Hungarian Ancestry
- ️Wed Dec 17 2008
Hungarian Ancestry
LISTS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Adams | Actor | 13-Apr-1926 | 25-Sep-2005 | Maxwell Smart on Get Smart |
| Herb Alpert | Musician | 31-Mar-1935 | Tijuana Brass, Co-Founder, A&M Records | |
| Roland Arnall | Business | 29-Mar-1939 | 17-Mar-2008 | Ameriquest billionaire |
| Oksana Baiul | Figure Skating | 16-Nov-1977 | Olympic figure skater | |
| Robert Bárány | Doctor | 22-Apr-1876 | 8-Apr-1936 | Studied inner ear, equilibrium system |
| Drew Barrymore | Actor | 22-Feb-1975 | E.T., The Wedding Singer | |
| Judith Barsi | Actor | 6-Jun-1978 | 25-Jul-1988 | Murdered child actress |
| Georg von Békésy | Scientist | 3-Jun-1899 | 13-Jun-1972 | Mechanism of cochlear stimulation |
| László Bíró | Inventor | 29-Sep-1899 | 24-Oct-1985 | Ballpoint pen |
| Agnes Bruckner | Actor | 16-Aug-1985 | Soap star, movie star | |
| Adam Carolla | Radio Personality | 27-May-1964 | Loveline, The Man Show | |
| Dale Chihuly | Artist | 20-Sep-1941 | Glass artist | |
| Gabrielle Christian | Actor | 30-Jul-1984 | Spencer Carlin on South of Nowhere | |
| Cicciolina | Pornstar | 26-Nov-1951 | Italian pornstar elected to parliament | |
| Marton Csokas | Actor | 30-Jun-1966 | Borias on Xena, Warrior Princess | |
| George Cukor | Film Director | 7-Jul-1899 | 23-Jan-1983 | My Fair Lady |
| Tony Curtis | Actor | 3-Jun-1925 | 29-Sep-2010 | Some Like It Hot |
| Rodney Dangerfield | Comic | 22-Nov-1921 | 5-Oct-2004 | Never did get no respect |
| Frank Darabont | Film Director | 28-Jan-1959 | The Shawshank Redemption | |
| Nicholas L. Deak | Business | 8-Oct-1905 | 18-Nov-1985 | Deak-Perera |
| Nick Denton | Publisher | 24-Aug-1966 | Gawker Media | |
| Martin Deutsch | Physicist | 29-Jun-1917 | 16-Aug-2002 | Discovered positronium |
| Kitty Dukakis | First Lady | 26-Dec-1936 | Wife of Michael Dukakis | |
| Paul Erdos | Mathematician | 26-Mar-1913 | 20-Sep-1996 | Loved only numbers |
| Joe Eszterhas | Screenwriter | 23-Nov-1944 | Showgirls, Basic Instinct | |
| Susan Faludi | Activist | 18-Apr-1959 | Backlash | |
| Edna Ferber | Novelist | 15-Aug-1885 | 16-Apr-1968 | Show Boat and Giant |
| Flea | Bassist | 16-Oct-1962 | Bassist for Red Hot Chili Peppers | |
| William Fox | Film/TV Producer | 1-Jan-1879 | 8-May-1952 | Founder of 20th Century Fox |
| Justine Frischmann | Guitarist | 16-Sep-1969 | Guitarist, Elastica | |
| Dennis Gabor | Physicist | 5-Jun-1900 | 8-Feb-1979 | Inventor of holography |
| Eva Gabor | Actor | 11-Feb-1919 | 4-Jul-1995 | Green Acres |
| Magda Gabor | Actor | 11-Jun-1914 | 6-Jun-1997 | The least-known Gabor |
| Zsa Zsa Gabor | Actor | 6-Feb-1917 | Cop-slapping Gabor sister | |
| D. Carleton Gajdusek | Scientist | 9-Sep-1923 | 12-Dec-2008 | Kuru (slow virus infections) |
| Romola Garai | Actor | 1-Jul-1982 | Rory O'Shea Was Here | |
| Murray Gell-Mann | Physicist | 15-Sep-1929 | Quarks and strangeness | |
| Uri Geller | Paranormal | 20-Dec-1946 | Thinks he has us snowed | |
| Benjamin A. Gilman | Politician | 6-Dec-1922 | Congressman from New York, 1973-2003 | |
