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Katona
Katona is a Hungarian surname meaning "soldier". People * Ervin Katona (born 1977), Serbian strongman competitor * Gábor Katona, retired Hungarian triple jumper * George Katona, Hungarian-born American psychologist * Gyula O. H. Katona, Hungarian mathematician * Gyula Y. Katona, Hungarian mathematician, son of Gyula O. H. Katona * Iggy Katona, American stock car racer * Jacqui Katona, environmental and cultural protection activist * József Katona, Hungarian playwright and poet * Kálmán Katona, Hungarian politician * Kerry Katona, TV presenter, writer, columnist and former pop singer * Nándor Katona, Hungarian-Slovak painter * Nisha Katona, MBE, British former barrister, now a celebrity chef and restaurateur * Péter Katona, member of the guitar duo Katona Twins * Sándor Katona, Hungarian glider aerobatic pilot * Sándor Katona, Hungarian association footballer * Tamás Katona, Hungarian politician, historian * Zoltán Katona, member of the guitar duo Katona Twins Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Katona
Kerry Jayne Elizabeth Katona (born 6 September 1980) is a British media personality and singer. She was a member of girl group Atomic Kitten from 1998 until her first departure in 2001 and again from 2012 until her second departure in 2017. Katona was the winner of the third series of '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' in 2004, making her the first queen of the jungle, and was runner-up of ''Celebrity Big Brother 8'' in 2011. In 2021 she competed in the third series of ''Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins''. Early life Katona was born in Warrington, Cheshire. Katona's maternal grandfather is Hungarian who fled Budapest to London during the Second World War. As a child she was placed in care and brought up by four sets of foster parents and attended eight different schools. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisha Katona
Nisha Katona, Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 23 October 1971) is a British chef and TV presenter. She is the founder of Mowgli Street Food restaurants and the Mowgli Trust charity, a food writer, television presenter, she was a child protection barrister for 20 years. Career Katona worked full-time as a child protection barrister for 20 years on the Northern Circuit. In 2008 the Department of Culture, Media and Sport appointed her trustee of National Museums Liverpool and in 2009 she was appointed by the Cabinet Office, Ambassador for Diversity in Public Appointments. She then switched to teaching about Indian cuisine. She founded Mowgli Street Food restaurants in the UK, and also founded and chairs thMowgli Trust which donates over £300,000 to local and world charities every year. Katona is the author of 4 cookbooks: ''Pimp My Rice'', ''The Spice Tree'', ''The Mowgli Street Food: Authentic Indian Street Food and The 30-Minute Mowgli''. Her fifth book, ''Meat Free Mowgl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ervin Katona
Ervin Katona (Serbian Cyrillic: Ервин Катона; born 5 January 1977) is a Serbian strongman competitor and regular entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition. He has competed in 99 International strongman competitions (fourth highest in history) and have won 17 of them, making him the seventh most decorated strongman in history. Katona is an ethnic Hungarian. Biography Ervin Katona was a junior national kickboxing champion in his youth. He later moved into the field of Strength athletics, and started weight training at the age of 25. He had soon won a number of Balkan titles and became the winner of the Serbia's Strongest Man title. Katona became a member of the International Federation of Strength Athletes and following the latter's schism with World's Strongest Man could not compete in that event. He did compete, however, in the IFSA version in both 2006 and 2007. In 2008 he was a major figure on the Strongman Champions League circuit and consistent podium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katona Twins
The Katona Twins are a Hungarian guitar duo, composed of identical twins Péter and Zoltán Katona. They have performed at prestigious venues and at major music festivals around the world. Their performances and recordings have been widely reviewed by the music press. and they have been described as "the classical world's best-known guitar duo". The Katonas' repertoire includes Classical music, Tango and Spanish guitar. They have also adapted and arranged classical works for guitar duo. Their album releases have included works by Handel, Scarlatti, Isaac Albéniz and Ástor Piazzolla. They also perform works by de Falla and Castelnuovo-Tedesco, as well modern composers such as Paco de Lucía, and concerti for two guitars and orchestra by Rodrigo, Vivaldi and Bach. Biography The identical twins Péter and Zoltán Katona were born in Budapest, Hungary in 1968. From the age of ten they studied, both individually and as a guitar duo, at the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
József Katona
József Katona (11 November 1791, Kecskemét – 16 April 1830, Kecskemét) was a Hungarian playwright and poet, creator of the Hungarian historical tragedy ''Bánk bán''. Biography József Katona was born and died in Kecskemét. He studied at the University of Pest as a lawyer, and at the same time, he took part in theatrical life of the capital: he was an actor, he wrote several plays, and he also translated and adapted German melodramatic works for the Hungarian stage. He hopelessly loved the leading Hungarian actress, Mme Déry, but she never recognized this love. József Katona wrote ''Bánk bán'', his most important drama for a literary competition organized by a Kolozsvár periodical in 1815. The competition required a historical drama with a Hungarian background. The result of the competition was disappointment for Katona: his ''Bánk Bán'' was not mentioned at all. He rewrote the play and published it privately in 1820, but it remained unnoticed until the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iggy Katona
