- Source: List of Hungarian Jews
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
Leó Frankel, one of the leaders of the Paris Commune
Gyula Germanus, islamologist, (non-Jewish mother, Jewish father)
Ignác Goldziher, islamologist
Tivadar Herzl (Theodor Herzl), spiritual founder of Israel
Béla Kun, de facto leader of Hungary for 4 months in 1919 (non-Jewish mother, Jewish father)
Max Nordau, co-founder of the World Zionist Organization
Tom Lantos
György Lukács
Trebitsch Lincoln, British adventurer
Georges Politzer
Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher
Sándor Radó (Alexander Radó) Switzerland-based Soviet master spy in World War II
Mátyás Rákosi, de facto leader of Hungary, 1947–1956
Ervin Szabó director of the Budapest Public Library System, 1911–1918
Tibor Szamuely, politician
Ármin Vámbéry, orientalist and traveler
Vilmos Vázsonyi, first Jewish Justice minister of Hungary, 1917–1918
Félix Somló, legal scholar known for his contributions to the Hungarian Legal Philosophy, 1873–1920
Athletes
= Boxing
=György Gedó, Olympic champion light flyweight
= 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
=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
=Lily Kronberger, World Championship 4x gold, 2x bronze, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame
Emília Rotter, pair skater, World Championship 4x gold, silver, 2x Olympic bronze
László Szollás, pair skater, World Championship gold, silver, 2x Olympic bronze
= 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
=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
=Viktor Barna (born "Győző Braun"), 22-time world champion, International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame ("ITTFHoF")
Laszlo Bellak, 7-time world champion, ITTFHoF
Anna Sipos, 11-time world champion, ITTFHoF
Miklós Szabados, 15-time world champion
Tibor Hazi
Magda Gal
= Tennis
=Zsuzsa Körmöczy, won 1958 French Open Singles, world # 2.
= Track and field
=Ödön Bodor, Olympic bronze (medley relay)
Ibolya Csák, Olympic champion & European champion high jumper
Mór Kóczán, javelin, Olympic bronze (Calvinist priest)
= Water polo
=Robert Antal, Olympic champion
István Barta, Olympic champion, gold
György Bródy, (3g1b & 2g & 2g), goalkeeper, 2-time Olympic champion
Dezső Gyarmati, Olympic water polo player & captain (3g1s1b) (half Jewish)
György Kárpáti, 3-time Olympic champion, 1 time bronze (half Jewish)
Béla Komjádi water polo player and coach, International Swimming Hall of Fame
Mihály Mayer, 2-time Olympic champion, 2-time bronze
Miklós Sárkány, 2-time Olympic champion
Iván Somlai, 1976 Olympic Assistant Coach and Game Plan Manager of Team Canada
= 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
= 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
Imre Ámos, painter, born 1907 in Nagykálló, killed during the Holocaust
Robert Capa, photographer
Béla Czóbel
Adolf Fényes
André François, painter and graphic artist (Jewish father)
György Goldmann, sculptor
Lucien Hervé, born Laszlo Elkan, photographer, known best for his architectural photographs, particularly those associated with Le Corbusier.
Béla Iványi-Grünwald
André Kertész, born Andor Kertész, photographer, photo-essayist
Ervin Marton
George Mayer-Marton, born Gyorgy Mayer, artist
László Moholy-Nagy
Nickolas Muray, photographer, born Miklós Mandl, Szeged HU, 1892-1965 New York City, and Olympic fencer. Known for his advances in commercial photography, most notably the first use of color film.
Izsák Perlmutter
Kermit (Wayne) Weinberger, artist, designer, famous for his Las Vegas neon creations. Born to Jewish Hungarian parents.
Business
= Businessmen
=Jim Breyer, venture capitalist
Leo Castelli, Trieste-born American art dealer of note.
Andrew Grove, one of the founders and the CEO of Intel
Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch
Paul Reichmann's parents were born in Hungary
Tibor Rosenbaum, rabbi and businessman
George Soros, Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist
Sholam Weiss, bankruptcy specialist
= Industrialists and bankers
=Móric Fischer de Farkasházy, founder the Herend Porcelain Manufactory in 1839
Leó Lánczy
Jenő Vida
Ferenc Chorin
Ferenc Chorin Jr
Fülöp Weisz
Gedeon Richter
Chess players
Rudolph Charousek
Isidor Gunsberg
Ignatz von Kolisch
Andor Lilienthal
Johann Löwenthal
Judit Polgár
Susan Polgár
Zsófia Polgár
Richard Réti
Adolf Schwarz
Endre Steiner
Herman Steiner
Lajos Steiner
László Szabó
Film and stage
= Actors
=Gábor Baraker
Jerry Seinfeld (paternal side)
Eva Bartok (father Jewish, born Szöke)
Tony Curtis; his parents were born in Mátészalka.
