Lengyel is a Hungarian surname (meaning
Pole
Pole may refer to:
Astronomy
*Celestial pole, the projection of the planet Earth's axis of rotation onto the celestial sphere; also applies to the axis of rotation of other planets
*Pole star, a visible star that is approximately aligned with the ...
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* Árpád Lengyel
Árpád Lengyel (4 September 1915 – 30 April 1993) was a Hungarian swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Kaposvár and died in Edgewater, New Jersey, United States.
In the 1936 Olympics he won a bronze ...
, Hungarian swimmer
* Balázs Lengyel, Hungarian literary critic
* Balázs Lengyel, Hungarian fencer
* Cornel Lengyel
Cornel Adam Lengyel (January 2, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American poet, historian, playwright and translator. He received the Maxwell Anderson Award in 1950 for his play ''The Atom Clock''.
What would a writer convey through his wor ...
, American poet
* Dániel Lengyel, Hungarian footballer
* Félix Lengyel, Canadian Twitch
Twitch may refer to:
Biology
* Muscle contraction
** Convulsion, rapid and repeated muscle contraction and relaxation
** Fasciculation, a small, local, involuntary muscle contraction
** Myoclonic twitch, a jerk usually caused by sudden muscle co ...
streamer and former professional Overwatch
''Overwatch'' is a multimedia franchise centered on a series of online multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) video games developed by Blizzard Entertainment: '' Overwatch'' released in 2016, and ''Overwatch 2'' released in 2022. Both games f ...
player
* Gyula Lengyel, Hungarian politician
* Imre Lengyel, Hungarian diver
* Jack Lengyel
Jack Robert Lengyel (born March 4, 1935) is a software executive and former American football coach, lacrosse coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the College of Wooster from 1966 to 1970 and at Mars ...
, American football coach
* Joseph L. Lengyel, United States Air Force officer
* Levente Lengyel
Levente Lengyel (13 June 1933 – 18 August 2014) was a Hungarian chess player, who gained the Grandmaster title in 1964.
Background
Lengyel gained the title of International Master in 1962 and became a Grandmaster in 1964.
His final publi ...
, Hungarian chess player
* Melchior Lengyel
Melchior Lengyel (born Menyhért Lebovics; hu, Lengyel Menyhért; 12 January 1880 – 23 October 1974) was a Hungarian writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter.
Biography
Lengyel was born Menyhért Lebovics in Balmazújváros, Hungary. He st ...
, Hungarian writer
* Olga Lengyel Olga Lengyel (19 October 1908 – 15 April 2001) was a Hungarian Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, who later wrote about her experiences in her book ''Five Chimneys''. She was the only member of her immediate family to su ...
, Hungarian author and Holocaust survivor
* Roman Lengyel, Czech footballer
* Zoltán Lengyel
Zoltán Lengyel (born 17 July 1960) is a Hungarian politician and member of the National Assembly (MP) for Sárbogárd, Fejér County Constituency VI from 2002 to 2009, when he resigned.
Biography
He graduated from Temesvári Pelbárt Francisca ...
, Hungarian politician
References
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Hungarian-language surnames