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

* Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975–1038), last grand prince of the Hungarians and first king of Hungary *

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 * Stephen III Báthory (died 1444), Palatine of Hungary * Stephen V Báthory (1430–1493), Hungarian commander, judge royal and Voivode of Transylvania *

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 *

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 * Stephen Báthory (1533–1586), Voivode of Transylvania, Prince of Transylvania, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania * Stephen Báthory (1555–1605), judge royal of the Kingdom of Hungary * Stephen Bocskai (1557–1606), Prince of Transylvania and Hungary *

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

* István Balogh (politician) (1894–1976), Hungarian Catholic priest and anti-communist politician * István Bethlen (1874–1946), Prime Minister of Hungary * István Bethlen (born 1946) (1946–2018), Hungarian economist and politician * István Bibó (1911–1979), Hungarian lawyer, civil servant, politician and political theorist * István Bittó (1822–1903), Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary * István Dobi (1898–1968), Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary * István Farkas de Boldogfa (1875–1921), Hungarian nobleman and jurist * István Friedrich (1883–1951), Hungarian politician, footballer and factory owner, Prime Minister of Hungary for three months * István Gorove (1819–1881), Hungarian politician and cabinet minister * István Hiller (born 1964), Hungarian politician and cabinet minister * István Horthy (1904–1942), Hungarian World War II anti-Nazi politician and fighter pilot * István Nagy (politician, born 1954), Hungarian politician * István Nagy (politician, born 1967), Hungarian agrarian engineer and politician * István Pálfi (1966–2006), Hungarian politician * István Pásztor (politician) (born 1956), Serbian politician * István Széchenyi (1791–1860), Hungarian politician, political theorist and writer * István Szent-Iványi (born 1958), Hungarian politician and diplomat *

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 *

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 * István Varga (politician, born 1956), Hungarian politician, economist and former Minister of National Development and Economy * István Werbőczy (1458–1541), Hungarian legal theorist, statesman and theologian, author of the Hungarian Customary Law

Musicians and artists

* István Árkossy (born 1943), Hungarian painter and graphic artist *

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 * István Csók (1865–1961), Hungarian painter * István Ferenczy (1792–1856), Hungarian sculptor * Istvan Kantor (born 1949), Canadian performance and video artist and industrial music and electropop singer * István Kertész (conductor) (1929–1973), Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor *

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 * István Nagy (painter) (1873-1937), Hungarian painter * István Orosz (born 1951), Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director

Authors

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 * István Küzmics (1723–1779), the most important Lutheran writer of the Slovenes in Hungary *

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 István Fáry (30 June 1922 – 2 November 1984) was a Hungarian-born mathematician known for his work in geometry and algebraic topology.. He proved Fáry's theorem that every planar graph has a straight-line embedding in 1948, and the Fáry� ...

(1922–1984), Hungarian mathematician *

István Gyöngy István Gyöngy (born 1951) is a Hungarian mathematician working in the fields of stochastic differential equations, stochastic partial differential equations and their applications to nonlinear filtering and stochastic control. Recently, he h ...

(born 1951), Hungarian mathematician *

István Hatvani István Hatvani (1718–1786) was a Hungarian mathematician. He worked on developing some of the earliest elements of probability theory Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several d ...

(1718–1786), Hungarian mathematician *

István Hont István Hont (15 April 1947 – 29 March 2013) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian-born British historian of economics and political thought, University Reader in the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. Hont was supervised as ...

(1947–2013), Hungarian-born British historian of economics and political thought *

István Mészáros (philosopher) István Mészáros (, , ; 19 December 1930 – 1 October 2017) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher. Described as "one of the foremost political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries" by ''Monthly Review'', Mészár ...

(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 Stefan (István, Stephan) Fazekas (23 March 1898, Sátoraljaújhely, Zemplén County, Kingdom of Hungary – 3 May 1967, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, England) was a Czechoslovak–British chess master. Born in Austria-Hungary, he lived in Czechoslov ...

(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 Istvan Bakx (born 20 January 1986) is a Dutch former professional footballer. He was a left-footed winger, and could also be used as a striker. Club career Bakx was discovered by Sparta Rotterdam in 2005, while he was playing for VV Kloetinge i ...

(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 István Déván ( sk, Štefan Déván; 4 November 1891 – 20 April 1977) was a Hungarian track and field athlete and cross-country skier who competed for Hungary in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Winter Olympics. He was born in P ...

(1890–1977), Hungarian sprinter and cross-country skier *

István Donogán István Donogán (; 13 December 1897 – 25 November 1966) was a Hungarian discus thrower. He competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 1928 and 1932 and was third at the European Athletics Championships, European Championships in 1934. Career D ...

(1897–1966), Hungarian discus thrower * István Énekes (1911–1940), Hungarian boxer *

István Ferenczi István Ferenczi (born 14 September 1977) is a Hungarian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He gained nine caps for the Hungary national team between 2001 and 2008 and scored two goals. The last club he played for in the t ...

(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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Istvan Hungarian masculine given names