Lajos () is a Hungarian masculine

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. People named Lajos include: Hungarian monarchs: * Lajos I, 1326-1382 (ruled 1342-1382) * Lajos II, 1506-1526 (ruled 1516-1526) In Hungarian politics: *

Lajos Aulich Lajos Aulich (15 May 1792 – 6 October 1849) was the third Minister of War of the Hungarian State. Originally a professional soldier and lieutenant colonel in the Austrian Army, during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 however, he sided wit ...

, second Minister of War of Hungary *

Lajos Batthyány Count Lajos Batthyány de Németújvár (; ; 10 February 1807 – 6 October 1849) was the first Prime Minister of Hungary. He was born in Pozsony (modern-day Bratislava) on 10 February 1807, and was executed by firing squad in Pest, Hungary, Pe ...

, first Prime Minister of Hungary * Count Lajos Batthyány de Németújvár, county head of Győr and Governor of Fiume * Lajos Dinnyés, Prime Minister of Hungary from 1947 to 1948 *

Lajos Kossuth Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (; ; ; ; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and governor-president of the Kingdom of Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, r ...

, Hungarian lawyer, politician and Regent of Hungary In football: *

Lajos Baróti Lajos Baróti (; 19 August 1914 – 23 December 2005) was a Hungarian association football, football player and manager. With eleven major titles he is one of the most outstanding coaches of his time. Career Baróti played from 1928 until 1946 ...

, coach of the Hungary national football team * Lajos Czeizler, Hungarian football coach *

Lajos Détári Lajos László Détári (born 24 April 1963) is a Hungarian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. At the height of his career (1984–1994), he was a well-respected player throughout Europe, winning "Player of the Year" ...

, retired Hungarian football player *

Lajos Sătmăreanu Lajos Sătmăreanu (also known as Ludovic Sătmăreanu, , born 21 February 1944) is a Romanian former football player of Hungarian ethnicity. Club career Lajos Sătmăreanu, nicknamed '' Facchetti of the Carpathians'' was born on 21 February 19 ...

, former Romanian football player *

Lajos Tichy Lajos Tichy (21 March 1935 – 6 January 1999), nicknamed "The Nation's Bomber", was a Hungarian footballer who played as a forward. He is the most prolific goalscorer in total matches in recorded history according to RSSSF with over 1917 ...

, Hungarian footballer In art: * Lajos Csordák, Hungarian/Slovak painter *

Lajos Lázár Lajos Lázár (December 2, 1885 – June 2, 1936) was a Hungarian film director and producer active during the silent and early sound era.Bolton & Wright p.53 He was born in Nagybánya (now Baia Mare), then in Austria-Hungary and now in Romania ...

, Hungarian film director * Lajos Markos, Hungarian American painter *

Lajos Koltai Lajos Koltai, ASC, HSC, (born 2 April 1946) is a Hungarian cinematographer and film director, best known for his work with directors István Szabó and Giuseppe Tornatore. His work in '' Malèna'' earned him a nomination for the Academy Awa ...

, Hungarian cinematographer and film director In Hungarian literature: *

Lajos Bíró Lajos Bíró (; born Lajos Blau; 22 August 1880 – 9 September 1948) was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. Life He was born in Nagyvárad, Kingdom of Hunga ...

, Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter *

Lajos Egri Lajos N. Egri (June 4, 1888 – February 7, 1967) was a Hungarian-American playwright and teacher of creative writing. He is the author of ''The Art of Dramatic Writing'', which is widely regarded as one of the best works on the subject of play ...

, author of ''The Art of Dramatic Writing'' *

Lajos Hevesi Lőwy Hevesi Lajos, or Ludwig Hevesi (December 20, 1843, Heves, Hungary – February 17, 1910, Vienna) was a Hungarian journalist and writer. He studied medicine and classical philology in Budapest and Vienna, but soon turned to writing, and as o ...

, Jewish Hungarian journalist and author In chess: *

Lajos Portisch Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik". One of the strongest players from the early 1960s into the late 1980s, he participated in twelve c ...

, Hungarian chess player *

Lajos Steiner Lajos Steiner (14 June 1903, in Nagyvárad ( Oradea) – 22 April 1975, in Sydney) was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master. Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia (née Schwarz) ...

, Hungarian chess player In other fields: *

Lajos Bárdos Lajos Bárdos (1 October 1899 – 18 November 1986) was a composer, conductor, music theorist, and professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, Hungary, where he had previously studied under Albert Siklós and Zoltán Ko ...

, Hungarian composer and professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music * Lajos Pósa, Hungarian mathematician *

Lajos Werkner Lajos Werkner (23 October 1883 – 12 November 1943) was a Hungary, Hungarian Olympic champion sabre fencing (sport), fencer. Early and personal life Werkner was born in Budapest, Hungary, and was Jewish. Werkner was educated as a mechanical e ...

(1883–1943), Hungarian 2x Olympic champion saber fencer *

Zoltán Lajos Bay Zoltán Lajos Bay (July 24, 1900 in Gyulavári – October 4, 1992 in Washington, D.C.)"Fizikai Szemle 1999/5 - Zsolt Bor: OPTICS BY HUNGARIANS" (with Zoltán Bay), József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, 199KFKI-Hungary-Bor/ref> was a ...

, Hungarian physicist