Farkasréti Cemetery or Farkasrét Cemetery ( hu, Farkasréti temető) is one of the most famous cemeteries in

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. It opened in 1894 and is noted for its extensive views of the city (several people wanted it more to be a resort area than a cemetery). It comprises tombs of numerous Hungarian notables and it is the most preferred burial place among actors, actresses and other artists (opera singers, musicians, painters, sculptors, architects, writers, poets). The cemetery is also home to the tombs of several scientists, academicians and athletes. Graves are often decorated with noteworthy sculptures. It was provided with parks in the 1950s, when it took on its present appearance and extent. The mortuary hall and the new chapel were built in the 1980s to the plans of

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. In the

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era, funerals were restricted in

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, so it became the main cemetery for those who couldn't get one. It is located in

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away from

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. The oldest grave that is still located in its original place is that of the mechanical engineer

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, the designer of the

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in Budapest and the original

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Notable interments

* Vilmos Aba Novák, painter *

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, philosopher * Péter Bacsó, film director and screenwriter * Ervin Baktay, orientalist *

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, inventor *

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, composer, the sculpture made by

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, chess player and chess composer *

Dénes Berinkey Dénes Berinkey (17 October 1871 – 25 June 1944) was a Hungarian jurist and politician who served as 21st Prime Minister of Hungary in the regime of Mihály Károlyi for two months in 1919. On 20 March 1919 the French presented the Vix Not ...

, Prime Minister * Aurél Bernáth, painter and poet *

Sándor Bíró Sándor Bíró (19 August 1911 – 7 October 1988Profile
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, footballer *

, sculptor *

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, footballer, member of the Golden Team *Csinszka, Endre Ady's wife *

Tamás Cseh Tamás Cseh (22 January 1943 in Budapest – 7 August 2009 in Budapest) was a Hungarian composer, singer and actor. He won the Kossuth Prize The Kossuth Prize ( hu, Kossuth-díj) is a state-sponsored award in Hungary, named after the Hungarian p ...

, singer and songwriter * Zsuzsa Cserháti, singer *

János Csonka János Csonka (22 January 1852 in Szeged – 27 October 1939 in Budapest) was a Hungarian engineer, the co-inventor of the carburetor for the stationary engine with Donát Bánki, patented on 13 February 1893. Life Csonka, self-educated in ...

, inventor *

Béla Czóbel Béla Czóbel (4 September 1883 – 30 January 1976) was a Hungarian painter, known for his association with The Eight in the early 20th century in Budapest. They were known for introducing Post-Impressionist styles into Hungary, in addition to ...

, painter * Ferenc Deák, footballer *

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, inventor of the Dobos Cake, a Hungarian speciality *

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, footballer *

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, cinematographer *

Pál Engel Pál Engel (27 February 1938 – 21 August 2001) was a Hungarian medievalist historian and archivist, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He served as General Director of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1996 ...

, historian *

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, director *

Sári Fedák Sári Fedák (Born Sarolta Klára Mária Fedák; 27 September 1879, Beregszász present-day Berehove, Ukraine – 05 May 1955, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian actress and singer, one of the most well-known prima donnas of her time. Accordin ...

, actress *

István Fekete István Fekete (25 January 1900, Gölle, Austria-Hungary – 23 June 1970, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian writer. He wrote several youth novels and animal stories. He is perhaps best known for his youth novel ''Tüskevár'' ("Thorn Castle", 1 ...

, writer *

János Ferencsik János Ferencsik (18 January 190712 June 1984) was a Hungarian conductor. Ferencsik was born in Budapest; he actively played music even as a very young boy. He took violin lessons and taught himself to play the organ. He studied at the Natio ...

