István () is a
Hungarian language equivalent of the name
Stephen or
Stefan. It may refer to:
People with the given name
Nobles, palatines and judges royal
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Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975–1038), last grand prince of the Hungarians and first king of Hungary
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Stephen Rozgonyi Stephen Rozgonyi (d. after 1440), son of Ladislaus, was ispán (''comes'') of Temes County between 1427 and 1438.Diós István, dr.: Magyar katolikus lexikon. 11. köt., Szent István Kiadó, Budapest, 2006. p. 728. He married twice, first to Cecí ...
(died after 1440), ''ispán'' (Count) of Temes County
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Stephen III Báthory
Stephen III Báthory ( hu, Báthory István) (died 11 November 1444, Varna) was a Hungarian nobleman and commander. His most prestigious position was Palatine of Hungary.
Stephen belonged to the Ecsed branch of the Báthory family. His parents ...
(died 1444), Palatine of Hungary
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Stephen V Báthory (1430–1493), Hungarian commander, judge royal and Voivode of Transylvania
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Stephen VIII Báthory
Stephen VIII Báthory ( hu, Báthory István, ) (1477–1534) was a Hungarian noble.
He was a son of Nicholas Báthory (1462–1500) of the Somlyó branch of the Báthory family, and of Sophia Bánffy de Losoncz.
He was appointed in 1521 adjoin ...
(1477–1534), Voivode of Transylvania
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Stephen VII Báthory
Stephen VII Báthory ( hu, Báthory István, links=no; died 3 May 1530) was a Hungarian nobleman and commander. His most prestigious position was Palatine of Hungary.
Stephen belonged to the Ecsed branch of the Báthory family. His father was A ...
(1480–1530), Count of Temesvár and Palatine of Hungary
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Stephen Báthory (1533–1586), Voivode of Transylvania, Prince of Transylvania, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
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Stephen Báthory (1555–1605)
Stephen Báthory of Ecsed ( hu, ecsedi Báthory István; 1555 – 25 July 1605) was judge royal of the Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages in ...
, judge royal of the Kingdom of Hungary
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Stephen Bocskai (1557–1606), Prince of Transylvania and Hungary
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Stephen Bethlen
Stephen Bethlen de Iktár (1582 – 23 December 1648) was the Prince of Transylvania in late 1630.
Early life
Stephen was the younger of the two sons of Farkas Bethlen de Iktár and Druzsiána Lázár de Szárhegy. He was born in his father's ...
(1582–1648), Prince of Transylvania
Politicians
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István Balogh (politician) (1894–1976), Hungarian Catholic priest and anti-communist politician
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István Bethlen (1874–1946), Prime Minister of Hungary
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István Bethlen (born 1946)
István Bethlen (19 June 1946 – 4 September 2018) was a Hungarian economist and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from MDF Budapest Regional List between 1990 and 1994.
Biography
He was born as Count István Bethlen de Bethlen ...
(1946–2018), Hungarian economist and politician
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István Bibó (1911–1979), Hungarian lawyer, civil servant, politician and political theorist
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István Bittó
Count István Bittó de Sárosfa et Nádasd (3 May 1822 in Sárosfa, Kingdom of Hungary (today Blatná na Ostrove, Slovakia) – 7 March 1903 in Budapest) was a Hungarian politician who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hunga ...
(1822–1903), Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary
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István Dobi (1898–1968), Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary
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István Farkas de Boldogfa
Dr. István Farkas de Boldogfa (11 July 1875 – 6 January 1921) was a Hungarian nobleman, jurist of the Kingdom of Hungary, supreme chief magistrate of district of Sümeg ( Hungarian: ''főszolgabíró'') in the county of Zala.
Life
Born in ...
(1875–1921), Hungarian nobleman and jurist
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István Friedrich (1883–1951), Hungarian politician, footballer and factory owner, Prime Minister of Hungary for three months
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István Gorove (1819–1881), Hungarian politician and cabinet minister
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István Hiller (born 1964), Hungarian politician and cabinet minister
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István Horthy
Vitéz István Horthy de Nagybánya (9 December 1904 – 20 August 1942) was Hungarian regent Admiral Miklós Horthy's eldest son, a politician, and, during World War II, a fighter pilot.
Biography
In his youth, István Horthy and his young ...
(1904–1942), Hungarian World War II anti-Nazi politician and fighter pilot
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István Nagy (politician, born 1954)
István Nagy (born January 1, 1954) is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from Fidesz Budapest Regional List from 2010 to 2014. He was also a Member of Parliament from the party's National List from 2006 to 2010.
Nagy ...