Franciska Gaal; born Jewish as Szidónia Silberspitz
Miklós Gábor
Zsa Zsa Gabor, born in Budapest, Hungary
Dezső Garas
Gyula Gózon
Leslie Howard's father was born in Hungary
Gyula Kabos
Harry Houdini born in Budapest, Hungary
Hedy Lamarr
Kálmán Latabár (mother Jewish)
Peter Lorre
László Márkus
Imre Ráday
Márton Rátkai
Sándor Radó
Sándor Rott
Kálmán Rózsahegyi
Eva Six (father Jewish)
Géza Steinhardt
Paul Newman (father Jewish)
Zoltán Várkonyi
= Directors, screenwriters, and industry
=George Cukor, film director
Michael Curtiz, born Manó Kertész Kaminer, film director
Judit Elek, film director and screenwriter
Béla Gaál film director
Viktor Gertler, film editor and director
Harry Houdini
Alexander Korda, born Sándor László Kellner, brother of Vincent and Zoltan Korda, film producer and director
Vincent Korda, born Vincent Kellner, brother of Alexander and Zoltan Korda, art director
Zoltán Korda, born Zoltán Kellner, brother of Alexander and Vincent Korda, film screenwriter, director, and producer
László Nemes, film director (mother Jewish)
Paul Newman's father was born in Hungary, as was his Catholic mother
Joe Pasternak
Emeric Pressburger
S. Z. Sakall
István Szabó, film director, screenwriter, and opera director
István Székely film director
János Szász, film director
Alexandre Trauner
Rachel Weisz's father was born in Hungary
Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures
Historians
Inventors and scientists
János Bodor, inventor and innovator in the field of food technology
László Bíró, inventor of the ballpoint pen
Marcel Breuer architect
Dennis Gabor, inventor of the holography
David Gestetner, inventor of the stencil duplicator
Peter Carl Goldmark, inventor of long-playing (LP) records
András Gróf (Andrew Grove), pioneer of the semiconductor industry, CEO of Intel
Rudolf E. Kálmán of Kalman filter
Gedeon Richter, pharmaceuticals; inventor and industrialist
Elizabeth Rona, nuclear chemist and contributor to the Manhattan Project
David Schwarz, inventor of the Zeppelin
Charles Weissmann, biochemist
Eugene Wigner (Wigner Jenő), physicist and Nobel laureate (parents were Lutheran by religion)
Gabor A. Somorjai (Hungarian-American) the "father" of modern surface-chemistry, leading world-expert on heterogeneous catalysis by metal surfaces
= Nobel Prize winners
=Robert Bárány (1914) - Medicine
György Hevesy (George de Hevesy) (1943) - Chemistry (born Roman Catholic)
Jenő Wigner (Eugene Wigner) (1963) - Physics (Lutheran convert)
Dénes Gábor (Dennis Gabor) (1971) - Physics (Lutheran convert)
Milton Friedman (1976) - Economics
János Polányi (John Charles Polanyi) (1986) - Chemistry (born Roman Catholic)
Elie Wiesel (1986-2016) - Peace
János Harsányi (John Harsanyi) (1994) - Economics (born Roman Catholic)
Imre Kertész (2002) - Literature
Ferenc Herskó (Avram Hershko) (2004) - Chemistry
= Physicists
=Dennis Gabor
Theodore von Kármán
John von Neumann
Paul Neményi
Leó Szilárd
Edward Teller
László Tisza
Eugene Wigner
= Social scientists
=Peter Thomas Bauer, economist
Milton Friedman, his parents emigrated from Beregszász, then in Hungary.
Frank Furedi, sociologist
John Harsanyi, economist, game theory; Nobel laureate (born Roman Catholic, from a Jewish background)
Nicholas Kaldor, British economist
János Kornai, economist
Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840–1899), educationist and orientalist
Karl Mannheim sociologist,
Adolf Neubauer, Hebraist
Karl Polanyi, economist and philosopher
George Katona psychologist, developed economic psychology
Mathematicians
Music
= Composers
=Pál Ábrahám
Károly Goldmark
Gábor Darvas
André Hajdu, composer, educator
Imre Kálmán (Emmerich Kálmán)
György Kurtág (half Jewish)
Sándor Kuti, composer
György Ligeti
Miklós Rózsa, composer
Rezső Seress
Sándor Vándor, composer, educator
László Weiner, composer
Leó Weiner, composer
Pál Hermann, composer, virtuoso cellist
= Conductors
=Ádám Fischer
Ivan Fischer
Ferenc Fricsay (half Jewish through mother)
György Justus, composer, musicologist, choir master
István Kertész
Jenő Ormándy (Eugene Ormandy)
Fritz Reiner
Sir Georg Solti
György Széll (George Szell)
= Musicians
== Performers of music
=Gitta Alpár - voice, soprano & actress
Geza Anda - piano (half Jewish)
Ilona Fehér - violin
Annie Fischer - piano
Joseph Joachim - violin
Endre Granat - violin
György Pauk - violin
László Polgár - voice, bass
Ede Reményi - violin
Márk Rózsavölgyi - violin
István Nádas - piano
András Schiff - piano
János Starker - violoncello
Mihály Székely - voice, bass
Joseph Szigeti - violin
Psychoanalysts
Religious figures
See Hungarian-Jewish Religious Figures
Writers
Families ennobled between 1874 and 1918 (mainly industrialists)
See also
List of Hungarians
History of the Jews in Hungary
References
= General references
=Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900888.
External links
Jewish Hungarians and Hungarian Jews
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Sinagoge Szeged
- Ferenc Szálasi
- Rezső Kasztner
- Holokaus
- Adolf Hitler
- Albert Einstein
- Agustinus dari Hippo
- Slowakia
- Berlin
- Daftar buku karya atau tentang Adolf Hitler
- List of Hungarian Jews
- List of East European Jews
- History of the Jews in Hungary
- List of Hungarians
- Lists of Jews
- List of Austrian Jews
- List of Asian Jews
- List of Canadian Jews
- Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust
- The Holocaust
