List of people from Budapest

The following list includes notable people who were born, lived or resided in Budapest, Hungary and/or who became its honorary citizens, either during their lifetime or posthumously.

Academics

 * Mihail G. Boiagi - grammarian and professor
 * Raoul Bott - mathematician
 * Gábor Döbrentei - philologist and antiquary
 * Paul Erdős - mathematician
 * Endre Fülei-Szántó - linguist
 * John Harsanyi - economist, philosopher, and laureate of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics
 * Theodor Herzl - journalist, political activist, and father of modern political Zionism
 * Károly Kerényi - scholar
 * János Kornai - economist
 * Peter Lax - mathematician
 * László Lovász - mathematician
 * Michael Polanyi
 * George Pólya - mathematician
 * Sándor Scheiber - rabbi and scholar
 * Thomas Sebeok - semiotician
 * Thomas Szász - psychiatrist and activist
 * Endre Szemerédi - mathematician
 * Edit Tasnádi - literary translator and academic

Artists

 * Andrea Bartha - set designer, costume designer, and visual artist
 * Robert Capa - photographer
 * Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka - painter
 * Gábor Csupó - animator
 * Béni Ferenczy - sculptor and graphic artist
 * Árpád Feszty - painter
 * André François - cartoonist
 * Líviusz Gyulai - graphic designer
 * Henrik Heintz - painter
 * Miklós Izsó - sculptor
 * Jenő Jendrassik - painter
 * Ferenc Joachim - painter
 * Ede Kallós - sculptor
 * Lajos Kassák
 * André Kertész - photographer
 * Zsigmond Kisfaludi Stróbl - sculptor and visual artist
 * Miklós Ligeti - sculptor and visual artist
 * Imre Makovecz - architect
 * János Manninger - photographer
 * Ferenc Medgyessy - sculptor
 * Ladislav Mednyánszky - painter and philosopher
 * László Moholy-Nagy - painter and photographer
 * Gustav Morelli - engraver and illustrator
 * István Orosz - painter, printmaker, graphic designer, and animated film director
 * George Pal - animator, director, and producer
 * János Pásztor - sculptor
 * Ferenc Rófusz - animator
 * József Róna - sculptor and visual artist
 * Albert Schickedanz - architect and painter
 * Gyorgy Bp. Szabo - graphic designer and musician
 * Dezső Váli - painter
 * Victor Vasarely - visual artist
 * András Vikár - architect and educator
 * Tamás Waliczky - visual artist and animator
 * Ze'ev - caricaturist and illustrator

Athletes

 * Róbert Antal - water polo
 * Barbara Bagócsi - handball
 * Péter Bakonyi (born 1933) - fencing
 * Péter Bakonyi (born 1938) - fencing
 * Rudolf Bauer - discus throwing
 * Tibor Benedek - water polo player and coach
 * Gyula Bíró - football
 * József Braun - footballer and manager
 * Ákos Buzsáky - football
 * Ibolya Csák - high jumper and gymnast
 * Zoltán Czibor - football
 * Tamás Darnyi - swimmer
 * Krisztina Egerszegi - swimmer
 * Ilona Elek - fencing
 * Zsolt Erdei - boxing
 * Jenő Fuchs - fencing
 * Tamás Gábor - fencing
 * János Garay - fencing
 * Oszkár Gerde - fencing
 * Aladár Gerevich - fencing
 * Sándor Gombos - fencing
 * Gyula Grosics - footballer and manager
 * Béla Guttmann - footballer and manager
 * Gábor Gyepes - football
 * Alfréd Hajós - swimmer and footballer
 * Nándor Hidegkuti - footballer and manager
 * Gábor Horváth - kayaker and spring canoeist
 * Gary Kallos - wrestling
 * Ágnes Keleti - gymnast and coach
 * Vilmos Kertész - football
 * Ralph Klein - basketball player and coach
 * Zsuzsa Körmöczy - tennis
 * István Kovács - boxing
 * Pál Kovács - fencing
 * Zoltán Kovács - ice hockey coach and administrator
 * Lily Kronberger - figure skating
 * Imi Lichtenfeld - martial arts
 * Zoltán Magyar - gymnastics
 * Gyula Mándi - football
 * Opika von Méray Horváth - figure skating
 * Zoltan Nagy - professional wrestler
 * Henrik Nádler - football
 * László Papp - boxing
 * Attila Petschauer - fencing
 * Ferenc Puskás - football
 * Béla Rajki-Reich - swimming and water polo coach
 * László Schnell - ice hockey official
 * Béla Sebestyén - football
 * Gusztáv Sebes - football
 * Zoltán Stieber - football
 * László Szollás - figure skating
 * Ildikó Rejtő - fencing
 * Lajos Werkner - fencing
 * George Worth - fencing

