Lajos () is a
Hungarian masculine
given name
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,
cognate
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to the English
Louis Louis may refer to:
* Louis (coin)
* Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name
* Louis (surname)
* Louis (singer), Serbian singer
* HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy
See also
Derived or associated terms
* Lewis ( ...
. People named Lajos include:
Hungarian monarchs:
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Lajos I, 1326-1382 (ruled 1342-1382)
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Lajos II
Louis II ( cs, LudvÃk, hr, Ludovik , hu, Lajos, sk, ĽudovÃt; 1 July 1506 – 29 August 1526) was King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia from 1516 to 1526. He was killed during the Battle of Mohács fighting the Ottomans, whose victory led to ...
, 1506-1526 (ruled 1516-1526)
In Hungarian politics:
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Lajos Aulich
Lajos Aulich (25 August 1793 – 6 October 1849) was the third Minister of War of Hungary.
A professional soldier and lieutenant colonel in the Austrian Army, he fought against Habsburg oppression.
At them time of the War of Hungarian Indepe ...
, second Minister of War of Hungary
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Lajos Batthyány
Count Lajos Batthyány de Németújvár (; hu, gróf németújvári Batthyány Lajos; 10 February 1807 – 6 October 1849) was the first Prime Minister of Hungary. He was born in Pozsony (modern-day Bratislava) on 10 February 1807, and was e ...
, first Prime Minister of Hungary
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Count Lajos Batthyány de Németújvár, county head of Győr and Governor of Fiume
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Lajos Dinnyés
Lajos Dinnyés (16 April 1901 – 3 May 1961) was a Hungarian politician of the Smallholders Party who served as the last pre-communist Prime Minister of Hungary from 1947 to 1948.
Biography
He came from a well to do titled family and finished ...
, Prime Minister of Hungary from 1947 to 1948
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Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (, hu, udvardi és kossuthfalvi Kossuth Lajos, sk, ĽudovÃt Košút, anglicised as Louis Kossuth; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, poli ...
, Hungarian lawyer, politician and Regent of Hungary
In football:
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Lajos Baróti
Lajos Baróti (; 19 August 1914 – 23 December 2005) was a Hungarian football player and manager. With eleven major titles he is one of the outstanding coaches of his era.
Career
Baróti played from 1928 until 1946 for Szegedi AK and from 19 ...
, coach of the Hungary national football team
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Lajos Czeizler
Lajos Czeizler (5 October 1893 – 6 May 1969) was a Hungarian footballer and coach. With 11 major titles altogether, he remains one of the most successful football coaches of all time.
Career
Czeizler was born in a Jewish family in Heves, Aust ...
, Hungarian football coach
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Lajos Détári
Lajos László Détári (born 24 April 1963) is a Hungarian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. At the height of his career (1984–1994), he was a well-respected player throughout Europe, winning "Player of the Year" ...
, retired Hungarian football player
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Lajos Sătmăreanu
Lajos Sătmăreanu (also Ludovic Sătmăreanu, hu, Szatmári Lajos, born 21 February 1944) is a former Romanian football player of Hungarian ethnicity.
Club career
Lajos Sătmăreanu, nicknamed '' Facchetti of the Carpathians'' was born on 2 ...
, former Romanian football player
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Lajos Tichy
Lajos Tichy (21 March 1935 – 6 January 1999), nicknamed "The Nation's Bomber", was a Hungarian footballer. He is the most prolific goalscorer in total matches in recorded history according to RSSSF with over 1912 goals scored in over 1301 m ...
, Hungarian footballer
In art:
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Lajos Csordák, Hungarian/Slovak painter
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Lajos Markos
Lajos Markos (1917–1993) was a Hungarian-American artist. He trained at the Royal Academy of Budapest.
Career
Markos came to the United States following World War II and worked as a portrait painter in New York City, painting celebrities suc ...
, Hungarian American painter
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Lajos Koltai
Lajos Koltai, ASC, HSC, (born 2 April 1946) is a Hungarian cinematographer and film director best known for his work with legendary Hungarian director István Szabó, and Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore. He was nominated for an Academy ...
, Hungarian cinematographer and film director
In Hungarian literature:
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Lajos BÃró
Lajos BÃró (; born Lajos Blau; 22 August 1880 – 9 September 1948) was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s.
Life
He was born in Nagyvárad, Kingdom of Hunga ...
, Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
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Lajos Egri
Lajos N. Egri (June 4, 1888 – February 7, 1967) was a Hungarian-American playwright and teacher of creative writing. He is the author of ''The Art of Dramatic Writing'', which is widely regarded as one of the best works on the subject of playw ...
, author of ''The Art of Dramatic Writing''
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Lajos Hevesi
Lőwy Hevesi Lajos, or Ludwig Hevesi (December 20, 1843, Heves, Hungary – February 17, 1910, Vienna) was a Hungarian journalist and writer.
He studied medicine and classical philology in Budapest and Vienna, but soon turned to writing, and as ...
, Jewish Hungarian journalist and author
In chess:
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Lajos Portisch
Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik". One of the strongest non-Soviet players from the early 1960s into the late 1980s, he participated ...
, Hungarian chess player
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Lajos Steiner
Lajos Steiner (14 June 1903, in Nagyvárad ( Oradea) – 22 April 1975, in Sydney) was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master.
Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia,(née Schwarz) ...
, Hungarian chess player
In other fields:
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Lajos Bárdos
Lajos Bárdos (1 October 1899 – 18 November 1986) was a composer, conductor, music theorist, and professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, Hungary, where he had previously studied under Albert Siklós and Zoltán Kodà ...
, Hungarian composer and professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
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Lajos Pósa, Hungarian mathematician
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Lajos Werkner
Lajos Werkner (23 October 1883 – 12 November 1943) was a Hungarian Olympic champion sabre fencer.
Early and personal life
Werkner was born in Budapest, Hungary, and was Jewish. Werkner was educated as a mechanical engineer.
Fencing career ...
(1883–1943), Hungarian 2x Olympic champion saber fencer
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Zoltán Lajos Bay
Zoltán Lajos Bay (July 24, 1900 in Gyulavári – October 4, 1992 in Washington, D.C.)"Fizikai Szemle 1999/5 - Zsolt Bor: OPTICS BY HUNGARIANS" (with Zoltán Bay), József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, 199KFKI-Hungary-Bor/ref> was a Hu ...
, Hungarian physicist
See also
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Kossuth Lajos tér, a Metro station in Budapest
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Hungarian masculine given names