The following are people who were either born/raised or have lived for a significant period of time in Bács-Kiskun.

The arts

Art

Ede Telcs Eduard "Ede" Telcs was a Hungarian sculptor, and medallist; born at Baja, Hungary on 12 May 1872; died 1948 in Budapest. At the age of twelve he went to Budapest and studied decorative art, but he soon left that city for Vienna, where he was edu ...

sculptor

Film

Kálmán Latabár Kálmán Latabár (1902–1970) was a Hungarian comedian and film actor, perhaps the country's most popular comic in the post-war years. "Latyi" reached his peak popularity during the war years and in the early days of Hungarian television, d ...

actor,

comedian A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations while the person or a ...

Literature

József Katona József Katona (11 November 1791, Kecskemét – 16 April 1830, Kecskemét) was a Hungarian playwright and poet, creator of the Hungarian historical tragedy ''Bánk bán''. Biography József Katona was born and died in Kecskemét. He studi ...

author * Ferenc Móra novelist * Sándor Petőfi Hungarian national poet * Kálmán Tóth poet

Music

* Zoltán Kodály

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist and philosopher *

Emma Sándor Emma Sándor (17 March 1863 Baja – 22 November 1958 Budapest) was a Hungarian composer, folklorist, and translator. Her brother was Pál Sándor, a member of parliament. Life Her father was merchant Móric Schlesinger and her mother Sar ...

composer, wife of Zoltán Kodály

Theater

László Kelemen László Kelemen (born in Szőny, Hungary, 4 March 1958) is a Hungarian attorney and writer. Professional career László Kelemen was awarded a degree in law from the Faculty of Law of the Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd Uni ...

president of the first Hungarian Theater

Aviation and space exploration

* Béla Magyari cosmonaut

Business

Exploration

Military

* András Gáspár Hungarian general *

Lázár Mészáros General Lázár Mészáros ''(English: Lazarus Mészáros)'' (20 February 1796 in Baja – 16 November 1858 in Eywood), was the Minister of War during the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. Biography He was born into a noble family of landowners. Hi ...

Hungary's first Minister of War * István Türr

Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( , ;In his native Ligurian language, he is known as ''Gioxeppe Gaibado''. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as ''Jousé'' or ''Josep''. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patr ...

's general

Public office

László Berkecz László () is a Hungarian male given name and surname after the King-Knight Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary (1077–1095). It derives from Ladislav, a variant of Vladislav. Other versions are Lessl or Laszly. The name has a history of being freq ...

mayor of

Soltvadkert Soltvadkert (german: Wadkert; hr, Vakier; yi, וואדקערט) is a town in Bács-Kiskun county in Hungary with approximately 8,000 inhabitants. The former name of the town is ''Vadkert''. It is surrounded by several areas of the Kiskunság Na ...

* Sándor Font member of the National Assembly

Science and medicine

József Bayer József () is a Hungarian language, Hungarian masculine given name. It is the Hungarian name equivalent to Joseph. Notable people bearing this name include: * József Braun (also known as József Barna; 1901–1943), Hungarian Olympic football ...

member of

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its ma ...

Jenő Ernst Jenő () is a Hungarian male given name, equivalent to Eugene. In Austria and Germany the name is often simplified to Jenö (which in Hungarian is a shorter vowel) and pronounced as German umlaut ö. Jenő is also the legendary founder of one of H ...

doctor,

biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual cell, a multicellular organism, or a community of interacting populations. They usually specialize in ...

, member of

Dénes Jánossy Dénes is a Hungarian male given name, the equivalent of Denis in English and can sometimes stand for or replace the feminine version of Den(n)is, namely ''Denise''. As with many given names, it also transitioned into a surname in the Middle Ages. ...

mailing member of

Dezső Miskolczy Dezső is a Hungarian given male name, the Hungarian form of Desiderius. It may refer to: People * Dezső Bánffy, Hungarian politician * Dezső Ernster, Hungarian opera singer *Dezső Földes, Hungarian 2x Olympic champion saber fencer * Dezső ...

explorer of the mental disease, member of