Imre is a
Hungarian masculine first name, which is also in
Estonian
Estonian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Estonia, a country in the Baltic region in northern Europe
* Estonians, people from Estonia, or of Estonian descent
* Estonian language
* Estonian cuisine
* Estonian culture
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use, where the corresponding
name day is 10 April.
It has been suggested that it relates to the name
Emeric
Emerich, Emeric, Emerick and Emerik are given names and surnames. They may refer to:
Given name Pre-modern era
* Saint Emeric of Hungary (c. 1007–1031), son of King Stephen I of Hungary
* Emeric, King of Hungary (1174–1204)
* Emeric Kökénye ...
,
Emmerich
Emmerich may refer to:
Places
* Emmerich am Rhein, city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
** Emmerich Rhine Bridge
** Emmerich station
* Emmerich, Wisconsin, unincorporated community in the town of Berlin, Wisconsin, United States
Other uses
* ...
or
Heinrich.
Its English equivalents are Emery and Henry.
Bearers of the name include the following (who generally held Hungarian nationality, unless otherwise noted):
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Imre Antal
Imre Antal (31 July 1935 – 15 April 2008) was a Hungarian pianist, television presenter and comedian.
His career as a pianist
He graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Music Zeneakadémia, Budapest. He became a celebrated young pianist in ...
(1935–2008), pianist
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Imre Bajor (1957–2014), actor
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Imre Bebek (d. 1395), baron
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Imre Bródy
Imre Bródy (1891, Gyula, HungaryAntal Papp: Magyarország (Hungary), Panoráma, Budapest, 1982, , p. 860, pp. 453-456–1944, Mühldorf) was a Hungarian physicist who invented in 1930 the krypton-filled fluorescent lamps (also known as the kr ...
(1891–1944), physicist
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Imre Bujdosó
Imre Bujdosó (born 12 February 1959, in Berettyóújfalu, Hajdú-Bihar County
Hajdú-Bihar ( hu, Hajdú-Bihar megye, ) is an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with th ...
(b. 1959), Olympic fencer
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Imre Csáky (cardinal)
Imre Csáky (28 October 1672 – 28 August 1732) was a Hungarian Roman Catholic cardinal.
Biography
Imre Csáky was born to Count István Csáky and Klára Melith in Spiš Castle (nowadays in Slovakia), a fief of his family. He studied in Koš ...
(1672–1732), Roman Catholic cardinal
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Imre Csermelyi
Imre Csermelyi (born 29 August 1988, in Kapuvár) is a Hungarian football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form ...
(b. 1988), football player
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Imre Cseszneky (1804–1874), agriculturist and patriot
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Imre Csiszár
Imre Csiszár () is a Hungarian mathematician with contributions to information theory
and probability theory. In 1996 he won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest annual
award given in the field of information theory.
He was born on Februa ...
(b. 1938), mathematician
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Imre Csösz
Imre is a Hungarian language, Hungarian masculine first name, which is also in Estonian language, Estonian use, where the corresponding name day is 10 April. It has been suggested that it relates to the name Emeric, Emmerich (name), Emmerich or H ...
(b. 1969), Olympic judoka
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Imre Czobor (1520–1581), Noble and statesman
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Imre Czomba (b. 1972), Composer and musician
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Imre Deme (b. 1983), football player
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Imre Erdődy
Imre Erdődy (March 26, 1889 – January 11, 1973) was a Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
He was part of the Hungarian team, which won the silver medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1912. He ...
(1889–1973), Olympic gymnast
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Imre Farkas (1879–1976), musician
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Imre Farkas (1935–2020), Olympic canoeist
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Imre Finta (1911–2003), indicted war criminal
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Imre Földi (1938–2017), Olympic weightlifter
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Imre Friedmann (1921–2007), biologist
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Imre Frivaldszky (1799–1870), botanist and entomologist
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Imre Garaba (b. 1958), football player
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Imre Gedővári (1951–2014), Olympic fencer
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Imre Gellért (1888–1981), Olympic gymnast
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Imre Gyöngyössy (1930–1994), film director and screenwriter
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Imre Harangi (1913–1979), Olympic boxer
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Imre Hódos
Imre Hódos (January 10, 1928 in Hajdúnánás – April 23, 1989 in Debrecen) was a Hungary, Hungarian wrestling, wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Olympics
Hódos competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki wher ...
(1928–1989), Olympic wrestler
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Imre Hollai
Imre Hollai ( hu, Hollai Imre; 22 January 1925 – 22 November 2017) was a Hungarian diplomat and politician, who served as President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1982-1983, during its thirty-seventh session.
