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{{Jew list}} {{Jews by country}}
This is a '''list of Hungarian Jews'''. There has been a ]ish presence in today's Hungary since ] (bar a brief expulsion during the ]), long before the actual Hungarian nation. Jews fared particularly well under the ], and after ] in 1867. At its height, the Jewish population of historical Hungary numbered more than 900,000, but ] and ], especially during the ], has reduced that to around 100,000, most of whom live in ] and its suburbs.
{{JewsByCountry}}

There has been a ]ish presence in ] since ] (bar a brief expulsion during the ]). Jews fared particularly well under the ], and after ] in ]. At its height, the Jewish population of historical Hungary numbered more than 900,000, but ] and ], especially during the ], has reduced that to around 100,000, most of whom live in ] 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 ] for descendants of Hungarian émigrés born in America, a significant number of whom are of Jewish ancestry.


The names are presented in the Western European convention of the given name preceding the family name, whereas in Hungary, the reverse is true, as in most Asian cultures.
This is a list of anyone who could be reliably described as "Hungarian" and is of significant Jewish heritage (ethnic or religious). See ] for descendents of Hungarian emigres born in America, a significant number of whom are/were of Jewish ancestry.


==Historical figures== ==Historical figures==
]]]
* ], politician
* ], one of the leaders of the Paris Commune
* ], philanthropist
* ], islamologist, (non-Jewish mother, Jewish father)
* ], diplomat
* ], merchant * ], islamologist
* Tivadar Herzl (]), spiritual founder of Israel
* ], communist politician
* ], de facto leader of Hungary for 4 months in 1919 (non-Jewish mother, Jewish father)
* ], Zionist leader
* ], co-founder of the World Zionist Organization
* ], survivor
* ]
* ], controversial Holocaust figure
* ], banker * ]
* ], British adventurer<ref>{{cite web |last=Segal |first=Eliezer |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/040620_Trebisch.html |title=The Treacherous Mr. Trebisch |work=The Jewish Free Press |date=June 24, 2004 |page=10}}</ref>
* ], communist revolutionary (Jewish father)
* ], deputy * ]
* ], Zionist leader * ], newspaper publisher
* ], Soviet military intelligence agent * Sándor Radó (]) Switzerland-based Soviet master spy in World War II
* ], communist politician * ], de facto leader of Hungary, 1947–1956
* ] director of the Budapest Public Library System, 1911–1918
* ], American militaryman
* ], politician<ref>{{cite book |last=Major |first=Mark Imre |year=1974 |url=http://www.hungarianhistory.com/lib/maj/maj06.htm |title=American Hungarian Relations, 1918-1944 |publisher=Danubian Press |pages=54–66 |isbn=9780879340360}}</ref>
* ], feminist and diplomat
* ], orientalist and traveler
* ], Zionist pioneer
* ], first Jewish Justice minister of Hungary, 1917–1918
* ], WW2 partisan
* ], legal scholar known for his contributions to the Hungarian Legal Philosophy, 1873–1920
* ], politician
** ], politican
* ], deputy
* ], philanthropist
* ], advocate of Reform
* ], communal worker
* ], deputy


==Athletes==
==Religious Figures==
<!-- NB These are arranged by sport first, not surname -->


===Boxing===
:''See'' '']''
]]]
* ], Olympic champion ]


==Academics== ===Canoeing===
* ], ], Olympic champion (K-2 10,000 meter), 4x world champion (3x K-2 10,000 meter and 1x K-4 10,000 meter) and one silver (K-4 10,000 meter)<ref name="books.google.com">Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 228.</ref>
* ], physicist, ]; Nobel Prize (1971)
* ], sprint canoer, 2x Olympic bronze (C-2 1,000 and 10,000 meter)<ref name="books.google.com"/>
* ], cure for ]
* ], sprint canoer, Olympic bronze (K-2 500 m), world champion (K-2 500 m)<ref>Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 229.</ref>
* ], inventor of the ]
* ], sprint canoer, Olympic 2x silver (K-2 500 m), bronze (K-1 500 m); world champion (K-2 500 m), silver (K-4 500 m), 2x bronze (K-2 500)<ref>Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 238.</ref>
* ], biologist, ]; Nobel Prize (2004)
* ], chemist, ]s, Nobel Prize (1943)
* ], dermatologist, ]<ref>converted to Catholicism</ref>
* ], aeronautical engineer
* ], computer scientist, ]
* ], physicist
* ], computer scientist, mathematician<ref>converted to Catholicism</ref>
* ], chemist; Nobel Prize (1994)
* ], inventor
* ], physician
* ], pediatrician, ] test
* ], chemist
* ], physicist
* ], physicist
* ], physicist, ]
* ]<ref></ref>, biochemist
* ], physicist; Nobel Prize (1963)<ref>''Views of a Physicist: selected papers of N.G. van Kampen'' - Page 233 - Parents were Lutheran by religion</ref>
* ], physician
* ], electrician and physicist


===Mathematicians=== ===Fencing===
]]]
]]]
* ] (born "Buchwald", 1938), saber, Olympic 3x bronze
* ] (née "Schacherer"; 1907–1988), foil fencer; Olympic gold-medal winner, and world champion, both before and after World War II
* Dr. ] (1880–1950), saber, 2x Olympic champion
* Dr. ] (1882–1955), saber, 4x Olympic champion<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-wUg6rlWS2kC&pg=PA340 |title=Jewish Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History |author1=Frojimovics, Kinga |author2=Komoróczy, Géza |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=963-9116-37-8 |year=1999 |page=340}}</ref>
* ] (1932–2007), épée, Olympic champion
* ] (1889–1945), saber, Olympic champion, silver, bronze, killed by the Nazis
* Dr. ] (1883–1944), saber, 2x Olympic champion, killed by the Nazis<ref name="google1">Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 107.</ref>
* Dr. ] (1895–1968), saber, Olympic champion
* ] (1906–1944), saber, 3x Olympic champion, bronze, killed while performing forced labour for the Nazis
* ] (1904–1943), saber, 2x team Olympic champion, silver, killed by the Nazis
* ] (1880–1966), Hungarian Olympic champion saber fencer
* ] (born 1937), foil, 2x Olympic champion<ref name=ghetto>{{cite book |title=From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary|author=Handler, Andrew|isbn=0-88033-085-6 |publisher= East European Monographs|year=1985}}</ref>
* ] (1883–1943), saber, 2x Olympic champion
* ], born György Woittitz (1915–2006), Hungarian-born American Olympic medalist fencer