| Louise Glück | Author | 22-Apr-1943 | The Wild Iris | |
| Adolph Green | Songwriter | 2-Dec-1914 | 23-Oct-2002 | Singin' in the Rain |
| David J. Gross | Physicist | 19-Feb-1941 | Deep structure of matter | |
| Lou Groza | Football | 25-Jan-1924 | 29-Nov-2000 | With Cleveland Browns for 21 years |
| Andy Harris | Politician | 25-Jun-1957 | Congressman, Maryland 1st | |
| Robert Hegyes | Actor | 7-May-1951 | 26-Jan-2012 | Epstein on Welcome Back, Kotter |
| Louis Henyey | Astronomer | 3-Feb-1910 | 18-Feb-1970 | Henyey method |
| Avram Hershko | Scientist | 31-Dec-1937 | Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation | |
| George de Hevesy | Chemist | 1-Aug-1885 | 5-Jul-1966 | Radioisotope researcher |
| Nicholas J. Hoff | Engineer | 3-Jan-1906 | 4-Aug-1997 | Aluminum in aircraft design |
| Les Horvath | Football | 12-Oct-1921 | 14-Nov-1995 | Winner, 1944 Heisman Trophy |
| Leslie Howard | Actor | 3-Apr-1893 | 1-Jun-1943 | Pygmalion |
| Louis C. K. | Comic | 12-Sep-1967 | Lucky Louie | |
| Frida Kahlo | Painter | 6-Jul-1907 | 13-Jul-1954 | Unibrowed Mexican painter |
| Theodore von Kármán | Mathematician | 11-May-1881 | 7-May-1963 | Kármán vortices |
| Chris Kattan | Actor | 19-Oct-1970 | Saturday Night Live | |
| Imre Kertész | Author | 9-Nov-1929 | Holocaust survivor, literature Nobel | |
| Arthur Koestler | Author | 3-Sep-1905 | 3-Mar-1983 | Darkness at Noon |
| Teddy Kollek | Politician | 27-May-1911 | 2-Jan-2007 | Mayor of Jerusalem, 1965-93 |
| Nicholas Kurti | Physicist | 14-May-1908 | 24-Nov-1998 | Molecular gastronomy |
| Hedy Lamarr | Actor | 9-Nov-1913 | 19-Jan-2000 | Actress, invented frequency hopping |
| Estée Lauder | Business | 1-Jul-1908 | 24-Apr-2004 | Cosmetics magnate |
| Jerome H. Lemelson | Inventor | 18-Jul-1923 | 1-Oct-1997 | Inventor with a very good lawyer |
| Philipp Lenard | Physicist | 7-Jun-1862 | 20-May-1947 | Investigations of cathode rays |
| György Ligeti | Composer | 28-May-1923 | 12-Jun-2006 | Lontano, Lux Aeterna |
| Robert H. Lowie | Anthropologist | 12-Jun-1883 | 21-Sep-1957 | American ethnologist |
| Bela Lugosi | Actor | 20-Oct-1882 | 16-Aug-1956 | Dracula |
| Imre Nagy | Head of State | 7-Jun-1896 | 16-Jun-1958 | Twice Prime Minister of Hungary |
| Joe Namath | Football | 31-May-1943 | Football player and pantyhose wearer | |
| Laraine Newman | Comic | 2-Mar-1952 | Original member of Saturday Night Live | |
| Marisol Nichols | Actor | 2-Nov-1973 | Nadia Yassir on 24 | |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | Painter | 15-Nov-1887 | 6-Mar-1986 | American abstract and landscape painter |
| George A. Olah | Chemist | 22-May-1927 | Isolated carbonium ions | |
| Greg Palast | Journalist | 26-Jun-1952 | The Best Democracy Money Can Buy | |
| George Pataki | Politician | 24-Jun-1945 | Governor of New York, 1995-2006 | |
| Elsa Pataky | Actor | 18-Jul-1976 | Al Salir de Clase | |
| Tony Poe | Military | 18-Sep-1924 | 27-Jul-2003 | CIA ear collection operative in Southeast Asia |
| John C. Polanyi | Chemist | 23-Jan-1929 | Infrared chemiluminescence | |
