The surname Fodor may refer to the following notable people: * Benjamin Fodor alias

Phoenix Jones Phoenix Jones (born Benjamin John Francis Fodor, 1988 in Texas) is an American real-life superhero. Initially wearing a ski mask to intervene in a public assault, Fodor later developed a full costume and adopted "Phoenix Jones" as a pseudonym. F ...

(born 1988), American real-life superhero *

Carel Anton Fodor Carel Anton Fodor or Carolus Antonius Fodor (12 April 1768 – 22 February 1846) was a Dutch pianist, conductor, and the most prominent composer of his generation in the Netherlands, writing in the manner of Joseph Haydn. He was born in Venl ...

(1768–1846), Dutch conductor and composer *

Carl Fodor Carl Fodor (born November 6, 1963) is a former American football quarterback who played two seasons with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at Marshall University. He was also a member of the ...

(born 1963), American football player *

Caros Fodor Caros Fodor (born January 7, 1984) is an American professional mixed martial artist who most recently competed in the Lightweight division of the Professional Fighters League. A professional competitor since 2009, he has also competed for the UF ...

(born 1984), American mixed martial artist *

Eugene Fodor (writer) Eugene Fodor (; October 14, 1905 – February 18, 1991) was a Hungarian-American writer of travel literature. Biography Fodor was born in Léva, Hungary (then Austria-Hungary; now Levice, Slovakia). Noting that travel guides of his time we ...

(1905–1991), American writer of travel literature, founder of Fodor's travel guides *

Eugene Fodor (violinist) Eugene Nicholas Fodor, Jr. (March 5, 1950 – February 26, 2011) was an American classical violinist. Fodor was born in Denver, Colorado. His first 10 years of study were with Harold Wippler, who taught him from 1958 until 1968. Wippler obser ...

(1950–2011), American violin virtuoso *

Florin Fodor Florin Fodor (born 1974) is a citizen of Romania who made several efforts to illegally enter Canada. His last incursion gained notoriety as the first illegal immigrant to attempt to enter Canada through its vast and sparsely populated Arctic. Fod ...

(born 1974), Romanian who has repeatedly attempted to enter Canada illegally *

Gábor Fodor (chemist) Gábor Béla Fodor (December 5, 1915 – November 3, 2000) was a Hungarian-American chemist, medical research scientist, and professor of chemistry. His work in academia, which spanned six decades in Europe and later in North America, specialized ...

(1915–2000), chemist *

Gábor Fodor (politician) Gábor Fodor (born 27 September 1962) is a Hungarian jurist, liberal politician and a delegate to the Hungarian Round Table Talks. He was member of the Hungarian parliament from 1990 to 2019. Later he was the representative of the Hungarian parl ...

(born 1962), liberal politician * Géza Fodor (philosopher) (1943–2008), art critic, dramaturge *

Géza Fodor (mathematician) Géza Fodor (6 May 1927 in Szeged – 28 September 1977 in Szeged) was a Hungarian mathematician, working in set theory. He proved Fodor's lemma on stationary sets, one of the most important, and most used results in set theory. He was a pr ...

(1927–1977), mathematician, the namesake of Fodor's lemma * István Fodor (born 1945), Hungarian former politician, former Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary *

Janet Dean Fodor Janet Dean Fodor (born 1942) is distinguished professor of linguistics at the City University of New York. Her primary field is psycholinguistics, and her research interests include human sentence processing, prosody, learnability theory a ...

(born 1942), American psycholinguist *

Jerry Fodor Jerry Alan Fodor (; April 22, 1935 – November 29, 2017) was an American philosopher and the author of many crucial works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His writings in these fields laid the groundwork for the modu ...

(1935–2017), American author and philosopher *

Josef von Fodor Josef von Fodor de Galánta ( hu, galántai Fodor József; 16 July 1843 – 19 March 1901) was a Hungarian professor of hygiene at the University of Buda-Pesth and pioneer of public health. Early life and education Birth Josef von Fodor was ...

(1843–1901), Hungarian professor of hygiene *

Lajos Fodor Col. Gen. Lajos Fodor (born 27 July 1947) is a retired Hungarian military officer and diplomat, who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Hungary from 1 August 1999 to 28 February 2003. Career Fodor func ...

(born 1947), Hungarian colonel general and diplomat, former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Hungary *

Marcel Fodor Marcel W. "Mike" Fodor (17 January 1890 in Budapest, Hungary - 1 July 1977 in Trostberg, Germany; often cited as M. W. Fodor), was a foreign correspondent for several British and American newspapers in Vienna during the years between the world w ...

(1890–1977), Hungarian-American foreign correspondent, journalist, and author *

Răzvan Fodor Răzvan Florin Fodor () is a Romanian singer and actor, and TV personality. He was born on June 22, 1975 in Bucharest, Romania. He was the lead singer for the Romanian rock group Krypton (''also spelled Kripton'') from 2000 to 2006, as well as be ...

(born 1975), Romanian singer

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