===Figure skating===
*], mathematician (Jewish mother)
* ], World Championship 4x gold, 2x bronze, ]
*], mathematician
* ], pair skater, World Championship 4x gold, silver, 2x Olympic bronze
*], mathematician
* ], pair skater, World Championship gold, silver, 2x Olympic bronze
*], mathematician
*], mathematician, street performer
*], mathematician
*], mathematician
*], mathematician
*] & ], mathematicians
*], mathematician
*], mathematician
*], mathematician
*], mathematician
*], mathematician
*] & ], mathematicians
*], mathematician
*], mathematician
*], mathematician
*], statistician


===Social scientists=== ===Gymnastics===
* ], historian<ref>(], art. ''Historians'')</ref>
* ], psychoanalyst
* ], psychoanalyst
* ], economist
* ], philosopher
* ], psyhologist
* ], orientalist
* ], economist, ]; Nobel Prize (1994)
* ], philosopher
* ], theorist
* ], economist
* ], naturalist<ref>(converted to Christianity)</ref>
* ], archaelologist
* ], philosopher of science
* ], psychologist
* ], sociologist, ]
* ], Hungarian historian
* ], economist
* ], polymath
* ], psychologist
* ], psychoanalyst
* ], psychiatrist
* ], psychologist
* ], archeologist
* ], psychiatrist
* ], psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor
* ], historian


* ], Olympic silver (team combined exercises)
==Films and stage==
* ], Olympic silver (team combined exercises)
* ], actor
* ], 5-time Olympic champion (2-time floor exercises, asymmetrical bars, floor exercises, balance beam, team exercise with portable apparatus), 3-time silver (2-time team combined exercises, individual combined exercises), 2x bronze (asymmetrical bars, team exercises with portable apparatus), International Gymnastics Hall of Fame<ref name="jewishsports3">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/Tables/LastNameSearch.htm |title=Elected Members |publisher=International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* ] film director
* ], Olympic champion (team, portable apparatus), silver (team); world silver (team)<ref name="Taylor, p. 234">Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 234.</ref>
* ], director
* ], director/screenwriter/producer
* ], actor (Jewish mother; Catholic by religion)
** ], actress and socialite (Jewish mother; Catholic by religion)
**], actor (Jewish mother; Catholic by religion)
* ], magician
* ], actor, dramatist, writer
* ], actor
* ]
* Sir ], director & producer
** ], art director and production designer
* ], director
* ], producer
* ], actor
* ], actor
* ], Oscar-winning film director, screenwriter, producer
* ], Oscar-winning film director and screenwriter
* ], set designer


===Soccer (association football)===
==Musicians==
* ], composer
* ], conductor
* ], singer
* ], conductor, violinist
* ], composer
* ], conductor (Jewish mother)
* ], conductor
* ], pianist
* ], conductor
* ], violinist
* ], composer
* ], composer
* ], violinist
* ], composer
* ], conductor
* ], composer
* ], pianist
* ], composer
* ], Israeli composer
* ], composer
* ], conductor, violinist
* ], violist, composer
* ], drummer
* ], conductor
* ], violinist
* ], composer
* ], singer, singing educator, vocal consultant
* ], composer, originator of ]
* ], pianist
* ], bass-baritone
* ], composer
* Sir ], conductor
* ], cellist
* ], conductor
* ], violinist


* ], midfielder/forward (national team)<ref name=ghetto/><ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports |publisher=Bloch Publishing Company |year= 1965|author1=Postal, Bernard |author2=Silver, Jesse |author3=Silver, Roy |page=418}}</ref>
==Writers==
* ], first owner of ]
* ], poet & film critic (Jewish father)<ref>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"</ref>
* ], born in Hungary; soccer goalkeeper for Sydney Hakoah club and Australia, Maccabi Hall of Fame 2003. Played 1st grade 1964 till 1976; International career from 1966 to 1972, against Scotland 1967, Greece 1969, Israel 1969 & 1972. Played against various European club sides including AS ROMA 1966, Manchester United.
* ], journalist
* ], goalkeeper, Olympic champion
* ], journalist
* ], midfielder, national team player, and international coach
* ], writer
* ], Hungarian international
* ], writer, intellectual and politician
* ] (1888–1982), Hungarian international
* ], Swiss author
* ] (1890–1962), Hungarian international
* ], poet
* ], half back (player & coach of Hungarian and Israeli national teams) and manager
* ], journalist
* ], essayist, novelist * ], Olympic champion

* ], satirist, political humorist
===Swimming===
* ], author, Nobel Prize (2002)
]]]
* ], writer and former political dissident
]]]
* ], satirist
* ], Olympic silver (100-m backstroke) and bronze (100-m butterfly); world championships bronze (200-m backstroke), International Swimming Hall of Fame<ref name=autogenerated2 /> (both parents half-Jewish)
* ], journalist
* ] (born "Arnold Guttmann"), 3x Olympic champion (100-m freestyle, 800-m freestyle relay, 1,500-m freestyle), International Swimming Hall of Fame<ref name="jewishsports3"/>
* ], dramatist<ref></ref>
* ], Israel, 200-m butterfly, 200- and 400-m individual medley
* ], philosopher & literary critic
* ], Olympic silver (4x200-m freestyle relay)
* ], humorous writer
* ], her grandfather was born in Nagyvárad (now Oradea)
* ], playwright
* ], his great-grandfather (Nathan) was born in Hungary
* ], social critic & Zionist leader
* ], Olympic bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay)
* ], poet<ref>(converted to Christianity)</ref>
* ], Olympic silver (200-m breaststroke) and bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay); died in a Nazi concentration camp
* ], screenplay writer
* ], Olympic champion & silver (200-m breaststroke); International Swimming Hall of Fame; mother of ]<ref name=autogenerated2 /> (mother Jewish, father Roman Catholic szekler)
* ], Esperanto writer, father of George Soros
* ], Olympic champion (4×100-m freestyle), bronze (100-m freestyle)<ref>{{cite book |last=Wechsler |first=Bob |year=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&pg=PA249 |title=Day by Day in Jewish Sports History |publisher=KTAV Publishing House, Inc |page=249 |isbn=978-1-60280-013-7}}</ref>
* ], scholar & writer<ref>(converted to Christianity)</ref>
* ], Olympic silver (4x200-m freestyle relay)
* ], writer & theatre director