Egnatius "Iggy" Katona (August 16, 1916 – December 4, 2003) was an American stock car racing driver from Willis, Michigan. He is most famous for his performance in the ARCA series in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, where he won six championships and 79 races, the latter of which stood as a series record until Frank Kimmel surpassed it in 2013. Other ARCA records held by Katona include most starts (630), oldest race winner (57 years old, Daytona International Speedway, 1974) and most consecutive seasons with a win (19, from 1953–1971) Early career Katona started out racing motorcycles in local races in Michigan and Ohio at age 21, winning nearly every race he entered. After a brief tour of duty in the Army during World War II, he turned to midget car racing. Building his own engines and chassis and with his two sons Ronnie and Jim as crew members, Katona found success on four wheels as well, including winning 14 feature races in a row at Detroit's famed Motor City Speedway dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Katona
George Katona (6 November 1901, Budapest – 18 June 1981, West Berlin) was a Hungarian-born American psychologist who was one of the first to advocate a rapprochement between economics and psychology. He graduated with a doctorate in Experimental Psychology from the University of Göttingen in 1921, and worked in Germany until 1933, both as a journalist and as a psychological researcher. Originally trained as a Gestalt psychologist working on problems of learning and memory, during the Second World War he became involved in American government attempts to use psychology to combat war-induced inflation. This led him to consider the application of psychological principles to macroeconomics, devising measures of consumer expectations that eventually became the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index. Use of this index enabled him to predict the post-war boom in the United States at a time when conventional econometric indicators were predicting a recession, a success whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sándor Katona
Sándor Katona is a Hungarian glider aerobatic pilot. He is a professional aerobatics instructorSchwarzwälder Bote 29 June 2007: WM-Ticket für Michael Zistler - accessed 2008-02-14 and competed in most and European Glider Aerobatic Championships. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nándor Katona
Katona Nándor or Nathan Ferdinand Kleinberger (12 September 1864 Szepesófalu (Spišská Stará Ves), Kingdom of Hungary now Slovakia – 1 August 1932, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian Jewish painter. One of seven children of a dismally poor Jewish family he was discovered as a prodigy, brought up and instructed in painting by László Mednyánszky. He later studied in Budapest and Paris, and traveled extensively throughout Western Europe. Most of his works depict scenes of nature from his home region, the Szepes county (Spiš) in particular views of the Tatra Mountains and the area of Késmárk (Kežmarok), which he considered his home town despite having spent much of his life in Budapest. His works are on exhibit at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, the Slovak National Gallery, the Eastern Slovak Gallery in Kassa (Košice) and the Tatra Gallery in Poprad Poprad (; hu, Poprád; german: Deutschendorf) is a city in northern Slovakia at the foot of the Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamás Katona
Tamás Katona (2 February 1932 – 28 June 2013) hetivalasz.hu (Hozzáférés: 2013. június 29.) was a Hungarian historian, academic, politician, who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 1992 and as Mayor of Budavár (1st district of ) between 1994 and 1998. Besides that he represented ( Pest County Constituen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kálmán Katona
Kálmán Katona (8 April 1948 – 5 February 2017) was a Hungarian politician as a member of Parliament and President of the Electorate of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) conservative party. He served as Vice-President of the Committee for Economy of the Hungarian Parliament between 1990 and 1994, and as Minister of Transport, Communications and Water Management in the cabinet of Viktor Orbán between July 1998 and May 2000. He was the Hungarian Democratic Forum candidate for Mayor of Budapest The Mayor of Budapest ( hu, Budapest főpolgármestere) is the head of the General Assembly in Budapest, Hungary, elected directly for 5-year term since 2014 (previously municipal elections were held quadrennially). Until 1994 the mayor was elect ... in 2006. He was married since 1973 and had three children. He died on 5 February 2017, aged 69. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katonah (other)
Katonah may refer to: * Katonah (Native American leader) * Katonah, New York Katonah is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the town of Bedford, Westchester County, in the U.S. state of New York. The Katonah CDP had a population of 1,679 at the 2010 census. History Katonah is named for Chief Katonah, an ..., a hamlet within the town of Bedford * Katonah (album), a music album by Apollo Sunshine, named after the above hamlet See also * Katona {{disambig, given name, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