, Hungarian politician
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István Nagy (politician, born 1967)
István Nagy (born 6 October 1967) is a Hungarian agricultural engineer and politician who has served as Minister of Agriculture since 2018.
Profession
Nagy was born in Újfehértó, where he spent his childhood and attended elementary school. ...
, Hungarian agrarian engineer and politician
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István Pálfi
István Pálfi (23 September 1966, Berettyóújfalu – 15 July 2006, Berettyóújfalu) was a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party. He sat on the Euro ...
(1966–2006), Hungarian politician
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István Pásztor (politician) (born 1956), Serbian politician
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István Széchenyi (1791–1860), Hungarian politician, political theorist and writer
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István Szent-Iványi
István Szent-Iványi (born 12 November 1958, Kecskemét, Hungary) is a Hungarian politician, Hungarian Ambassador to Slovenia, founding member of the Alliance of Free Democrats political party, and former Member of the European Parliament (ME ...
(born 1958), Hungarian politician and diplomat
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István Tisza
Count István Imre Lajos Pál Tisza de Borosjenő et Szeged (archaically anglicized Stephen Emery Louis Paul Tisza, in short Stephen Tisza; 22 April 1861 – 31 October 1918) was a Hungarian politician, prime minister, political scientist, inte ...
(1861–1918), Hungarian politician, Prime Minister, political scientist, international lawyer and macroeconomist
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István Varga (politician, born 1953)
István Varga (born 18 October 1953) is a Hungarian lawyer and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from 1994 to 2002, and from 2010 to 2014.
Political career
He joined Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) in 1988, and served as Presiden ...
, Hungarian lawyer and politician
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István Varga (politician, born 1956)
István Varga (born 23 June 1956) is a Hungarian politician and economist, who served as Minister of National Development and Economy between 2009 and 2010. Gordon Bajnai
György Gordon Bajnai (; born 5 March 1968) is a Hungarian entreprene ...
, Hungarian politician, economist and former Minister of National Development and Economy
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István Werbőczy
István Werbőczy or Stephen Werbőcz (also spelled ''Verbőczy'' and Latinized to ''Verbeucius'' 1458? – 1541) was a Hungarian legal theorist and statesman, author of the Hungarian Customary Law, who first became known as a legal scholar ...
(1458–1541), Hungarian legal theorist, statesman and theologian, author of the Hungarian Customary Law
Musicians and artists
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István Árkossy
István Árkossy (born 1943) is a Hungarian people, Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He is a member of the Association of Hungarian Creative Artists, the Federation of Hungarian Fine and Applied Arts Societies and the Association of Hungaria ...
(born 1943), Hungarian painter and graphic artist
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István Cserháti
István Cserháti (August 29, 1954 – August 21, 2005) was a Hungarian hard rock keyboardist who played for two bands: P. Mobil (1977–1980) and P. Box (1980–1986; 2001–2005).
In 1977, he was discovered by the P. Mobil members on a N ...
(1954–2005), Hungarian hard rock keyboardist
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István Csók
István Csók (13 February 1865, Sáregres – 1 February 1961) was a Hungarian Impressionist painter. Csok lived and exhibited in Paris for a portion of his life. He became most famous in Hungary for his nudes, portraits, and landscapes of ...
(1865–1961), Hungarian painter
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István Ferenczy
István Ferenczy (February 24, 1792 – July 4, 1856) was a Hungarian sculptor.
Career
Ferenczy made a number of exerted attempts to establish a school of sculpture in Hungary and it was his mission to establish and promote national art i ...
(1792–1856), Hungarian sculptor
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Istvan Kantor (born 1949), Canadian performance and video artist and industrial music and electropop singer
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István Kertész (conductor) (1929–1973), Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
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István Kiss (sculptor)
István Kiss (Biharillye, 8 June 1927 – Szekszárd, 29 December 1997) was a Hungarian sculptor and a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Central Committee between 1975 and 1989.
Education
Kiss attended secondary school at Nagys ...
(1927–1997), Hungarian sculptor
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István Nagy (painter)
István Nagy (28 March 1873 – 13 February 1937) was a Hungarian artist who specialized in landscapes and figure painting.
Biography
A native of Csíkmindszent, Harghita County, Romania, he was born into a land-owning family. Rather than t ...
(1873-1937), Hungarian painter
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István Orosz (born 1951), Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director
Authors
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István Fekete István Fekete (25 January 1900, Gölle, Austria-Hungary – 23 June 1970, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian writer. He wrote several youth novels and animal stories.
He is perhaps best known for his youth novel ''Tüskevár'' ("Thorn Castle", 1 ...
