György () is a Hungarian version of the name ''

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''. Some notable people with this given name: * György Alexits (1899–1978), Hungarian mathematician * György Almásy (1867–1933), Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer, father of

László Almásy László Adolf Ede György Mária Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós (; ; 22 August/3 November 1895 – 22 March 1951) was a Hungarian Aristocracy (class), aristocrat, motorist, desert exploration, desert explorer, aviator, Scouting, ...

* György Apponyi (1808–1899), Hungarian politician * György Gordon Bajnai (born 1968),

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(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. He was colloquially known as Bálint gazda (lit. ...

(originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian

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, 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 * '' Somewhere in Europe'' (1948) * '' The Land Is Ours'' (1951) * '' West Zone'' (1952) * '' Leila and Gábor'' (1956) * '' Adventur ...

(1921–2013), Hungarian film and television actor * György Békésy (1899–1972), 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, acco ...

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 ...

(1747–1811), Hungarian playwright and poet * György Bródy (1908–1967), Hungarian water polo goalkeeper, 2x Olympic champion *

György Bulányi György P. Bulányi (Budapest, 9 January 1919 – Budapest, June 6, 2010) was a Piarist priest, teacher, and leader of the Bokor Catholic youth discipleship movements in Croatia and Hungary which faced strong suppression from the Hungarian com ...

(1919–2010), Hungarian a

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priest, teacher, and leader * György Carabelli (1787–1842), Hungarian dentist *

György Csányi György Csányi (7 March 1922 – 13 December 1978) was a Hungarian athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres. He competed for Hungary at the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland Finland, officially the Republ ...

(1922–1978), 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 ...

(born 1948), Hungarian actor * György Csesznek, Hungarian aristocrat *

György Csordás György Csordás (6 October 1928 – 9 May 2000) was a freestyle swimmer from Hungary, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1948.György Czakó György Czakó (11 July 1933 – 9 February 2023) was a Hungarian figure skater. He was a three-time (1951, 1952, 1954) Hungarian national champion. He represented Hungary at the 1952 Winter Olympics where he placed 12th. He was the father of ...

(1933–2023), 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 ...

(1921–1994), Hungarian virtuoso pianist *

György Dózsa György Dózsa (or ''György Székely'', Romanian: ''Gheorghe Doja''; – 20 July 1514) was a Székely man-at-arms from Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary who led a peasants' revolt against the kingdom's landed nobility during the reign ...

(c. 1470–1514), Székely

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from

Transylvania Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and ...

* György Enyedi (geographer) (1930–2012), 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 ...

(1910–2006), Hungarian-born poet, writer and translator *

György Fehér György Fehér (12 February 1939 – 15 July 2002) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His film ''Passion (1998 film), Szenvedély'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. He was also a pro ...

(1939–2002), 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. Early life and ancestry He was the offspring from the Hungarian noble ...

(1815–1883), a Hungarian politician * György Fráter (1482–1551), Croatian nobleman, Pauline monk and Hungarian statesman * György Garics (born 1984), Austrian football defender of Hungarian and Slovakian Croat roots *

György Gedó György Gedó (born 23 April 1949) is a retired Hungarian light-flyweight boxer. He competed in the 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1972. He was the European light-flyweight champion in 1969 and 1971.light flyweight boxer * György Gerendás (born 1954), Hungarian former water polo player *

György Gurics György Gurics (27 January 1929 – 10 September 2013) was a Hungarian wrestler. He was born in Dunapentele in Fejér County. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling from 1952. He won a gold medal in Greco-Roman Wrestling at ...

(1929–2013), Hungarian wrestler * György Gyimesi (born 1980), Slovak politician * György Hajós (1912–1972), Hungarian mathematician * György Hevesy (1885–1966), Hungarian radiochemist and awarded the

Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry () is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outst ...

* György Horkai (born 1954), Hungarian former water polo player * György Káldy (1573–1634), Hungarian Jesuit and Bible translator * György Károly (1953–2018), Hungarian poet and writer * György Kárpáti (1935–2020), Hungarian former water polo player *

György Keleti György Keleti (18 May 1946 – 13 September 2020) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Defence A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part o ...

(1946–2020), Hungarian politician, who served as

Minister of Defence A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and military forces, found in states where the government is divid ...

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 * List ...

(born 1956), Hungarian former water polo player *

György Klapka György (Móric) 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 National Assembly (Hungary), Hungaria ...

(1820–1892), Hungarian general * György Klein (1925–2016), Hungarian–Swedish microbiologist and public intellectual *

György Kolonics György "Kolo" Kolonics (4 June 1972 – 15 July 2008) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who won two gold and two bronze medals at four Summer Olympics. He also won a record fifteen gold medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. He die ...