* ], writer, Nobel Peace Prize
===Table tennis===
* ], Hungarian journalist and author
* ] (born "Győző Braun"), 22-time world champion, International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame ("ITTFHoF")
* ], Hebrew poet
* ], 7-time world champion, ITTFHoF
* ], 11-time world champion, ITTFHoF
* ], 15-time world champion
* ]
* ]

===Tennis===
* ], won 1958 French Open Singles, world # 2.

===Track and field===

* ], Olympic bronze (medley relay)<ref>Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 226.</ref>
* ], Olympic champion & European champion ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=jewish_athletes_medals&lang=en |title=Jewish Athletes – Olympic Medalists |publisher=] |accessdate=February 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718211611/http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=jewish_athletes_medals&lang=en |archivedate=July 18, 2012 }}</ref>
* ], javelin, Olympic bronze<ref name="Taylor, p. 234"/> (Calvinist priest)

===Water polo===

* ], Olympic champion
* ], Olympic champion, gold
* ], (3g1b & 2g & 2g), goalkeeper, 2-time Olympic champion<ref name=autogenerated2>Eisen, George. . International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* ], Olympic ] player & captain (3g1s1b) (half Jewish)<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite journal |last=Riess |first=Steven A. |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501k.pdf |title=From the Ghetto To The Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary (review) |journal=Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies |volume=5 |date=1996 |pages=153–158 |access-date=2012-06-26 |archive-date=2008-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529190441/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501k.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ], 3-time Olympic champion, 1 time bronze<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref>Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 93.</ref> (half Jewish)
* ] water polo player and coach, International Swimming Hall of Fame<ref>{{cite book |last=Siegman |first=Joseph |year=2000 |title=Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame |publisher=Brassey's Incorporated |isbn=9781574882841}}</ref>
* ], 2-time Olympic champion, 2-time bronze<ref>Taylor, ''Jews and the Olympic Games'', p. 236.</ref>
* ], 2-time Olympic champion
* ], 1976 Olympic Assistant Coach and Game Plan Manager of Team Canada

===Wrestling===
* ] (also "Károly Kellner"), Olympic champion (freestyle lightweight), silver

===Other sports===
* Paul Havas, ] quarterback<ref name=autogenerated1b>{{cite web |url=http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=43658&SPID=3885&DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=924716&Q_SEASON=2008 |title=2011 Football Roster: Paul Havas |website=www.gocolumbialions.com}}</ref>
* Ferenc Kemény, co-founder and first secretary of the ]<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061219150052/http://jewishsports.net/PillarAchievementBios/FerencKemeny.htm |date=2006-12-19 }}. International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* László Bartók, Rowing (Paris 1924 eight and coxed four, Amsterdam 1928 coxed four) and 1932 men's coxless four European Rowing Champion<ref>https://olympics.com/en/athletes/laszlo-bartok {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/67.html | title=Weltmeisterschaften (Herren - Teil 1) }}</ref>

==Olympic gold medalists at the Summer Games==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Period
! 1896-1912
! 1924-1936
! 1948-1956
! 1960-1972
! 1976-1992 (1984 excluded)
! 1996-2008
|-
| # of Olympics
| 5
| 4
| 3
| 4
| 4
| 4
|-
| Total Golds
| 442
| 482
| 440
| 684
| 903
|1172
|-
| Hungarian Golds
| 11
| 22
| 35
| 32
| 33
| 26
|-
| Hungarian/total World
| 2.49%
| 4.56%
| 7.95%
| 4.68%
| 3.65%
| 2.22%
|-
| Hungarian Individual Gold
| 9
| 17
| 26
| 22
| 27
| 16
|-
| Hungarian Jewish Individual
| 5
| 3
| 6
| 4
| 0
| 0
|-
| Jewish/total individual Hungarian
| 55.56%
| 17.65%
| 23.08%
| 18.18%
| 0%
| 0%
|-
| Jews in Gold Teams
| 57.14% = 8/14
| 28.21%= 11/39
|
|
|
|
|-
| Jews in population
| 5.0% (1910)
| 5.12% (1930)
| 1.45% (1949)
|
|
| 0.13% (2001)
|}

===Before the Holocaust===

Hungarian Jews, while comprising some 5% of the population of Hungary, won 8 individual gold medals for Hungary out of 26 (30.8%) in the Olympic sports events between 1896 and 1936. In each of the 7 gold winning teams, there were Hungarian Jews making up 35.8% of the teams (19 out of 53 team members).