| John Popper | Musician | 29-Mar-1967 | Harmonica player, Blues Traveler | |
| Vladimir Prelog | Chemist | 23-Jul-1906 | 7-Jan-1998 | Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts |
| Freddie Prinze | Actor | 22-Jun-1954 | 29-Jan-1977 | Chico of Chico and the Man |
| Freddie Prinze, Jr. | Actor | 8-Mar-1976 | She's All That | |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi | Physicist | 29-Jul-1898 | 11-Jan-1988 | Magnetic beam resonances |
| Irwin Rose | Scientist | 16-Jul-1926 | Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation | |
| Philip Roth | Novelist | 19-Mar-1933 | Portnoy's Complaint | |
| Sidney Salkow | Film Director | 16-Jun-1909 | 18-Oct-2000 | Twice-Told Tales |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | Politician | 28-Jan-1955 | President of France, 2007-12 | |
| Andrew V. Schally | Scientist | 30-Nov-1926 | Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides) | |
| Lynn Schenk | Politician | 5-Jan-1945 | US Congresswoman from California, 1993-95 | |
| Béla Schick | Doctor | 16-Jul-1877 | 6-Dec-1967 | Schick test for diphtheria |
| Peter W. Schramm | Activist | 23-Dec-1946 | Executive Director, Ashbrook Center | |
| Sam Seder | Radio Personality | 28-Nov-1966 | Majority Report podcast | |
| Monica Seles | Tennis | 2-Dec-1973 | Winner of 9 Majors | |
| Gene Simmons | Bassist | 25-Aug-1949 | Blood-spouting KISS bassist | |
| Paul Simon | Singer/Songwriter | 13-Oct-1941 | Simon and Garfunkel | |
| Charles Simonyi | Computer Programmer | 10-Sep-1948 | Hungarian notation | |
| George Soros | Business | 12-Aug-1930 | Financial speculator | |
| Howard Stern | Radio Personality | 12-Jan-1954 | The King of All Media | |
| Robert Strausz-Hupé | Diplomat | 25-Mar-1903 | 24-Feb-2002 | US Ambassador to Turkey, 1981-89 |
| Thomas Szasz | Psychiatrist | 15-Apr-1920 | Libertarian psychiatrist | |
| Leo Szilard | Physicist | 11-Feb-1898 | 30-May-1964 | Nuclear chain reaction |
| Jessica Szohr | Actor | 31-Mar-1985 | Vanessa Abrams on Gossip Girl | |
| Jeffrey Tambor | Actor | 8-Jul-1944 | Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show | |
| Alex Toth | Cartoonist | 25-Jun-1928 | 27-May-2006 | Creator of Space Ghost |
| Paul Turan | Mathematician | 28-Aug-1910 | 26-Sep-1976 | Hungarian mathematician |
| Ville Valo | Singer | 22-Nov-1976 | Frontman for Finnish band HIM | |
| Astrid Varnay | Singer | 25-Apr-1918 | 4-Sep-2006 | Wagnerian soprano |
| John von Neumann | Mathematician | 28-Dec-1903 | 8-Feb-1957 | Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| André Watts | Pianist | 20-Jun-1946 | American piano prodigy | |
| Marina v.N. Whitman | Economist | 6-Mar-1935 | Council of Economic Advisers, 1972-73 | |
| Elie Wiesel | Activist | 30-Sep-1928 | Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist | |
| Eugene Wigner | Physicist | 17-Nov-1902 | 1-Jan-1995 | Law of conservation of parity |
| Cornel Wilde | Actor | 13-Oct-1915 | 16-Oct-1989 | A Song to Remember |
| Richard Zsigmondy | Chemist | 1-Apr-1865 | 23-Sep-1929 | Ultramicroscope |
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