, conductor *

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, communist agent and hidden victim of show trials * Annie Fischer, pianist * Miklós Gábor, actor *

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, seven-times olympic champion fencer * Gyula Germanus, orientalist * Ernő Gerő, communist politician *

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, actress * Lisl Goldarbeiter-model *

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, Socialist Prime Minister *

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, writer of children's books * Pál Jávor, actor * Gyula Kabos, actor * Katalin Karády, actress, singer *

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, three-times olympic champion water polo player *

Lajos Kassák Lajos Kassák (March 21, 1887 – July 22, 1967) was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde, and occasional translator. He was among the first genuine working-class writers in Hungarian litera ...

, poet and painter *

Manyi Kiss Manyi Kiss (Born Margit Kiss; 12 March 1911 – 24 March 1971) was a Hungarian actress. Career She was born in Magyarlóna, Kolozs County, Hungary ''(now Luna de Sus, Romania)'', to Lajos Kiss and Zsuzsanna Nagy. She acted from 1926 in Cl ...

, actress *

Károly Kernstok Károly Kernstok (23 December 1873, in Budapest – 9 June 1940, in Budapest) is a Hungary, Hungarian painter. In the early twentieth century, he was known for being among the leading groups of Hungarian painters known as the "Neos" and The Eig ...

, painter * Kálmán Kittenberger, Africa researcher, naturalist * Zoltán Kocsis, pianist *

Zoltán Kodály Zoltán Kodály (; hu, Kodály Zoltán, ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music ed ...

, composer, the sculpture made by Pál Pátzai * János Kodolányi, writer *

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, olympic champion sprint canoeist *

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, documentary film director, war correspondent *

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, painter * János Koós, dance singer, parodist, actor *

Margit Kovács Margit Kovács (1902–1977) was a Hungarian ceramist and sculptor. Life Margit Kovács was born in Győr, Hungary on 30 November 1902. She originally wished to become a graphic artist but she grew interested in ceramics in the 1920s and wen ...

, ceramicist and sculptor * László Lajtha, composer *

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, actor *

, architect *

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, physicist * Istvan Medgyaszay, architect * Ágnes Nemes Nagy, poet *

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, writer *

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, writer * László Papp, three-times olympic champion boxer * János Pilinszky, poet *

Mátyás Rákosi Mátyás Rákosi (; born Mátyás Rosenfeld; 9 March 1892
– 5 February 1971) was a Hungarian

, Communist leader; now only his initials are visible to avoid vandalism * Éva Ruttkai, actress * Ferenc Sánta, writer * Zoltán Ozoray Schenker, Olympic fencing champion *

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, Prime Minister *

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, jazz guitarist *

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, Socialist leader *

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, singer * Árpád Székely, painter, artist *

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, conductor *

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, President *

Amerigo Tot Amerigo Tot (born Imre Tóth; 27 September 1909 – 13 December 1984) was a Hungarian sculptor and occasional actor. Born in Fehérvárcsurgó, Austria-Hungary he moved to Rome towards the end of the 1920s, where he lived for the rest of his l ...

(born Imre Tóth), sculptor and actor *

László Verebélÿ László Verebélÿ (27 August 1883, in Budapest – 22 November 1959, in Budapest) was a Hungarian university professor and electrical engineer. He worked in Hungary, Italy, Germany, Austria, England and the United States and did important wo ...

, electrical engineer *

Béla Volentik Béla Volentik (5 December 1907 – 27 October 1990) was a Hungarian footballer and football manager. He played for Nemzeti FC, Újpest, FC Lugano and for the Hungarian national team, capping once. He started his coaching career in Switzerlan ...

, footballer *

Sándor Weöres Sándor Weöres (; 22 June 1913 – 22 January 1989) was a Hungarian poet and author. Born in Szombathely, Weöres was brought up in the nearby village of Csönge. His first poems were published when he was fourteen, in the influential journ ...

, poet * József Zakariás, footballer, member of the Golden Team

Resources

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External links

Budapest Funeral Institute
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(with pictures) :''(The above pages are only in Hungarian.)''
Farkasréti Cemetery
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