====1896====
* Alfréd Hajós-Guttman (2) swimming, 100-meter freestyle, 1,500-meter freestyle

====1906====
* Alfréd Hajós-Guttman, swimming, 800-meter freestyle relay

====1908====
* Dezső Földes, fencing, team saber
* Dr.Jenő Fuchs (2), fencing, individual saber, team saber
* Dr. Oszkár Gerde, fencing, team saber
* Lajos Werkner, fencing, team saber
* Richard Weisz, Greco-Roman wrestling, heavyweight

====1912====
* Dezső Földes, fencing, team saber
* Dr. Jenő Fuchs (2), fencing, individual saber, team saber
* Dr. Oszkár Gerde, fencing, team saber
* Lajos Werkner, fencing, team saber

====1924====
* Alfred Hajós, Olympic art competition, architecture
* ], Gold Medal, Individual Trap Competition

====1928====
* János Garay, fencing, team saber
* Dr. Sándor Gombos, fencing, team saber
* Attila Petschauer, fencing, team saber
* Dr. Ferenc Mező, Olympic art competition, epic works

====1932====
* István Barta, water polo
* György Brody, water polo
* Miklós Sárkány, water polo
* Endre Kabos, fencing, team saber
* Attila Petschauer, fencing, team saber

====1936====
* György Bródy, water polo
* Miklos Sárkány, water polo
* Endre Kabos (2), fencing, individual saber, team saber
* Ilona Elek, individual foil
* Károly Kárpáti, freestyle wrestling, lightweight

===After the Holocaust, 1948-1972===

After the Holocaust, less than 1% of the population of Hungary remained of Jewish heritage.
In individual sports events, Hungary won 48 gold medals between 1948 and 1972. Sportsmen and mainly sportswomen of Jewish extraction won 10 gold medals (20.8%). Hungarian Jewish women won 7 gold medals out of the 15 individual gold medals won by Hungarian women. In the 19 gold medal-winning teams for Hungary, 9 had Jewish members.

There are no known Hungarian Jewish gold medalist since 1976. Overall, Hungarian Jews won 15.4% of the 117 individual gold medals of Hungary, and had part in at least 16 out of the 42 gold medals in team events.

====1948====
* Ilona Elek, individual foil

====1952====
* Robert Antal, water polo
* Sándor Gellér, soccer
* Ágnes Keleti, gymnastics, floor exercises
* Éva Székely, swimming, 200-meter breaststroke

====1956====
* Ágnes Keleti (4)
** gymnastics, asymmetrical bars, floor exercises, balance beam,
** team exercise with portable apparatus
* Aliz Kertész, gymnastics, team exercise with portable apparatus
* László Fábián, kayak pairs, 10,000-meters

====1960====
* Gyula Török, boxing, flyweight

====1964====
* Tamás Gábor, fencing, team épée
* Ildikó Rejtő (2), fencing, individual and team foil
* Árpád Orbán, soccer

====1968====
* Mihály Hesz, kayak, K1 1000m

====1972====
* Gyorgy Gedó, boxing, light flyweight


==Artists== ==Artists==
]]]
* ], painter
]]]
* ], painter
* ], painter, born 1907 in ], killed during the Holocaust
* ], sculptor & industrial designer (immigrated to Israel)
* ], architect * ], photographer
* ], painter * ]
* ]<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222005005/http://www.terminartors.com/artistprofile/Fenyes_Adolf |date=2011-12-22 }}. Terminartors. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
** ], painter
* ], painter and graphic artist<ref>. PBase. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref> (Jewish father)
** ], painter
* ], sculptor<ref>{{cite web |url=http://filmhiradok.nava.hu/watch.php?id=6665 |title=Goldmann György szobrász- és Sugár Andor festőművészek kiállítása |publisher=Filmhiradok Online |accessdate=May 9, 2013 |language=Hungarian |archive-date=April 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402084518/http://filmhiradok.nava.hu/watch.php?id=6665 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ], photographer (possible Jewish father)<ref></ref>
* ], born Laszlo Elkan, photographer, known best for his architectural photographs, particularly those associated with Le Corbusier.
* ], artist, architect
* ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.terminartors.com/artistprofile/Ivanyi_Grunwald_Bela |title=Iványi Grünwald, Béla |publisher=Terminartors |accessdate=May 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501075330/http://www.terminartors.com/artistprofile/Ivanyi_Grunwald_Bela |archivedate=May 1, 2013 }}</ref>
* ], photojournalist
* ], born Andor Kertész, photographer, photo-essayist
* ], painter
* ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/culture/article/a_hungarian_lens_on_photography |title=A Hungarian Lens on Photography |publisher=Jewish Journal |accessdate=June 19, 2015}}</ref>
* ], painter and graphic artist<ref></ref> (Jewish father)
* ], born Gyorgy Mayer, artist
* ], theatre director
* ]
* ], painter
* ], photographer, born Miklós Mandl, Szeged HU, 1892-1965 New York City, and Olympic fencer.<ref>]</ref> Known for his advances in commercial photography, most notably the first use of color film.
* ], architect
* ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.terminartors.com/artistprofile/Perlmutter_Izsak |title=Perlmutter, Izsák |publisher=Terminartors |accessdate=May 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816052142/http://www.terminartors.com/artistprofile/Perlmutter_Izsak |archivedate=August 16, 2013 }}</ref>
* ], photographer
* ], artist, designer, famous for his Las Vegas neon creations. Born to Jewish Hungarian parents.
* ], architect
* ], painter, photographer
* ], photographer
* ], photographer (Jewish mother)<ref>Catholic by religion</ref>
* ], painter
* ], painter
* ], painter
* ], painter
* ], architect and philanthropist


==Business== ==Business==
=== Businessmen===
* ], ]-born US paint merchant <ref></ref>
]]]
* ], publisher
* ], venture capitalist
* ]
* ], ]-born American art dealer of note.<ref>Diegidio, Tom (September 11, 1999). . ''Salon''.</ref>
* ], founder of Fox
* ], co-founder and chairman of ] * ], one of the founders and the CEO of ]
* ]
* ], automotive engineer
* ]'s parents were born in Hungary
* ], newspaper baron (Jewish father)
* ], rabbi and businessman
* ]
* ], financial speculator * ], Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist
* ], bankruptcy specialist
* ], father of ]
* ], founder of ]


=== Industrialists and bankers ===
==Sports==
* ], founder the ] in 1839
<!-- NB These are arranged by sport, not surname -->
* ]
===Chess===
*Jenő Vida
* ]
*]
* ]
* ]
* ]
*Fülöp Weisz
* ]
*Gedeon Richter
* ]

==Chess players==
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* ] * ]
* ] * ]
* ] * ]
* ] * ]
* ] * ]
* ]
* ]
* ] * ]
* ] * ]
* ] * ]
* ]
* ]
* ] * ]
* ] * ]
* ] * ]
* ] * ]
*] (both parents Hungarian Jews)
* ]


