List of Hungarians - History and Politics

History and Politics

See also: List of mayors of Esztergom, List of mayors of Soltvadkert, List of heads of state of Hungary, List of Hungarian consorts, Members of the European Parliament for Hungary 2004–2009, Members of the European Parliament for Hungary 2009–2014, List of members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–present), List of Prime Ministers of Hungary, List of palatines of Hungary, and List of rulers of Hungary

• Albert Apponyi (1846–1933), statesman
• László Almásy (1895–1951), desert explorer, author, the inspiration for the fictionalised character of Almásy in the novel, The English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje
• Andrássy Gyula (1823–1890), statesman
• József Antall (1932–1993), Prime Minister of Hungary (1990–1993)
• Bakócz Tamás (1442–1521), archbishop, cardinal and statesman
• Baross Gábor (1848–1892), statesman
• George Soros (born 1930), stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist
• Báthory Erzsébet (1560–1614), "serial killer" countess
• Báthory István (Stephen Báthory):
  • Báthory István (1477–1534), Governor of Transylvania
  • Báthory István (1533–1586), Prince of Transylvania and King of Poland
• Báthory Zsigmond (1572–1613), Prince of Transylvania
• Ödön Beöthy (1796–1854), Hungarian deputy and orator
• Béla Bugár (born 1958), politician
• Pál Csáky (born 1956), politician
• Dessewffy Aurél (1808–1842), journalist and politician
• Ignaz Aurelius Fessler (1756–1839), court councillor and minister to Alexander I of Russia
• Hadik Andreas (1710–1790), Count
• Herzl Tivadar (1860–1904), journalist, modern Zionism
• Horthy Miklós (1868–1957), admiral and regent (1920–1944)
• I. István (Stephen I, Szent István, Stephanus Rex) (975–1038) first King of Hungary
• Catharina Anna Grandon de Hochepied
• Friar Julian
• János Kádár (1912–1989), communist leader
• Károly Róbert (Charles I) (1288–1342), King of Hungary (1308–1342)
• Károlyi Mihály (1875–1955), first President of Hungary (1919)
• Kossuth Lajos (1802–1894), Hungarian politician later Regent-President of Hungary
• Kollek Teddy (born Kollek Tivadar; 1911–2007), Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem
• Béla Kun (1886–1938), minister, revolutionist (1919)
• I. Lajos (Nagy Lajos) (Louis I) (1326–1382), king of Hungary (1342–1382)
• Mindszenty József (1892–1975), cardinal, convicted by communist government
• Nagy Imre (1896–1958), Prime Minister (1956)
• Rákosi Mátyás (1892–1971), General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party
• Szálasi Ferenc (1897–1946), head of Arrow Cross Party, Head of State, Prime Minister of Hungary (1944–1945)
• Count Széchenyi István (1791–1860)
• Istvan Tisza (1861–1918), Prime Minister of Hungary (1903–1905; 1913–1917)
• Toma András (Tamás András), Hungarian World War II prisoner who was found in a Russian mental hospital in the 1990s and returned to Hungary after 55 years
• Tőkés László (born 1952), ethnically Hungarian Calvinist pastor in Romania who helped trigger the Romanian Revolution of 1989 that overthrew Nicolae Ceauşescu in 1989
• Count Zrínyi Miklós (1508–1566), Hungarian general and hero who defended Szigetvár against Ottoman Turks
• Count Zrínyi Miklós (1620–1664), Hungarian general, statesman and poet
• János Zsámboky, humanist
• Tom Lantos (1928–2008), former U.S. Congressman from California

Cseh Sandor (living)