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 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),

Prime Minister of Hungary The prime minister of Hungary () is the head of government of Hungary. The prime minister and the government of Hungary, Cabinet are collectively accountability, accountable for their policies and actions to the National Assembly (Hungary), Par ...

(2009-10) * György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian

horticulturist Horticulture (from ) is the art and science of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs and ornamental plants. Horticulture is commonly associated with the more professional and technical aspects of plant cultivation on a smaller and mo ...

, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP. * György Bárdy (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 (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 Piarist priest, teacher, and leader * György Carabelli (1787–1842), Hungarian dentist * György Csányi (1922–1978), Hungarian athlete * György Cserhalmi (born 1948), Hungarian actor * György Csesznek, Hungarian aristocrat * György Csordás (1928–2000), Hungarian freestyle swimmer * György Czakó (1933–2023), Hungarian figure skater * György Cziffra (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

man-at-arms A man-at-arms was a soldier of the High Medieval to Renaissance periods who was typically well-versed in the use of arms and served as a fully-armoured heavy cavalryman. A man-at-arms could be a knight, or other nobleman, a member of a kni ...

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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 (1910–2006), Hungarian-born poet, writer and translator * György Fehér (1939–2002), Hungarian film director * György Festetics (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 (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 (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 (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 (1972–2008), Hungarian sprint canoeist * György Konrád (1933–2019), Hungarian novelist and essayist * György Kulin (1905–1989), Hungarian astronomer * György Kurtág (born 1926), Hungarian composer * György Kutasi (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 (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 (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 (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 (1912–2005), Hungarian pianist * György Sándor (footballer) (born 1984), Hungarian footballer * György Sárosi (1912–1993), Hungarian footballer * György Sebők (1922–1999), Hungarian-born American pianist * György Spiró (born 1946), Hungarian dramatist, novelist and essayist * György Szabados (1939–2011), Hungarian jazz pianist * György Szepesi (1922–2018), Hungarian radio personality and sports executive * György Szondy (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

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