===Other=== == Film and stage==
* ], ] World Champion (5 singles, 8 doubles, 2 mixed)
* ], Olympic fencer (2g1s) (Jewish father)
* ], ] coach (10 championships, 2 European Cups)
* ], Olympic ] player & captain (3g1s1b) (half Jewish)<ref>http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501k.pdf</ref>
* ], first Olympic ] champion (2g)
* ], Olympic champion fencer
* ], Olympic champion fencer
* ], Olympic ] (3]1])
* ], ], ], Olympic water polo players (3g1b & 2g & 2g) <ref></ref>
* ], Olympic ] (5g4s1b)
* ], co-founder and first secretary of the ]{{fact}}
* ], ] World Champion (4g2b)
* ] & ]<!-- ??? Szollas -->, figure skating World Champions (4g1s) & Olympic medalists (2b)
* ], national Hungarian ] coach (gold medal at the ], and silver medal at the ])
* ], table tennis World Champion (2 singles, 6 doubles, 2 mixed)
* ], table tennis World Champion (1 singles, 6 doubles, 3 mixed){{fact}}
* ] & ], mother and daughter Olympic swimmers (1g1s & 1s1b)<ref></ref>
** Eva was married to Dezső Gyarmati (see below), while Andrea married canoeist ] (1g1s)


==Pedigrees== ===Actors===
]]]
* Baron ] family
]]]
* ] pedigree
* ] pedigree * ]
* ] (paternal side)
* the House of ] von ] / ]
* ] (father Jewish, born Szöke)
* ] family
* ]; his parents were born in Mátészalka.
* ]; born Jewish as Szidónia Silberspitz
* ]
* ], born in Budapest, Hungary
* ]
* ]
* ]'s father was born in Hungary
* ]
* ] born in Budapest, Hungary
* ]
* ] (mother Jewish)
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ] (father Jewish)
* ]
* ] (father Jewish)
* ]

===Directors, screenwriters, and industry===
* ], film director<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adherents.com/movies/FilmAFI100.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119105740/http://www.adherents.com/movies/FilmAFI100.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=November 19, 2005 |title=Religious Affiliation of Directors of AFI's Top 100 Movies |publisher=Adherents.com |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* ], born Manó Kertész Kaminer, film director

* ], film director and screenwriter<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Plotkin |first=Janis |url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/filmmakers-independent-european |title=Filmmakers, Independent European |encyclopedia=Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* ], producer and founder of Fox Film Studios; his name has been perpetuated in later film/broadcasting companies, born ''Fried Vilmos''

* ] film director<ref name="YIVO">Hoberman, J. . ''The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe''. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* ], film editor and director<ref name="YIVO" />
* ]
* ], born Sándor László Kellner, brother of Vincent and Zoltan Korda, film producer and director<ref name="The Jewish Chronicle pp. 28">"Variety Club-Jewish Chronicle colour supplement: 350 years". ''The Jewish Chronicle''. December 15, 2006. pp. 28–29.</ref>
* ], born Vincent Kellner, brother of Alexander and Zoltan Korda, art director<ref name="The Jewish Chronicle pp. 28" />
* ], born Zoltán Kellner, brother of Alexander and Vincent Korda, film screenwriter, director, and producer<ref name="The Jewish Chronicle pp. 28" />
* ], film director (mother Jewish)
* ]'s father was born in Hungary, as was his Catholic mother
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ], film director, screenwriter, and opera director<ref>] (January 24, 2008). . KinoKultura.</ref>
* ] film director<ref name="YIVO" />
* ], film director
* ]
* ]'s father was born in Hungary
* ], founder of Paramount Pictures

==Historians==
{{colbegin}}
* ], historian<ref>], art. ''Historians''</ref>{{full citation needed|date=May 2013}}
* ], linguist
* ], historian (Roman Catholic, with a Jewish mother)<ref>{{cite news |last=Heer |first=Jeet |url=http://www.jeetheer.com/politics/lukacs.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507104241/http://www.jeetheer.com/politics/lukacs.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=May 7, 2006 |title=John Lukacs: The historian as anti-populist |work=Boston Globe |date=March 6, 2005}}</ref>
* ], historian<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/spiritofthings/providential-accidents/3558720 |title=Providential Accidents |work=The Spirit of Things |publisher=ABC |date=August 29, 1999}}</ref>
{{colend}}

==Inventors and scientists==
* ], inventor and innovator in the field of food technology
* ], inventor of the ballpoint pen
* ] architect
* ], inventor of the holography
* ], inventor of the stencil duplicator<ref>Oxford ]: "He was a devout Jew".</ref>{{full citation needed|date=May 2013}}
* ], inventor of long-playing (LP) records
* András Gróf (]), pioneer of the semiconductor industry, CEO of Intel
* ] of ]
* ], pharmaceuticals; inventor and industrialist
* ], nuclear chemist and contributor to the ]
* ], inventor of the ]<ref>'']''</ref>{{full citation needed|date=May 2013}}
* ],<ref>. Jinfo.org. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref> biochemist
* ] (Wigner Jenő), physicist and Nobel laureate (parents were Lutheran by religion)<ref>Meijer, Paul H. E. (ed.) (2000). ''Views of a Physicist: Selected papers of N.G. Van Kampen''. World Scientific. p. 233. {{ISBN|9789810243579}}.</ref>
* ] (Hungarian-American) the "father" of modern surface-chemistry, leading world-expert on heterogeneous catalysis by metal surfaces

===Nobel Prize winners===
* ] (1914) - Medicine
* György Hevesy (]) (1943) - Chemistry (born Roman Catholic)
* Jenő Wigner (]) (1963) - Physics (Lutheran convert)
* Dénes Gábor (]) (1971) - Physics (Lutheran convert)
* ] (1976) - Economics
* János Polányi (]) (1986) - Chemistry (born Roman Catholic)<ref>. Jinfo.org. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* ] (1986-2016) - Peace
* János Harsányi (]) (1994) - Economics (born Roman Catholic)
* ] (2002) - Literature
* Ferenc Herskó (]) (2004) - Chemistry

