ^ http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501k.pdf
21. ^ http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501k.pdf
22. ^ [6]
23. ^ http://www.jewishsports.net/PillarAchievementBios/FerencKemeny.htm
24. ^ [7]

External links

• Jewish Hungarians and Hungarian Jews
• A list of about 5000 Hungarian Jews

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