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Farkas
Farkas ("Wolf" in Hungarian) is a Hungarian surname and a given name. In Czech and Slovak languages it is rendered as Farkaš. List of persons with the surname * Alexander S. Farkas, former executive of Alexander's, an American department store founded by his father * Andrea Farkas, Hungarian handball goalkeeper *Andrew Farkas, American writer * Andy Farkas, former American football player * Balázs Farkas, Hungarian footballer * Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space * Brian Farkas, former member of North Carolina House of Representatives * David Farkas, American actor, lead singer of Farkas * Dénes Farkas, Dénes Farkas de Boldogfa (1884–1973), landowner, politician, member of the Hungarian Parliament * Evelyn Farkas, American intelligence analyst * Ferenc Farkas de Boldogfa (1713–1770), jurist, landowner, vice-ispán of the county of Zala (''alispán of Zala'') * Ferenc Farkas, Hungarian composer * Kisbarnaki Ferenc Farkas, Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertalan Farkas
Bertalan Farkas (born August 2, 1949) is the first Hungarian cosmonaut, space explorer and fighter pilot. Hungary became the seventh nation to be represented in space by him. Farkas is also the first Esperantist cosmonaut. He is currently the president of Airlines Service and Trade. Following his mission, Hungarian-American Károly Simonyi (Charles Simonyi) was the second Hungarian astronaut – the only person in the entire world who has been twice in space as a space tourist and who had paid for himself for the spaceflights. The next Hungarian astronaut will travel to the International Space Station by 2025. Early life and military career Born in Gyulaháza, he graduated from the György Kilián Aeronautical College in Szolnok in 1969. He then attended the Krasnodar Military Aviation Institute in the Soviet Union, from where he graduated in 1972. After earning his qualifications at university, Farkas joined the Hungarian Air Force and rose to the rank of Brigadier General. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary has a population of nearly 9 million, mostly ethnic Hungarians and a significant Romani minority. Hungarian, the official language, is the world's most widely spoken Uralic language and among the few non-Indo-European languages widely spoken in Europe. Budapest is the country's capital and largest city; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs, and Győr. The territory of present-day Hungary has for centuries been a crossroads for various peoples, including Celts, Romans, Germanic tribes, Huns, West Slavs and the Avars. The foundation of the Hungarian state was established in the late 9th century AD with the conquest of the Carpathian Basin by Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Györgyi Farkas
Györgyi may refer to: *Albert Szent-Györgyi Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt ( hu, nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert Imre; September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with fi ... (1893–1986), Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 * Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, originally established in Kolozsvár, Transylvania, in 1872 * Dénes Györgyi (1886–1961), Hungarian architect, a member of the Györgyi-Giergl artistic family * Györgyi Balogh (born 1948), Hungarian former sprinter * Györgyi Farkas (born 1985), Hungarian heptathlete See also * György, a given name {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibor Farkas
Dr. Tibor Farkas de Boldogfa (14 April 1883 – 26 March 1940) jurist, Hungarian nobleman, landowner, politician, member of the Hungarian Parliament, Hussar Captain. He was a respected Hungarian legitimist politician during the two World Wars period. Life Tibor József Imre Farkas de Boldogfa was born in Felsőbagod in the county of Zala, Kingdom of Hungary, as the member of the ancient Roman Catholic Hungarian noble family Farkas de Boldogfa (in Hungarian: ''boldogfai Farkas család''). His father was József Farkas de Boldogfa (1857–1951) landowner, politician, Member of the Hungarian Parliament, and his mother was Rozália Sümeghy de Lovász et Szentmargitha (1857–1924). His father József Farkas de Boldogfa was very active in the Hungarian politics since the 1890s, working along with count Aladár Zichy, and count Nándor Zichy within the newly created Hungarian Katolikus Néppárt (''Catholic People's Party''). Tibor Farkas de Boldogfa's paternal grandparents were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen I at Esztergom around the year 1000;Kristó Gyula – Barta János – Gergely Jenő: Magyarország története előidőktől 2000-ig (History of Hungary from the prehistory to 2000), Pannonica Kiadó, Budapest, 2002, , p. 687, pp. 37, pp. 113 ("Magyarország a 12. század második felére jelentős európai tényezővé, középhatalommá vált."/"By the 12th century Hungary became an important European factor, became a middle power.", "A Nyugat részévé vált Magyarország.../Hungary became part of the West"), pp. 616–644 his family (the Árpád dynasty) led the monarchy for 300 years. By the 12th century, the kingdom became a European middle power within the Western world. Due to the Ottoman occupation of the central and south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sándor Farkas De Boldogfa
Vitéz Sándor Farkas de Boldogfa (16 September 1880 – 11 January 1946) was a Hungarian nobleman, colonel of the Kingdom of Hungary, captain of the Order of Vitéz of the county of Zala. He was knight of the Order of the Austrian Iron Crown. Life Born in Andráshida, county of Zala, in the former Kingdom of Hungary, Sándor József, was a member of the ancient Roman Catholic Hungarian noble family Farkas de Boldogfa (in Hungarian: ''boldogfai Farkas'' család) that originally hailed from the land of Zalaboldogfa. He was son of Ferenc Farkas de Boldogfa (1838–1908), landowner, Zala county auditor and monetary comptroller of the county, and Zsófia Marton de Nemesnép (1842–1900). His paternal grandparents were Ferenc Farkas de Boldogfa (1779-1844), judge, landowner, and Borbála Joó (1817-1881). His maternal grandparents were the Hungarian nobleman József Marton de Nemesnép (1797-1858), deputy-noble judge ( Hungarian: ''alszolgabíró''), jurist, landowner in Zala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Farkas