(1900–1970), Hungarian writer, author of several youth novels and animal stories
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István Küzmics (1723–1779), the most important Lutheran writer of the Slovenes in Hungary
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István Zsemlics
István Zsemlics or Zsemlits ( sl, 'Števan Žemlič' or ; around July 9, 1840 – November 10, 1891) was a Slovenes, Slovene author and Catholic Church, Catholic priest.
He was born in Murska Sobota in the region Prekmurje, in what was the Vas (f ...
(1840–1891), Slovene author and Catholic priest
Academics
* István Fáry (1922–1984), Hungarian mathematician
* István Gyöngy (born 1951), Hungarian mathematician
* István Hatvani (1718–1786), Hungarian mathematician
* István Hont (1947–2013), Hungarian-born British historian of economics and political thought
* István Mészáros (philosopher) (1930–2017), Hungarian Marxist philosopher
* István Perczel (born 1951), Hungarian historian
Chess players
* István Bilek (1932–2010), Hungarian chess grandmaster
* István Csom (1940–2021), Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter
* István Fazekas (1898–1967), Hungarian–British chess master
Sportspeople
* István Avar (1905–1977), football player and manager who played for both Hungary and Romania
* István Bagyula (born 1969), Hungarian retired pole vaulter
* Istvan Bakx (born 1986), Dutch footballer
* István Balogh (footballer) (1912–1992), Hungarian footballer
* István Bárány (1907–1995), Hungarian swimmer
* István Beé (born 1972), Hungarian sprint canoer
* István Déván (1890–1977), Hungarian sprinter and cross-country skier
* István Donogán (1897–1966), Hungarian discus thrower
* István Énekes (1911–1940), Hungarian boxer
* István Ferenczi (born 1977), Hungarian footballer
* István Géczi (born 1944), Hungarian football goalkeeper
* István Gulyás (1931–2000), Hungarian tennis player
* István Havasi (1930–2003), Hungarian race walker
* István Herczeg (1887–1949), Hungarian gymnast
* István Kiss (decathlete) (born 1924), Hungarian decathlete; see 1946 European Athletics Championships – Men's decathlon
* István Kiss (footballer) (born 1970), Hungarian footballer
* István Kiss (gymnast) (born 1948), Hungarian Olympic gymnast
* István Kiss (long-distance runner) (born 1940), Hungarian long-distance runner; see 1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres
* István Kiss (water polo) (born 1958), Hungarian former water polo player
* István Kovács (boxer) (born 1970), Hungarian retired world and Olympic champion boxer
* István Kozma (footballer) (born 1964), Hungarian former footballer
* István Kozma (wrestler) (1939–1970), Hungarian wrestler
* István Lévai (born 1957), Hungarian retired boxer
* István Major (1949–2014), Hungarian high jumper
* István Molnár (water polo) (1913–1983), Hungarian water polo player
* István Mudin (1881–1918), Hungarian athlete who competed in the throwing events and the pentathlon
* István Nagy (athlete) (born 1959), Hungarian sprinter
* István Nagy (footballer, born 1939) (1939–1999), Hungarian footballer
* István Nagy (footballer, born 1986), Hungarian footballer
* István Nyers (1924–2005), Hungarian footballer
* István Pelle (1907–1986), Hungarian gymnast
* István Rózsavölgyi (1929–2012), Hungarian middle-distance runner
* István Séllyei (1950–2020), Hungarian wrestler
* István Serényi (1911–1996), Hungarian field handball player
* István Somodi (1885–1963), Hungarian high jumper
* István Szabó (handballer) (born 1945), Hungarian handball player
* István Szabó (canoeist) (born 1950), Hungarian sprint canoer
* István Szilágyi (born 1950), Hungarian handball player
* István Sztáni (born 1937), Hungarian football manager and former player
* István Tóth (canoeist), Hungarian sprint canoer in the 1980s
* István Tóth (footballer) (1891–1945), Hungarian amateur footballer, manager and coach
* István Tóth (wrestler) (born 1951), Hungarian wrestler
* István Varga (handballer) (1943–2014), Hungarian handball player
* István Varga (judoka) (born 1960), Hungarian judoka
* István Vaskuti (born 1955), Hungarian sprint canoer
* István Verpecz (born 1987), Hungarian footballer
* István Vincze (born 1967), Hungarian football manager and former football player
* István Vituska (born 1988), Hungarian footballer
Other
* István Dobó (c. 1502–1572), Hungarian soldier and baron
* István Kiss (architect) (1857–1902), Hungarian architect
* Stephen Pongracz (1584–1619), Hungarian Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
* István Vágó (born 1949), Hungarian television host and political activist
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Hungarian masculine given names