Biography
Imre Hol ...
(1925–2017), diplomat,
President of the United Nations General Assembly
The president of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis. The president is the chair and presiding officer of the General Assembly.
Election
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Imre Jenei (b. 1937), Romanian (Hungarian ethnic) football player and coach
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Imre Kálmán (1882–1953), operetta composer
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Imre Kertész (1929–2016), author and winner of the 2002
Nobel Prize in Literature
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Imre König
Imre König (Koenig) aka Mirko Kenig (September 2, 1901, Gyula, Austria-Hungary – September 9, 1992, Santa Monica, California) was a chess master representing Yugoslavia and Great Britain.
He was born in Gyula, Hungary, and also lived in Aust ...
(1899–1992), chess master
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Imre Komora
Imre Komora (born 5 June 1940) is a former Hungarian footballer.
During his club career he played for Budapest Honvéd FC. For the Hungary national football team, he participated in the 1964 European Nations' Cup. He also won a gold medal in ...
(b. 1940), football player
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Imre Lakatos (1922–1974), philosopher of mathematics and science
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Imre Leader
Imre Bennett Leader is a British Othello player, employed as a professor of pure mathematics at Cambridge University.
As a child, he was a pupil at the private St Paul's School and won a silver medal on the British team at the 1981 Internatio ...
(b. 1963), British mathematician
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Imre Madách
Imre Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény (20 January 1823 – 5 October 1864) was a Hungarian aristocrat, writer, poet, lawyer and politician. His major work is ''The Tragedy of Man'' (''Az ember tragédiája'', 1861). It is a dramatic poem appro ...
(1823–1864), writer, poet, lawyer and politician
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Imre Makovecz (1935–2011), architect
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Imre Mándi (1916–1945), Olympic boxer
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Imre Mikó
Count Imre Mikó de Hidvég (4 September 1805 – 16 September 1876) was a Hungarian statesman, politician, economist, historian and patron from Transylvania, who served as Minister of Public Works and Transport between 1867 and 1870. He was on ...
(1805–1876), Statesman, politician, economist, historian and patron from
Transylvania
Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Ap ...
, who served as
Minister of Public Works and Transport of Hungary between 1867 and 1870
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Imre Mudin (1887–1918), Olympic track and field athlete
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Imre Nagy
Imre Nagy (; 7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (''de facto'' Prime Minister) of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader ...
(1896–1958), politician, twice
Prime Minister of Hungary, key figure of the
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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Imre Nagy
Imre Nagy (; 7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (''de facto'' Prime Minister) of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader ...
(b. 1933), Olympic pentathlete
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Imre Németh
Imre Németh (23 September 1917 in Košice, Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia) – 18 August 1989 in Budapest) was a Hungary, Hungarian hammer thrower.
He won the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, Great Britain.
He ...
(1917–1989), Olympic hammer thrower
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Imre of Hungary (''c.'' 1007–1031), prince and Roman Catholic saint
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Imre of Hungary (1174–1204),
King of Hungary
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Imre Páli
Imre Páli (german: Imre Paul) (born 6 November 1909, date of death unknown) was a Hungarian field handball
Field handball (also known as outdoor handball or grass handball) was a form of what is now handball and was played at the 1936 Summer ...
(1909–?), Olympic handballer
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Imre Polyák
Imre Polyák (16 April 1932 – 15 November 2010) was a featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Hungary. He competed in the 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won three silver and one gold medal. He won the world title in 1955, 1958 and 1962 ...
(1932–2010), Olympic wrestler
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Imre Pozsgay
Imre András Pozsgay (''Pozsgay Imre'', ; 26 November 1933 – 25 March 2016) was a Hungarian Communist politician who played a key role in Hungary's transition to democracy after 1988. He served as Minister of Culture (1976–1980), Minister ...
(1933–2016), reform Communist politician
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Imre Pulai
Imre Pulai (born November 14, 1967 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist, who won two Olympic medals in the Canadian canoeing event, including a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with teammate Ferenc Novák.
As a ...
(b. 1967), Olympic canoer
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Imre Rapp (1937–2015), football player
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Imre Salusinszky
Imre Salusinszky (born 1955) is an Australian journalist, political adviser and English literature academic who is currently media adviser to former Australian Government Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, P ...
(b. 1955), Australian newspaper columnist
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Imre Schlosser
Imre Schlosser (also known as Imre Schlosser-Lakatos; 11 October 1889 – 18 July 1959) was a Hungarian footballer of Danube Swabian ancestry who played as a forward. He still holds the record as the highest goalscorer in the history of the H ...
