Zoltán () is a Hungarian masculine

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...

. The name days for this name are 8 March and 23 June in Hungary, and 7 April in Slovakia. Zoltána is the feminine version.

Notable people

* Zoltán of Hungary * Zoltan Bathory, guitarist of heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch * Zoltán Lajos Bay *

Zoltán Berczik Zoltán Berczik (7 August 1937 – 11 January 2011) was a Hungarian table tennis player. In the late fifties he was ranked among the best European table tennis players and won, with his athletic play, the first two titles at the Table Tennis Eur ...

, six times European Champion in table-tennis. *

Zoltán Czibor Zoltán Czibor (23 August 1929 – 1 September 1997) was a Hungarian footballer who played for several Hungarian clubs, including Ferencváros and Budapest Honvéd, and the Hungary national team before joining CF Barcelona. Czibor played as a ...

* Zoltán Czukor *

Zoltán Dani Zoltán Dani ( hu, Dani Zoltán, sr-Cyrl, Золтан Дани; 23 July 1956) is a former officer of the Yugoslav army and former commander of the 3rd battery of the 250th Missile Brigade, which shot down a NATO F-117 Nighthawk near the vil ...

Zoltán Gera (actor) Zoltán Gera (August 19, 1923 – November 7, 2014) was a Hungarian actor, honored with being chosen as an Actor of the Hungarian Nation, the Kossuth Prize, and the Meritorious Artist Award of Hungary. He has starred in 115 movies (according to ...

* Zoltán Gera (footballer) – Fulham F.C. * Zoltán Halmay *

Zoltán Horváth (disambiguation) Zoltán Horváth is the name of: * (born 1966), Swiss animation film director * Zoltán Horváth (basketball) (1979–2009), Hungarian basketball player * Zoltán Horváth (equestrian) (born 1954), Hungarian equestrian * Zoltán Horváth (fence ...

– several people * Zoltan Istvan – American writer and futurist *

Zoltan Kaszas ''The native form of this personal name is'' Kaszás Zoltán. ''This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.'' Zoltan Kaszas is a Hungarian-American comedian and actor. Kaszas was born in Budapest, Hungary, May 23rd 1987 a ...

– American comedian *

Zoltán Kammerer Zoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2 ...

* Zoltán Kocsis, pianist, conductor, and composer * Zoltán Kodály, composer, creator of the Kodály-method. * Zoltán Korda *

Zoltán Kovács (ice hockey) Zoltán Kovács (born 2 January 1962) is a Hungarian ice hockey coach and administrator. He joined the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation as a secretary in 1994, then served as its general secretary from 1998 to 2017, and has served as its vice-pr ...

, ice hockey coach and administrator, recipient of the Paul Loicq Award * Zoltán Lajos Bay, physicist. *

Zoltán Latinovits Zoltán Latinovits (9 September 1931, in Budapest – 4 June 1976, in Balatonszemes) was a Hungarian actor. Early life His mother divorced his father Oszkár Latinovits in 1941 and married István Frenreisz, a medical doctor, with whom she had ...

, Hungarian actor, director. * Zoltán Magyar – 2-time Olympic gold medalist in pommel horse gymnast. The ''Magyar spindle'' and the ''Magyar travel'' was named after him. *

Zoltán Meskó Zoltán Meskó de Széplak (12 March 1883, Baja – 10 June 1959, Nagybaracska) was a leading Hungarian Nazi during the 1930s. He led his own Nazi movement during the early 1930s but faded from the political scene when Hungary became a member ...

– Nazi politician. * Zoltan Mesko (American football) *

Zoltán Mujahid Zoltán Mujahid (born 8 August 1979) is a Pakistani-Hungarian singer and music teacher. He is most notable for coming in 10th place in the first series of ''Megasztár'' and participating in '' A Dal 2015''. Personal life Zoltán Mujahid was bor ...

Zoltan Pali Zoltan Pali (born 1960) is an architect from Los Angeles, California. Early life Zoltan Pali was born May 28, 1960 at the French Hospital in Chinatown, Los Angeles, California to Emery Pali and Maria zalacsyPali. His parents were immigrants f ...

, American architect based in Los Angeles, California *

Zoltán Ozoray Schenker Zoltán Ozoray Schenker (13 October 1880 – 25 August 1966) was a Hungarian Olympic sabre and foil fencer, who won three Olympic medals. Early life Schenker was born in Váradszentmárton, Hungary (now Sânmartin, Bihor County, Romania), a ...

– Hungarian Olympic champion saber fencer *

Zoltán Sebescen Zoltán Sebescen (Hungarian: Sebestyén Zoltán) (born 1 October 1975) is a German former professional footballer who played as a right-back or right-winger. Club career Sebescen was born in Ehingen. He started his career at Stuttgarter Kickers ...

– Hungarian-German footballer and coach *

Zoltan Somogyi Mercury is a functional logic programming language made for real-world uses. The first version was developed at the University of Melbourne, Computer Science department, by Fergus Henderson, Thomas Conway, and Zoltan Somogyi, under Somogyi's sup ...

– creator of the

Mercury Mercury commonly refers to: * Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun * Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg * Mercury (mythology), a Roman god Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to: Companies * Merc ...

programming language * Zoltán Szabó (disambiguation), several people *

Zoltán Takács (musician) Takács Zoltán (born December 17, 1979) is Hungarian musician and record producer, best known internationally as the keyboardist of the Hungarian alternative rock band Heaven Street Seven and the producer of Ivan & The Parazol's ''Mama Don't Y ...

(born 1980), Hungarian musician and record producer *

Zoltán Takács (footballer) Zoltán Takács (born 26 November 1983, in Budapest) is a Hungarian football player who currently plays for Pátyi SE. Club career Budapest Honvéd Takács spent the first four and a half years of his career at Budapest Honvéd FC where he ...

(born 1983), Hungarian footballer * Zoltán Takács (toxinologist), Hungarian-born toxinologist and tropical adventurer * Zoltan Teglas – front man of the California-based band ''

Ignite To ignite is the first step of firelighting. Ignite may also refer to: Music *Ignite (band), a melodic hardcore band from Orange County, California * ''Ignite'' (Econoline Crush album), 2007 * ''Ignite'' (Shihad album), 2010 * "Ignite" (Eir Aoi s ...

'' * Zoltán Tildy – president of Hungary after World War II *

Zoltán Varga (disambiguation) Zoltán Varga may refer to: * Zoltán Varga (chess player) (born 1970), Hungarian chess grandmaster *Zoltán Varga (footballer, born 1945) (1945–2010), Hungarian footballer *Zoltán Varga (footballer, born 1977), Hungarian footballer * Zoltán Va ...

* Zoltán Zana aka

Ganxsta Zolee Ganxsta ("Döglégy") Zolee (birthname Zana Zoltán, nickname Blowfly) is a Hungarian rapper, drummer, performing artist and actor. Biography Zana Zoltán was born in Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hun ...

Hungarian musician. * Zoltan is a village in

Ghidfalău Ghidfalău ( hu, Gidófalva, Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in Covasna County, Transylvania, Romania composed of four villages: *Angheluș / Angyalos *Fotoș / Fotosmartonos *Ghidfalău / Gidófalva *Zoltan / Érfalvazoltán It formed p ...

Commune, Covasna County, Romania * ''Zoltán'' is the Hungarian name for Mihai Viteazu village, Saschiz Commune, Mureș County, Romania, formerly called ''Zoltan'' in Romanian.

Films

* ''

Zoltan, Hound of Dracula ''Dracula's Dog'' (U.K. title: ''Zoltan... Hound of Dracula''; original working title: ''Hounds of Dracula'') is a 1977 American horror film starring Michael Pataki and José Ferrer. It revolves around a dog who is turned into a vampire by a membe ...

'', alternative title for ''Dracula's Dog'', a 1978 American horror film starring Michael Pataki and José Ferrer

Fictional characters

* Zoltan (''Dude, Where's My Car?'') * Zoltan, a tomato character in the animated television series ''Attack of the Killer Tomatoes'' * Zoltan, an alien race in the video game '' FTL: Faster Than Light'' * Zoltan, the name of a pet raven in Stephen King's novel '' The Gunslinger'' * Zoltan, a talking stuffed wolf character in the television series ''Young Dracula'' * Zoltan Akkanen, the main antagonist in the 2018 anime film ''

Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative is a Japanese animated mecha science fiction film produced by Sunrise and distributed by Shochiku. Released as part of the ''Gundam'' franchise, it is based on the 11th '' Gundam Unicorn'' novel, ''Phoenix Hunting''. It was directed by Toshikazu ...

'' * Zoltan Amadeus, a supervillain from the '' Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends'' episode "Attack of the Arachnoid" * Zoltan Grundy, a recurring character in the Disney Channel sitcom ''

A.N.T. Farm ''A.N.T. Farm'' is an American teen sitcom which originally aired on Disney Channel from May 6, 2011 to March 21, 2014. It first aired on May 6, 2011, as a special one-episode preview and continued as a regular series starting on June 17, 201 ...

'' * Zoltan Karpathy, a main character in the ''My Fair Lady'' musical * Zoltan Chivay, a recurring character from The Witcher novels and The Witcher (video game) series * Zoltan Mahany, a recurring character in the Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout

Other uses

Zoltan (hand gesture) Zoltan is a hand gesture in which a person has their hands stacked on top of each other in order to form a letter " Z". Originally used in the 2000 stoner film ''Dude, Where's My Car?'', the Zoltan hand gesture also became popular in 2012 with m ...

, a hand sign originally used by characters in ''Dude, Where's My Car?'', later used as a celebration by the Pittsburgh Pirates in Major League Baseball as well as by other athletes * Zoltan, a Fortuneteller-machine.

Notable people

Films

Fictional characters

Other uses

See also