(1972–2008), Hungarian sprint canoeist * György Konrád (1933–2019), Hungarian novelist and essayist *

György Kulin György Kulin (28 January 1905 – 22 April 1989) was a Hungarian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He was born in Nagyszalonta and died in Budapest. He discovered 21 asteroids and is a co-discoverer of the comet C/1942 C1 (Whipple ...

(1905–1989), Hungarian astronomer *

György Kurtág György Kurtág (; born 19 February 1926) is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. According to ''Grove Music Online'', with a style that draws on " Bartók, Webern and, to a lesser extent, Stravinsky, his work is c ...

(born 1926), Hungarian composer *

György Kutasi György Kutasi (September 16, 1910 – June 29, 1977) 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 match as goalkeeper. See also * Hungary ...

(1910–1977), Hungarian water polo player *

György Lahner György Lahner (also ''Láner'' or ''Láhner'', ; 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 Hungarian Revolution o ...

(1795–1849), 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 music, avant-garde composers in the latter half of the ...

(1923–2006), Hungarian composer *

György Lukács György Lukács (born Bernát György Löwinger; ; ; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and Aesthetics, aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an inter ...

(1885–1971), 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 Lepton number#Lepton flavor conservation, law of lepton flavor conse ...

(1927–2002), Hungarian physicist, astrophysicist, science historian and professor *

György Matolcsy György Huba Matolcsy (born 18 July 1955, Budapest) is a Hungary, Hungarian politician and economist, current governor of the Hungarian National Bank (MNB). He also served as Minister of Finance (Hungary), Minister of National Economy from 2000 ...

(born 1955), Hungarian politician and economist, current governor of the

Hungarian National Bank The Hungarian National Bank ( , MNB) is the central bank of Hungary and as such part of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). It was established in 1924 as a successor entity of the Austro-Hungarian Bank, under the economic assistance ...

György Mitró György Mitró (6 March 1930 – 4 January 2010) was a Hungarian swimming (sport), swimmer and Olympic medalist. He participated at the 1948 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 x 200 me ...

(1930–2010), Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist *

György Moldova György Moldova (12 March 1934 – 4 June 2022) was the author of more than seventy books in Hungary that have collectively sold more than 13 million copies, more than any other Hungarian writer. He is best known for his richly detailed sociolo ...

(1934–2022), Hungarian author * György Oláh (1927–2017), Hungarian and American chemist and awarded the

* György Orbán (born 1947), Romanian-born Hungarian composer *

György Orth György Orth (30 April 1901 – 11 January 1962) was a Hungarian football player and manager. As well as being involved in football in his homeland, he also managed in Italy, Chile, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Portugal. One of best foot ...

(1901–1962), Hungarian footballer and manager * György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist * György Petri (1943–2000), Hungarian poet * György Piller (1899–1960), Hungarian Olympic and world champion fencer *

György Pólya György () is a Hungarian version of the name '' George''. Some notable people with this given name: * György Alexits (1899–1978), Hungarian mathematician * György Almásy (1867–1933), Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnog ...

(1887–1985), Hungarian mathematician * I György Rákóczi (1593–1648),

Prince of Transylvania The Prince of Transylvania (, , , Fallenbüchl 1988, p. 77.) was the head of state of the Principality of Transylvania from the late-16th century until the mid-18th century. John Sigismund Zápolya was the first to adopt the title in 1 ...

from 1630 until 1648 * II György Rákóczi (1621–1660), 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 ...

(1912–2005), Hungarian pianist * György Sándor (footballer) (born 1984), 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 ...

(1912–1993), 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 majo ...

(1922–1999), 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 ...

(born 1946), Hungarian dramatist, novelist and essayist * György Szabados (1939–2011), Hungarian jazz pianist *

György Szepesi György Szepesi (né Friedländer; 5 February 1922 – 25 July 2018) was a Hungarian radio personality, journalist and sports executive. In 2006, Szepesi earned the record for the longest career as a sports commentator. Early life Szepesi was b ...

(1922–2018), Hungarian radio personality and sports executive *

György Szondy György Szondy (1500 – 9 July 1552) was a Hungarian Kingdom, Hungarian soldier and the Captain (land), captain of Drégely Castle. He was a respected soldier, even by his Turkish people, Turkish foes, whose recognition can be seen by his bu ...

(died 1552), 16th century Hungarian hero * György Zala (sculptor) (1858–1937), Hungarian sculptor * George Worth, born György Woittitz (1915–2006), Hungarian-born American Olympic medalist fencer *

George Soros George Soros (born György Schwartz; August 12, 1930) is an American investor and philanthropist. , he has a net worth of US$7.2 billion, Note that this site is updated daily. having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundat ...

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