Sam Farkas (May 15, 1917August 13, 2006) was a bookmaker and bodyguard, best known for his criminal affiliation with Mickey Cohen. A mobster of 20th-century California, Farkas was indicted by a U.S. federal government organized-crime task force on multiple criminal charges in 1974. Biography Farkas was described as Cohen's bodyguard in 1950 when he, Cohen, and one Dominic "Highpockets" Faranacci attended the funeral of Cohen's murdered lawyer, Sam Rummel. In 1951, Farkas was one of the "gangland figures" connected to the brothel of Hollywood madam Barrie Benson. A man named Joe DiStefano, reportedly visiting from New York, tried to shoot Farkas in 1952. In 1959, Farkas married Cohen's ex-wife, La Vonne Cohen. At some point in the 1960s, Farkas and his wife lived in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood, and his next-door neighbor later recalled that "he always wore a sport coat to hide the gun I occasionally glimpsed in the holster just under his left arm". The couple moved ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Farkas
Philip Farkas (March 5, 1914 – December 21, 1992) was the principal French horn player in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for many years, and he left in 1960 to join the music faculty at Indiana University Bloomington. His books include ''The Art of French Horn Playing'' (considered the field's seminal work), ''The Art of Brass Playing'', ''The Art of Musicianship'', and ''A Photo Study of 40 Virtuoso Horn Players' Embouchures''. Nancy Jordan Fako wrote his biography, ''Philip Farkas and His Horn - A Happy, Worthwhile Life''. Later in his life he helped design the Holton Farkas horn. Life Farkas was born on March 5, 1914 in Chicago to Anna Cassidy Farkas and Emil Nelson Farkas. March 5 is called the Horn Duumvirate Date, as it is the birth date of both Farkas and Barry Tuckwell, two great horn players of the 20th century. His parents were ignorant about music, but his mother encouraged him to take piano lessons as his introduction to music. Around the age of twelve his Boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihály Farkas
Mihály Farkas (born Hermann Lőwy; 18 July 1904 – 6 December 1965) was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Minister of National Defense of the Hungarian People's Republic. Biography He was born in 1904 in Abaújszántó to Jewish parents, in the Abaúj-Torna County of the Kingdom of Hungary, and became a Communist in the 1920s. He lived in Košice and Prague then. He fought in the Spanish Civil War; later he moved to the Soviet Union. He returned to Hungary in late 1944 alongside other Hungarian communists and became a member of the Central Committee, the Political Committee and the Secretariat of the Hungarian Communist Party from May 1945. In 1945 he became under-secretary of Home Affairs. In 1946 he was elected deputy secretary and became the chairman of the party's Management Committee. He was Minister of National Defence from 9 September 1948 to 2 July 1953. He was one of the main instigators during the Rákosi era. In 1956 he was expelled from the part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Farkas
Leonardo Julio Farkas Klein (born March 20, 1967) is a Chilean businessman. Early years Farkas's parents were Jews of Hungarian descent who emigrated from Transylvania to South America in 1939. Farkas studied business administration at the University of Santiago, Chile. In the 1980s, he emigrated to the United States and made a living working in show business as a piano player while traveling throughout the country. He also worked in several Caribbean cruising companies until the death of his father. Farkas then returned to Chile to manage the family business. He has stakes in several industries, the mining sector being the most important. Consideration of presidential candidacy In October 2008 Farkas announced that he was considering being an independent candidate for the presidential election of 2009. Initially, he declined to comment on the issue. However, on December 5, he announced he would not be running. Philanthropy Farkas is widely known in Chile by his appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katalin Farkas (soprano)
Katalin Farkas (born January 5, 1954, Budapest) is a Hungarian opera singer, soprano. Since 1982 she is with the Budapest National Opera.FARKAS KATALIN BMC's Artist Database MAGYAR SZÍNHÁZMŰVÉSZETI LEXIKON She studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, opera department, graduated in 1982. Before that she learned to play piano and flute. She made guest performances in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Spain. Recordings Her recordings are with[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katalin Farkas
Katalin is a feminine given name and is a Hungarian variant from Catherine. Notable people with the name include: * Katalin Bánffy Hungarian noblewoman * Kata Bethlen (1700–1759) Hungarian writer, sometimes known in English as Katherine Bethlen * Katalin Bogyay (born 1956) President of the General Conference of UNESCO * Katalin Cseh (born 1988) Canadian-born Hungarian physician and politician * Katalin Csőke (1957–2017) Hungarian discus thrower * Katalin Divós (born 1974) Hungarian female hammer thrower * Katalin Eichler-Schadek (born 1940) Hungarian volleyball player * Katalin Juhász (born 1932) Olympic gold medalist of Hungary * Katalin Karády (1910-1990) as a Hungarian actress and singer * Katalin Kariko (born 1955) Hungarian scientist who, with Drew Weissman, developed the technology behind the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines * Katalin Kovács (born 1976) Olympic medalist of Hungary * Katalin Laki (born 1948) Hungarian handball player * Katalin Lévai (born 1954) Hungaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