===Physicists===
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]

===Social scientists===
* ], economist<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1393262/Lord-Bauer.html |title=Lord Bauer |work=The Telegraph |date=May 6, 2002}}</ref>
* ], his parents emigrated from ], then in Hungary.
* ], sociologist<ref>, 7 October 2013</ref>
* ], economist, ]; Nobel laureate (born Roman Catholic, from a Jewish background)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html |title=Jewish Biographies: Nobel Prize Laureates |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* ], British economist
* ], economist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html |title=Jewish Economists |publisher=Jinfo.org |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* ] (1840–1899), educationist and orientalist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9735-leitner-gottlieb-william |title=Leitner, Gottlieb William |encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref><ref>Oxford ]: "registered with the Jewish community of Pest".</ref>{{full citation needed|date=May 2013}}
* ] sociologist,
* ], Hebraist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11456-neubauer-adolf |title=Neubauer, Adolf |encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* ], economist and philosopher
* ] psychologist, developed economic psychology

==Mathematicians==
{{colbegin}}
* ]<ref name=maths>{{cite web |url=http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html |title=Jewish Mathematicians |publisher=Jinfo.org |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref> (ethnically Jewish through mother)
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.math.technion.ac.il/hat/people/obits/grunwald.html |title=The life and mathematics of Géza Grünwald |publisher=Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* Kornél Lőwy (])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Lanczos.html |title=Cornelius Lanczos |publisher=University of St. Andrews, Scotland |accessdate=May 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210055608/http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Lanczos.html |archive-date=February 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* ]
* ] (Roman Catholic convert)
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tibor |first=Frank |url=http://www.kfki.hu/%7Echeminfo/polanyi/9702/frank2.html |title=George Pólya and the Heuristic Tradition: Fascination with Genius in Central Europe |journal=Polanyiana |volume=6 |issue=2 |date=1997}}</ref>
* ]<ref name=maths/>
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Volkmann |first=Bodo |url=http://www.boku.ac.at/MATH/udt/vol03/no1/P-S-death08.pdf |title=On the death of Peter Szüsz |journal=Uniform Distribution Theory |volume=3 |issue=1 |year=2008 |pages=149–151}}</ref>
* ]
* ]<ref name=maths/>
* ]
{{colend}}

==Music==
===Composers===

* ]
* ]
* ]
* ], composer, educator
* Imre Kálmán (])
* ] (half Jewish)
* ], composer
* ]
* ], composer
* ]
* ], composer, educator
* ], composer
* ], composer
* ], composer, virtuoso cellist

===Conductors===

* ]
* ]
* ] (half Jewish through mother)
* ], composer, musicologist, choir master
* ]
* Jenő Ormándy (])
* ]
* ]
* György Széll (])

===Musicians===
{{colbegin}}
* ], pianist, composer
* ], conductor
* ], pianist
* Endre Granat, violinist
* ], conductor
* ], pianist<ref>] (2007). ''Lost Genius''. Canada: ]. {{ISBN|978-0-7710-1100-9}}.</ref> (half Jewish through mother)
* ], violinist
* ], drummer for ] (born Erdélyi Tamás)
* ], conductor
* ], violist
* ], cellist
* ], conductor
* ], guitar, Dire Straits,
{{colend}}

===Performers of music===

* ] - voice, soprano & actress
* ] - piano (half Jewish)
* ] - violin
* ] - piano
* ] - violin
* ] - violin
* ] - violin
* ] - voice, bass
* ] - violin
* ] - violin
* ] - piano
* ] - piano
* ] - violoncello
* ] - voice, bass
* ] - violin

==Psychoanalysts==
{{colbegin}}
* ], psychoanalyst<ref>. Whonamedit? Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* ], psychoanalyst.
* ], psychoanalyst.
* ]
* ], psychiatrist
* ], psychiatrist
{{colend}}

==Religious figures==

:''See'' '']''

==Writers==
{{colbegin|colwidth=}}
* ], poet & film critic<ref>Honti, Rita (2006). {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171148/http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/taite/vk/honti/principl.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }}. University of Helsinki. p. 100. "...German on his mother's side and Jewish on his father's..."</ref><ref>'']'', art. Balazs, Bela</ref>{{full citation needed|date=May 2013}}
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ].
* ]<ref>{{cite journal |last=László |first=Kiss |url=http://www.akademiai.com/content/7434465108481750/fulltext.pdf?page=1 |title=Utazás a feleségem körül – Karinthyné dr. Böhm Aranka (1893–1944) |journal=Orvosi Hetilap |publisher=Akadémiai Kiadó |volume=152 |issue=28 |date=July 2011 |pages=1137–1139 |language=Hungarian |doi=10.1556/oh.2011.ho2351 |pmid=21712176 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* ], winner, Nobel Prize in Literature (2002)
* ], novelist & critic<ref>{{cite news |last=Mazower |first=Mark |date=January 2, 2000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/02/reviews/000102.02mazowet.html |title=A Tormented Life |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
* ]
* ], dramatist
* ], Marxist literary critic and philosopher.
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* {{interlanguage link|Endre Nagy|wd=Q1214122}}, creator of Hungarian cabaret
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ], poet
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ], born as Ferenc Hoffmann, Hungarian-Israeli writer, satirist, and film director.
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ], writer, Nobel Peace Prize (1986)<ref>. Nobelprize.org. Retrieved May 9, 2013.</ref>
* ] writer of Kilenc Koffer
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==Families ennobled between 1874 and 1918 (mainly industrialists)==
{{colbegin}}
* Biedermann – 1902
* Dirsztay – 1905
* Engel – 1879
* Groedl – 1900
* Gutmann – 1905
* Harkányi – 1904
* Hatvany – 1917
* Hatvany-Deutsch – 1895
* Hazai – 1912
* Herczel – 1912
* Herzog – 1904
* Kohner – 1904
* Korányi – 1912
* Kornfeld – 1908
* Königswarter – 1897
* Kuffner – 1904
* Lévay – 1897
* Madarassy-Beck – 1906
* Nauman – 1906
* Ohrenstein – 1913
* Orosdy – 1905
* Posner Karl
* Schosberger – 1890
* Tornyai-Schosberger – 1905
* Ulmann – 1918
* Weiss – 1918
* Wodianer – 1874
* Wolfner – 1918<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mek.niif.hu/04000/04093/html/tematikus2.html |title=Magyar Zsidó Lexikon |publisher=Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár |accessdate=May 9, 2013}}</ref>
{{colend}}


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This is a list of Hungarian Jews. There has been a Jewish presence in today's Hungary since Roman times (bar a brief expulsion during the Black Death), long before the actual Hungarian nation. 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 descendants of Hungarian émigrés born in America, a significant number of whom are of Jewish ancestry.

