Famous Hungarians

Chess Grandmaster and the only female to achieve the title

Considered to be the best Hungarian football player

19th century pianist and a musical composer

Hungarian PM during WWI

Communist revolutionary and 1919 leader of Hungarian soviet republic, deposed after lost war with Romania and Czechoslovakia

Hungarian leader from 1920 to 1944, arguably considered by some a fascist

Nazi collaborator and Arrow Cross Party leader, who took power in 1944 coup overthrowing the former

Prominent 30's antisemitist, who changed his view and protected Jews during Holocaust and was subsequently executed by Nazis

First communist leader of Hungary from 1948 to 1953, founder of Hungarian Workers Party (MDP) and a mass murderer

Communist leader of 1956 uprising, executed by Soviets

Communist leader from 1956 to 1988

Author of a famous puzzle cube

Poet and a revolutionary commander killed in 1848 revolution

Poet, author of Himnusz, the national anthem of Hungary

Minister of transportation during the 1848 revolution and author of the first Budapest bridge across the Danube

Prime minister during the 1848 revolution

Hungarian PM in the final stages of 1848-49 revolution, replacing the former

Best known for the 1867 Austro-Hungarian compromise, but also 1848 minister of justice, who disapproved leadership of the former

Hungarian PM in 1867-71 and founder of Budapest

Prominent military commander during 1848-49 revolution, most notable for his defense of Komárom

Nobleman, leader of 1703-11 war of independence against the Habsburg monarchy

First democratically elected president of Hungary in 1990

Doctor who pioneered antiseptical procedures

The only Hungarian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize