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''. Some notable people with this given name: *

György Alexits György Alexits (5 January 1899 - 14 October 1978), born in Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-la ...

, as a Hungarian mathematician *

György Almásy György Ede Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós ( Felsőlendva (now Grad, Slovenia), 11 August 1867 – Graz, 23 September 1933) was a Hungarian Asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer. His son, László Almásy, was an aviator, ...

, Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer, father of

László Almásy László Ede Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós ( hu, Almásy László Ede; ; 22 August/3 November 1895 – 22 March 1951) was a Hungarian aristocrat, motorist, desert explorer, aviator, Scout-leader and sportsman who served as the ...

* György Apponyi, Hungarian politician * György Gordon Bajnai,

Prime Minister of Hungary The prime minister of Hungary ( hu, Magyarország miniszterelnöke) is the head of government of Hungary. The prime minister and the Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Parliament, to their political part ...

(2009-10) *

György Bálint György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 28 July 191921 June 2020) was a Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP. Biography Bálint's parents Braun Izidor and Koc ...

(originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian

horticulturist Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and no ...

, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP. *

György Bárdy György Bárdy (26 May 1921 – 27 May 2013) was a Hungarian film and television actor. Selected filmography * ''Valahol Európában'' (1948) * '' Nyugati övezet'' (1952) * ''Two Confessions'' (1957) * '' Pillar of Salt'' (1958) * ''A Few S ...

, Hungarian film and television actor * György Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, awarded the

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, accord ...

György Bessenyei ''György Bessenyei'' (1747–1811) was a Hungarian playwright and poet. Works * 1772 – Ágis tragédiája * 1777 – A magyar néző * 1777 – A filozófus * 1778 – Magyarság * 1779 – A holmi * 1781 – Egy magyar társaság iránt ...

, Hungarian playwright and poet * György Bródy, Hungarian water polo goalkeeper, 2x Olympic champion * György Bulányi, Hungarian a

Piarist The Piarists (), officially named the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools ( la, Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum), abbreviated SchP, is a religious order of clerics regular of the ...

priest, teacher, and leader * György Carabelli, Hungarian dentist * György Csányi, Hungarian athlete *

György Cserhalmi György Cserhalmi (born 17 February 1948, in Budapest) is a Hungarian actor. He graduated from the Actors Academy in 1971. He is also the founder of the Labdater Theatre in the Globe cultural centre. Employment *1971: Debrecen Csokonai Theat ...

, Hungarian actor * György Csesznek, Hungarian aristocrat * György Csordás, Hungarian freestyle swimmer * György Czakó, Hungarian figure skater *

György Cziffra Christian Georges Cziffra (; born Cziffra Krisztián György; 5 November 192115 January 1994) was a Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer. He is considered to be one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of the twentieth century. Among ...

, Hungarian virtuoso pianist * György Dózsa, Székely man-at-arms from

Transylvania Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Ap ...

György Enyedi (geographer) György Enyedi (25 August 1930 – 10 September 2012) was an economist and geographer who has played a major role in the long-term development of regional science. In the second part of the 20th century due to the rapid development of integrati ...

, Hungarian economist and geographer *

György Faludy György Faludy (September 22, 1910 – September 1, 2006; ), sometimes anglicized as George Faludy, was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator. Life Travels, vicissitudes, and remembrance Faludy completed his schooling in the Fasori Ev ...

, Hungarian-born poet, writer and translator * György Fehér, Hungarian film director *

György Festetics Count György László Festetics de Tolna (23 April 1815 – 12 February 1883) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister besides the King between 1867 and 1871. Family and ancestors He was the offspring from the Hungarian noble family ...

, a Hungarian politician * György Fráter, Croatian nobleman, Pauline monk and Hungarian statesman * György Garics, Austrian football defender of Hungarian and Slovakian Croat roots * György Gedó, Hungarian Olympic champion

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boxer *

György Gerendás György Gerendás (born 23 February 1954) is a Hungarian former water polo player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. See also * Hungary men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics * List o ...

, Hungarian former water polo player * György Gurics, Hungarian wrestler *

György Hajós György Hajós (February 21, 1912, Budapest – March 17, 1972, Budapest) was a Hungarian mathematician who worked in group theory, graph theory, and geometry.. Biography Hajós was born February 21, 1912, in Budapest; his great-grandfathe ...

, Hungarian mathematician * György Hevesy, Hungarian

radiochemist Radiochemistry is the chemistry of radioactive materials, where radioactive isotopes of elements are used to study the properties and chemical reactions of non-radioactive isotopes (often within radiochemistry the absence of radioactivity leads to ...

and awarded the

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György Horkai György Horkai (born 1 July 1954) is a Hungarian former water polo player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. See also * Hungary men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics * List of Olympic ...

, Hungarian former water polo player * György Káldy, Hungarian Jesuit and Bible translator * György Károly, Hungarian poet and writer * György Kárpáti, Hungarian former water polo player * György Keleti, Hungarian politician, who served as

Minister of Defence A defence minister or minister of defence is a cabinet official position in charge of a ministry of defense, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states. The role of a defence minister varies considerably from country to country; in som ...

György Kenéz György Kenéz (born 23 June 1956) is a Hungarian former water polo player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. See also * Hungary men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics * List of Olympic champions in men's water polo * L ...

, Hungarian former water polo player *

György Klapka György (Móric) Klapka (german: Georg Klapka; 7 April 182017 May 1892) was a Hungarian general. He was one of the most important Hungarian generals of the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848–1849, politician, member of the Hungarian Parlia ...

, Hungarian general * György Klein, Hungarian–Swedish microbiologist and public intellectual * György Kolonics, Hungarian sprint canoeist * György Konrád, Hungarian novelist and essayist * György Kulin, Hungarian astronomer *

György Kurtág György Kurtág (; born 19 February 1926) is a Hungarian classical composer and pianist. He was an academic teacher of piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1967, later also of chamber music, and taught until 1993. Biography Györ ...

, Hungarian composer *

György Kutasi György Kutasi (September 16, 1910 in Fiume – June 29, 1977 in Melbourne, Australia) was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Hungarian team which won the gold medal. He played one matc ...

, Hungarian water polo player *

György Lahner György Lahner (also ''Láner'' or ''Láhner'', german: Georg Lahner; 6 October 1795, in Necpál (present-day Necpaly, Slovakia) – 6 October 1849, in Arad) was a honvéd general in the Hungarian Army. He was executed for his part in the Hun ...

, Hungarian general *

György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century ...

, Hungarian composer *

György Lukács György Lukács (born György Bernát Löwinger; hu, szegedi Lukács György Bernát; german: Georg Bernard Baron Lukács von Szegedin; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, critic, and aesth ...

, Hungarian Marxist philosopher *

György Marx György Marx (25 May 1927 – 2 December 2002) was a Hungarian physicist, astrophysicist, science historian and professor. He discovered the lepton numbers and established the law of lepton flavor conservation. Life He was the first non-Briti ...

, Hungarian physicist, astrophysicist, science historian and professor *

György Matolcsy György Matolcsy (born 18 July 1955, Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and economist, current governor of the Hungarian National Bank (MNB). He also served as Minister of Economy (2000–2002) during the first cabinet of Viktor Orbán and ...

, Hungarian politician and economist, current governor of the

Hungarian National Bank The Hungarian National Bank ( hu, Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB)) is the central bank of Hungary and as such part of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). The Hungarian National Bank was established in 1924 and succeeded the Royal Hungarian St ...

György Mitró György Mitró (6 March 1930 – 4 January 2010) was a Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist. He participated at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 19 ...

, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist * György Moldova, Hungarian author * György Oláh, Hungarian and American chemist and awarded the

* György Orbán, Romanian-born Hungarian composer * György Orth, Hungarian footballer and manager * György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist *

György Petri György Petri (22 December 1943 – 16 July 2000) was a Hungarian poet. Childhood and youth He was born in 1943 to a multi-ethnic family in Budapest. After his father's death he was raised by his mother, grandparents and aunts. According to his ...

, Hungarian poet *

György Piller George Piller (born György Jekelfalussy-Piller) (June 19, 1899 – September 6, 1960) was an Olympic and world champion fencer from Hungary in the 1920s and 1930s who became an internationally respected world-class fencing master in Hungary and ...

, Hungarian Olympic and world champion fencer * György Pólya, Hungarian mathematician * I György Rákóczi,

Prince of Transylvania The Prince of Transylvania ( hu, erdélyi fejedelem, german: Fürst von Siebenbürgen, la, princeps Transsylvaniae, ro, principele TransilvanieiFallenbüchl 1988, p. 77.) was the head of state of the Principality of Transylvania from the last d ...

from 1630 until 1648 * II György Rákóczi, Hungarian nobleman,

from 1648 until 1660 *

György Sándor György Sándor (; 21 September 1912 – 9 December 2005) was a Hungarian pianist and writer. Early years Sándor was born in Budapest. He studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest under Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, and debuted as ...

, Hungarian pianist * György Sándor (footballer), Hungarian footballer *

György Sárosi György Sárosi (; 5 August 1912 – 20 June 1993) was a Hungarian footballer. Sárosi was a complete footballer renowned for his versatility and technique among other things, and he played in several positions for Ferencváros and the Hungary ...

, Hungarian footballer *

György Sebők György Sebők (November 2, 1922 – November 14, 1999) was a Hungarian-born American pianist and professor at the Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. He was known worldwide as a soloist with major ...

, Hungarian-born American pianist *

György Spiró György (George) Spiró (born 4 April 1946 in Budapest) is a dramatist, novelist and essayist who has emerged as one of post-war Hungary's most prominent literary figures. He is a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts. Life ...

, Hungarian dramatist, novelist and essayist *

György Szabados György Szabados (13 July 1939 – 10 June 2011) was a Hungarian jazz pianist, and is sometimes referred to as the "father" or "unofficial king" of the Hungarian free jazz movement since the 1960s. Biography Szabados was born in Budapest. ...

, Hungarian jazz pianist * György Szepesi, Hungarian radio personality and sports executive *

György Szondy György Szondy was a Hungarian soldier and the captain of Drégely Castle. He was a respected soldier, even by his Turkish foes, whose recognition can be seen by his burial by Hadim Ali Pasha with full military honours. Family Szondy's origi ...

, 16th century Hungarian hero * György Zala (sculptor), Hungarian sculptor * George Worth, born György Woittitz (1915–2006), Hungarian-born American Olympic medalist fencer *

George Soros George Soros ( name written in eastern order), (born György Schwartz, August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist. , he had a net worth of US$8.6 billion, Note that this site is updated daily. having donated mo ...

, born György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian-born American investor