The names are presented in the Western European convention of the given name preceding the family name, whereas in Hungary, the reverse is true, as in most Asian cultures.

Historical figures

Theodor Herzl

Athletes

Boxing

György Gedó

Canoeing

  • László Fábián, sprint canoer, Olympic champion (K-2 10,000 meter), 4x world champion (3x K-2 10,000 meter and 1x K-4 10,000 meter) and one silver (K-4 10,000 meter)
  • Imre Farkas, sprint canoer, 2x Olympic bronze (C-2 1,000 and 10,000 meter)
  • Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, sprint canoer, Olympic bronze (K-2 500 m), world champion (K-2 500 m)
  • Anna Pfeffer, sprint canoer, Olympic 2x silver (K-2 500 m), bronze (K-1 500 m); world champion (K-2 500 m), silver (K-4 500 m), 2x bronze (K-2 500)

Fencing

Jenő Fuchs
Attila Petschauer
  • Péter Bakonyi (born "Buchwald", 1938), saber, Olympic 3x bronze
  • Ilona Elek (née "Schacherer"; 1907–1988), foil fencer; Olympic gold-medal winner, and world champion, both before and after World War II
  • Dr. Dezső Földes (1880–1950), saber, 2x Olympic champion
  • Dr. Jenő Fuchs (1882–1955), saber, 4x Olympic champion
  • Tamás Gábor (1932–2007), épée, Olympic champion
  • János Garay (1889–1945), saber, Olympic champion, silver, bronze, killed by the Nazis
  • Dr. Oskar Gerde (1883–1944), saber, 2x Olympic champion, killed by the Nazis
  • Dr. Sándor Gombos (1895–1968), saber, Olympic champion
  • Endre Kabos (1906–1944), saber, 3x Olympic champion, bronze, killed while performing forced labour for the Nazis
  • Attila Petschauer (1904–1943), saber, 2x team Olympic champion, silver, killed by the Nazis
  • Zoltán Ozoray Schenker (1880–1966), Hungarian Olympic champion saber fencer
  • Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő (born 1937), foil, 2x Olympic champion
  • Lajos Werkner (1883–1943), saber, 2x Olympic champion
  • George Worth, born György Woittitz (1915–2006), Hungarian-born American Olympic medalist fencer

Figure skating

Gymnastics

  • Samu Fóti, Olympic silver (team combined exercises)
  • Imre Gellért, Olympic silver (team combined exercises)
  • Ágnes Keleti, 5-time Olympic champion (2-time floor exercises, asymmetrical bars, floor exercises, balance beam, team exercise with portable apparatus), 3-time silver (2-time team combined exercises, individual combined exercises), 2x bronze (asymmetrical bars, team exercises with portable apparatus), International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
  • Alice Kertész, Olympic champion (team, portable apparatus), silver (team); world silver (team)

Soccer (association football)

  • Gyula Bíró, midfielder/forward (national team)
  • Alfréd Brüll, first owner of MTK Budapest FC
  • Peter Fuzes, born in Hungary; soccer goalkeeper for Sydney Hakoah club and Australia, Maccabi Hall of Fame 2003. Played 1st grade 1964 till 1976; International career from 1966 to 1972, against Scotland 1967, Greece 1969, Israel 1969 & 1972. Played against various European club sides including AS ROMA 1966, Manchester United.
  • Sándor Geller, goalkeeper, Olympic champion
  • Béla Guttmann, midfielder, national team player, and international coach
  • Adolf Kertész, Hungarian international
  • Gyula Kertész (1888–1982), Hungarian international
  • Vilmos Kertész (1890–1962), Hungarian international
  • Gyula Mándi, half back (player & coach of Hungarian and Israeli national teams) and manager
  • Árpád Orbán, Olympic champion

Swimming

Alfréd Hajós
András Székely
  • Andrea Gyarmati, Olympic silver (100-m backstroke) and bronze (100-m butterfly); world championships bronze (200-m backstroke), International Swimming Hall of Fame (both parents half-Jewish)
  • Alfréd Hajós (born "Arnold Guttmann"), 3x Olympic champion (100-m freestyle, 800-m freestyle relay, 1,500-m freestyle), International Swimming Hall of Fame
  • Michael "Miki" Halika, Israel, 200-m butterfly, 200- and 400-m individual medley
  • József Munk, Olympic silver (4x200-m freestyle relay)
  • Rebecca Soni, her grandfather was born in Nagyvárad (now Oradea)
  • Mark Spitz, his great-grandfather (Nathan) was born in Hungary
  • László Szabados, Olympic bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay)
  • András Székely, Olympic silver (200-m breaststroke) and bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay); died in a Nazi concentration camp
  • Éva Székely, Olympic champion & silver (200-m breaststroke); International Swimming Hall of Fame; mother of Andrea Gyarmati (mother Jewish, father Roman Catholic szekler)
  • Judit Temes, Olympic champion (4×100-m freestyle), bronze (100-m freestyle)
  • Imre Zachár, Olympic silver (4x200-m freestyle relay)

Table tennis

Tennis

Track and field

Water polo

Wrestling

  • Károly Kárpáti (also "Károly Kellner"), Olympic champion (freestyle lightweight), silver

Other sports

  • Paul Havas, Columbia quarterback
  • Ferenc Kemény, co-founder and first secretary of the IOC
  • László Bartók, Rowing (Paris 1924 eight and coxed four, Amsterdam 1928 coxed four) and 1932 men's coxless four European Rowing Champion

Olympic gold medalists at the Summer Games

Period 1896-1912 1924-1936 1948-1956 1960-1972 1976-1992 (1984 excluded) 1996-2008
# of Olympics 5 4 3 4 4 4
Total Golds 442 482 440 684 903 1172
Hungarian Golds 11 22 35 32 33 26
Hungarian/total World 2.49% 4.56% 7.95% 4.68% 3.65% 2.22%
Hungarian Individual Gold 9 17 26 22 27 16
Hungarian Jewish Individual 5 3 6 4 0 0
Jewish/total individual Hungarian 55.56% 17.65% 23.08% 18.18% 0% 0%
Jews in Gold Teams 57.14% = 8/14 28.21%= 11/39
Jews in population 5.0% (1910) 5.12% (1930) 1.45% (1949) 0.13% (2001)

Before the Holocaust

Hungarian Jews, while comprising some 5% of the population of Hungary, won 8 individual gold medals for Hungary out of 26 (30.8%) in the Olympic sports events between 1896 and 1936. In each of the 7 gold winning teams, there were Hungarian Jews making up 35.8% of the teams (19 out of 53 team members).

1896

  • Alfréd Hajós-Guttman (2) swimming, 100-meter freestyle, 1,500-meter freestyle

1906

  • Alfréd Hajós-Guttman, swimming, 800-meter freestyle relay

1908

  • Dezső Földes, fencing, team saber
  • Dr.Jenő Fuchs (2), fencing, individual saber, team saber
  • Dr. Oszkár Gerde, fencing, team saber
  • Lajos Werkner, fencing, team saber
  • Richard Weisz, Greco-Roman wrestling, heavyweight

1912

  • Dezső Földes, fencing, team saber
  • Dr. Jenő Fuchs (2), fencing, individual saber, team saber
  • Dr. Oszkár Gerde, fencing, team saber
  • Lajos Werkner, fencing, team saber

1924

  • Alfred Hajós, Olympic art competition, architecture
  • Gyula Halasy, Gold Medal, Individual Trap Competition

1928

  • János Garay, fencing, team saber
  • Dr. Sándor Gombos, fencing, team saber
  • Attila Petschauer, fencing, team saber
  • Dr. Ferenc Mező, Olympic art competition, epic works

1932

  • István Barta, water polo
  • György Brody, water polo
  • Miklós Sárkány, water polo
  • Endre Kabos, fencing, team saber
  • Attila Petschauer, fencing, team saber

1936

  • György Bródy, water polo
  • Miklos Sárkány, water polo
  • Endre Kabos (2), fencing, individual saber, team saber
  • Ilona Elek, individual foil
  • Károly Kárpáti, freestyle wrestling, lightweight

After the Holocaust, 1948-1972

After the Holocaust, less than 1% of the population of Hungary remained of Jewish heritage. In individual sports events, Hungary won 48 gold medals between 1948 and 1972. Sportsmen and mainly sportswomen of Jewish extraction won 10 gold medals (20.8%). Hungarian Jewish women won 7 gold medals out of the 15 individual gold medals won by Hungarian women. In the 19 gold medal-winning teams for Hungary, 9 had Jewish members.

There are no known Hungarian Jewish gold medalist since 1976. Overall, Hungarian Jews won 15.4% of the 117 individual gold medals of Hungary, and had part in at least 16 out of the 42 gold medals in team events.

1948

  • Ilona Elek, individual foil

1952

  • Robert Antal, water polo
  • Sándor Gellér, soccer
  • Ágnes Keleti, gymnastics, floor exercises
  • Éva Székely, swimming, 200-meter breaststroke

1956

  • Ágnes Keleti (4)
    • gymnastics, asymmetrical bars, floor exercises, balance beam,
    • team exercise with portable apparatus
  • Aliz Kertész, gymnastics, team exercise with portable apparatus
  • László Fábián, kayak pairs, 10,000-meters

1960

  • Gyula Török, boxing, flyweight

1964

  • Tamás Gábor, fencing, team épée
  • Ildikó Rejtő (2), fencing, individual and team foil
  • Árpád Orbán, soccer

1968

  • Mihály Hesz, kayak, K1 1000m

1972

  • Gyorgy Gedó, boxing, light flyweight

Artists

Robert Capa
Nickolas Muray

Business

Businessmen

George Soros

Industrialists and bankers

Chess players

Judit Polgár
Susan Polgar

Film and stage

Actors

Hedy Lamarr
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Directors, screenwriters, and industry

  • Judit Elek, film director and screenwriter
  • William Fox, producer and founder of Fox Film Studios; his name has been perpetuated in later film/broadcasting companies, born Fried Vilmos

Historians

Inventors and scientists

Nobel Prize winners

Physicists

Social scientists

Mathematicians

Music

Composers

Conductors

Musicians

Performers of music

Psychoanalysts

Religious figures

See Hungarian-Jewish Religious Figures

Writers

Families ennobled between 1874 and 1918 (mainly industrialists)

  • Biedermann – 1902
  • Dirsztay – 1905
  • Engel – 1879
  • Groedl – 1900
  • Gutmann – 1905
  • Harkányi – 1904
  • Hatvany – 1917
  • Hatvany-Deutsch – 1895
  • Hazai – 1912
  • Herczel – 1912
  • Herzog – 1904
  • Kohner – 1904
  • Korányi – 1912
  • Kornfeld – 1908
  • Königswarter – 1897
  • Kuffner – 1904
  • Lévay – 1897
  • Madarassy-Beck – 1906
  • Nauman – 1906
  • Ohrenstein – 1913
  • Orosdy – 1905
  • Posner Karl
  • Schosberger – 1890
  • Tornyai-Schosberger – 1905
  • Ulmann – 1918
  • Weiss – 1918
  • Wodianer – 1874
  • Wolfner – 1918

See also

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