Kállay family is a Hungarian noble family. The family name derived from their estates at Nagy-Kalló, in Szabolcs, and they claimed descent from the Hungarian Balogh-Semjén genus (

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), which colonized the counties of

Borsod Borsod was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The capital of the county was Miskolc. After World War II, the county was merged with the Hungarian parts of Abaúj-Torna County and Zemplén counties to form Borsod-Aba ...

, Szabolcs, and Szatmár, at the close of the 9th century. János Kállay de Nagy-Kálló was given the title Count by Hungarian Queen

Maria Theresa Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was the ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position suo jure, in her own right. She was the ...

in 1778, but the comital line became extinct.Magyar Kancelláriai Levéltár – Acta generalia – 1778 – N°. 1224 * Béni Kállay de Nagykálló (; 1839 – 1903), Austro-Hungarian statesman * Tibor Kállay de Nagykálló (1881–1964), Hungarian politician * Miklós Kállay de Nagykálló (1887, Nyíregyháza – 1967, New York City), Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary during World War II *

András Kállay-Saunders András Kállay-Saunders (born January 28, 1985), also known as Kállay Saunders, is a Hungarian-American singer, songwriter and record producer. He represented Hungary in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark with the song " ...

(born 1985), Hungarian-American singer, songwriter, and record producer

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