Horváth is a common Hungarian surname. "Horváth" is the 2nd or 4th most common surname in Hungary as well as the most common in Slovakia.
It's thought to derive from Hungarian
horvát
Horvat is a surname of Croatian origin. It is the most frequent surname in Croatia and the second most frequent in Slovenia. Its variant Horvath is very frequent in Hungary and Slovakia.
The surname originates in Croatia, ''Horvat'' being the ol ...
("Croat") spelled without the final h in old orthography. The related Croatian surname
Horvat
Horvat is a surname of Croatian origin. It is the most frequent surname in Croatia and the second most frequent in Slovenia. Its variant Horvath is very frequent in Hungary and Slovakia.
The surname originates in Croatia, ''Horvat'' being the o ...
, which is derived from an older version of the noun "Hrvat" ("Croat"), is the most common surname in Croatia or the Croatian diaspora. Members of this family can be found across the world, and are most numerous in the United States. Variations of the name include Horvat, Horvaty, Hrvat, Chorbadi, Orbath, Orvath, Orvat.
People named Horváth
* Ádám Horváth (born 1981), Hungarian chess grandmaster
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Antonio Horvath
Antonio Carlos Horvath Kiss (3 January 1950 – 23 May 2018) was a Chilean politician who served as a Deputy from 1990 to 1994, and as a Senator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legis ...
Dezsö J. Horváth
Dezsö Joseph Horváth, is a Canadian businessman and educator. He was the dean of York University's Schulich School of Business from 1988 until 2020, and is a director of Inscape Corporation and UBS Bank (Canada). He is a former director of n ...
Johann Baptiste Horvath
Johann Baptiste Horvath ( hu, Keresztély János Horváth, 13 July 1732 in Kőszeg – 20 October 1799 in Buda) was a Hungarian Jesuit Professor of Physics and Philosophy at the Catholic university for teaching theology and philosophy in Nagyszo ...
Karoly Horvath
Karoly Horvath is a Hungarian-American pediatrician and gastroenterologist who was formerly the director of the Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Laboratory at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is best known for proposing a l ...
, Hungarian-American pediatric gastroenterologist
* Károly Horváth (1950–2015), Romanian-born Hungarian musician
* Les Horvath (1921–1995), American football player
* Mihály Horváth (1809–1878), Hungarian bishop, historian, and politician.
* Nick Horvath (born 1981), American-New Zealand basketball player
* Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938) German-writing Austro-Hungarian-born playwright and novelist
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Opika von Méray Horváth
Opika von Méray Horváth (December 30, 1889 – April 25, 1977), a.k.a. Zsófia Méray-Horváth, was a Hungarian figure skater. She won three consecutive World titles (1912–1914).
Biography
Méray Horváth was born in Arad in 1889. She bega ...
(1889–1977), Hungarian figure skater
* Pavel Horváth (born 1975), Czech footballer
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(born 1974), Hungarian swimmer
* Polly Horvath (born 1957), American-Canadian author
* Rudolf Horváth (born 1947), Slovak Olympic handball player
* Ryan Horvath (born 1983), American college football player
* Sascha Horvath (born 1996), Austrian footballer
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Steve Horvath
Steve Horvath is a German–American aging researcher, geneticist, and biostatistician. As the familyname Horváth indicates, he is of hungarian ancestry.
He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles known for developing the Epi ...
(born 1967), American aging researcher and inventor of the Horvath clock
* Vlastimil Horváth (born 1977), Romani singer
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William Horvath
William John Horvath (born March 23, 1938) was an American politician and conservationist.
Born in Shawano, Wisconsin, Horvath received his bachelor's degree in conservation from University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and his master's degree ...
(born 1938), American politician and conservationist
* Zander Horvath (born 1998), American football player
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Zoltán Horváth (disambiguation) Zoltán Horváth is the name of:
* (born 1966), Swiss animation film director
* Zoltán Horváth (basketball) (1979–2009), Hungarian basketball player
* Zoltán Horváth (equestrian) (born 1954), Hungarian equestrian
* Zoltán Horváth (fence ...
Hannah Horvath
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, character in the TV series ''Girls''
* Technical Sergeant Mike Horvath in '' Saving Private Ryan'', portrayed by
Tom Sizemore
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