(1889–1959), football player
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Imre Senkey (1898–?), football player and manager
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Imre Sooäär
Imre Sooäär (born 13 March 1969, in Tallinn) is an Estonian businessman and politician. He has been member of X Riigikogu, X, XI Riigikogu, XI, XII Riigikogu, XII, XIII Riigikogu, XIII and XIV Riigikogu.
He has been a member of the Res Publica ...
(born 1969), Estonian politician
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Imre Steindl (1839–1902), architect
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Imre Szabics
Imre Szabics (born 22 March 1981) is a Hungarian football manager and former professional footballer.
Szabics was born in Szeged where he played as a youngster. He was spotted by Ferencváros and signed for them in 1990, making his professional ...
(b. 1981), football player
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Imre Szekeres
Imre Szekeres (born 9 September 1950) is a Hungarian people, Hungarian politician of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) and former Minister of Defense.
Biography
Szekeres was born in Szolnok. He is married to a chemical engineer; they have tw ...
(b. 1950), politician and Minister of Defence
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Imre Szellő
Imre Szellő (born July 27, 1983) is a Hungarian professional boxer who has qualified for the 2008 Olympics.
Career
2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships
At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago Szellő missed out on a bron ...
(b. 1983), Olympic boxer
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Imre Szentpály
Imre Szentpály (November 15, 1904 – January 24, 1987) was a Hungarian polo player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Nagyvárad.
He was part of the Hungarian polo team, which finished fourth. He played all three matches ...
(1904–1987), Olympic polo player
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Imre Taussig
Imre Taussig (28 June 1894 – 23 March 1945) was a Hungarian international association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward right winger. Taussig, who was Jewish, played club football for MTK Budapest FC, ...
(1894–1945), Hungarian footballer
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Imre Taveter
Imre Taveter (born 21 April 1967, in Keila) is a retired Estonian sailor who specialized in the Finn class.
He started sailing in the Optimist class in 1976 at Kalev Yacht Club, in the Pirita district of Tallinn. Taveter won U18 Youth Champion ...
(born 1967), Estonian sport sailor
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Imre Thököly (1657–1705), statesman, leader of an anti-
Habsburg
The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...
uprising, Prince of
Transylvania
Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Ap ...
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Imre Tiidemann (b. 1970), Estonian modern pentathlete
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Imre Tiitsu
Imre Tiitsu (born June 18, 1980) is an Estonian ice sledge hockey player.
He was part of the Estonian sledge hockey team at the Ice sledge hockey at the 2002 Winter Paralympics, 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, United States.
He had a ...
(b. 1980), Estonian ice sledge hockey player
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Imre Tóth
Imre "Imi" Tóth (born 6 September 1985 in Budapest, Hungary) is a motorcycle racer who competed for 8 years in Grand Prix motorcycle racing in the 125cc the 250cc World Championships as a privateer. He last raced in the Superbike World Cha ...
(b. 1985),
Grand Prix motorcycle racer
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Imre Varadi (b. 1959), English football player
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Imre Weisshaus (1905–1987), Hungarian-French pianist
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Imre Zachár (1890–1954), Olympic water polo player and swimmer
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Imre Zámbó (1958–2001), pop singer by the name of Jimmy Zámbó
See also
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Imre (surname) The surname Imre may refer to:
*Peter Imre (1962–2022), Romanian businessman
* Sándor Imre (1877–1945), Hungarian educator and briefly Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary
* Vilmos Imre (born 1968), Hungarian handball coach and former ...
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Americus (disambiguation) Americus may refer to:
Places in the United States
* Americus, Georgia, a city with a population of around 17,000
* Americus, Indiana, a small town in Washington Township
* Americus, Kansas, a city with a population of around 900
* Americus, Missou ...
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Emre
Emre
* Emre Altuğ (born 1970), Turkish musician
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* Emre Aracı (born 1968), Turkish music historian, conductor, composer
* Emre Aydın (born 1981), Turkish rock singer
* Emre Aşık (born 1973), Turkish footballer
* Emre Zafer Barnes (born 19 ...
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Haimirich
Henry is a masculine given name derived from Old French ''Henri'' / ''Henry'', itself derived from the Old Frankish name ''Heimeric'', from Common Germanic ''*Haimarīks'' (from '' *haima-'' "home" and ''*rīk-'' "ruler"). In Old High German, the ...
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