Authors

 * Endre Ady - poet
 * János Arany - poet
 * Mihály Babits - poet, writer, and translator
 * Dániel Berzsenyi - poet
 * Péter Esterházy
 * György Faludy - poet
 * Ferenc Fejtő - journalist and political scientist
 * Tamás Harle - journalist
 * Attila József - poet
 * József Kármán
 * József Katona
 * Ferenc Kazinczy
 * Zsigmond Kemény
 * András Kenessei - art historian, writer, and journalist
 * Imre Kertész - author and laureate of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Ephraim Kishon - author and filmmaker
 * Arthur Koestler - writer and journalist
 * György Konrád - novelist
 * Domokos Kosáry - writer and historian
 * Imre Madách - writer and poet
 * Sándor Márai
 * Zsigmond Móricz
 * András Petőcz - writer and poet
 * Sándor Petőfi - poet and liberal revolutionary
 * Magda Szabó - novelist
 * László Teleki - writer and statesman
 * Mihály Vörösmarty - poet and dramatist
 * Zsuzsanna Budapest - writer, activist, playwright, and songwriter

Entertainment and Film

 * András Arató - model and internet meme
 * Gábor Bódy - director, screenwriter, theoretic, and actor
 * Monique Covét - pornographic actress and fetish model
 * Ágnes Csomor - actress
 * Eva Gabor - actress and socialite
 * Magda Gabor - actress and socialite
 * Zsa Zsa Gabor - actress and socialite
 * Mickey Hargitay - actor and 1955 Mr. Universe
 * Géza Hofi - actor and comedian
 * Harry Houdini - escapologist and stuntperson
 * Miklós Jancsó - director and screenwriter
 * Gyula Kabos - actor and comedian
 * Flóra Kádár - actress
 * Lajos Koltai - cinematographer and director
 * David Merlini - escapologist and world record holder
 * Barbara Palvin - model
 * Pál Regős - theatre director and choreographer
 * Ernő Rubik - inventor of the Rubik's cube
 * Ilona Staller - pornographic actress, politician, and singer
 * István Szabó - film director, screenwriter, and opera director
 * Béla Tarr - filmmaker
 * Mari Törőcsik - actress
 * Ivan Tors - playwright, film director, screenwriter, and film and television producer
 * Vilmos Zsigmond - cinematographer

Musicians

 * Niki Belucci - DJ
 * János Bihari - violinist
 * Gábor Darvas - composer and musicologist
 * Ernő von Dohnányi - composer, pianist, and conductor
 * Antal Doráti - conductor and composer
 * Péter Eötvös - composer, conductor, and teacher
 * Tamás Erdélyi - drummer
 * Ferenc Erkel - composer, conductor, and pianist
 * Jakob Grün - violinist
 * Péter Halász - conductor
 * Pál Kadosa - composer
 * Zoltán Kodály - composer, ethnomusicologist, and pedagogue
 * Ildikó Komlósi - mezzo-soprano
 * György Kurtág - composer and pianist
 * Franz Liszt - composer and pianist
 * Ervin Nyiregyházi - pianist
 * Paul Alexander Nyiri - opera singer
 * Tibor Paul - conductor
 * Zoltán Peskó - conductor and composer
 * Charles Reiner - pianist and educator
 * András Schiff - pianist
 * Gábor Szabó - guitarist
 * Jenő Szenkár - conductor
 * László Vidovszky - composer and pianist
 * Márton Vizy - singer, songwriter, and composer

Politicians

 * Gyula Andrássy - statesman
 * Gábor Baross - statesman
 * Étienne Davignon - diplomat, civil servant, vice-president of the European Commission
 * Árpád Göncz - president of Hungary from 1990 to 2000
 * Nicholas Greiner
 * Gábor Harangozó
 * Miklós Horthy - admiral and statesman
 * Mihály Károlyi - president of Hungary from 1918 to 1919
 * Lajos Kossuth
 * László Kovács
 * Béla Kun - communist revolutionary
 * Tom Lantos
 * Imre Nagy - leader of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
 * István Széchenyi - noble and statesman
 * István Tisza
 * Miklós Wesselényi

Scientists

 * Franz Alexander - psychoanalyst and physician
 * Michael Balint - psychoanalyst
 * Zoltán Lajos Bay - physicist, professor, and engineer
 * Donát Bánki - engineer and inventor
 * Georg von Békésy - biophysicist and laureate of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Medicine
 * Ottó Bláthy - electrical engineer and inventor
 * Miksa Déri - electrical engineer
 * Loránd Eötvös - physicist
 * Sándor Ferenczi - psychoanalyst
 * Ábrahám Ganz - iron manufacturer, machine and technical engineer, entrepreneur
 * Dennis Gabor - electrical engineer, physicist, and laureate of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * George de Hevesy - radiochemist and laureate of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Máté Hidvégi - biochemist and inventor
 * János Irinyi - chemist and inventor
 * György Jendrassik - physicist and mechanical engineer
 * Kálmán Kandó - engineer and inventor
 * Theodore von Kármán - mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist
 * Philipp Lenard - physicist and laureate of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * Alexander Nadas - pediatric cardiologist
 * John von Neumann - mathematician and physicist
 * George Andrew Olah - chemist and laureate of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * John Polanyi - chemist and laureate of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Tivadar Puskás - inventor
 * Alexander Radó - cartographer, geographer, and Soviet military intelligence agent
 * István Rosztóczy - microbiologist and medical researcher
 * Géza Róheim - psychoanalyst and anthropologist
 * Gábor A. Somorjai - chemistry professor and researcher
 * József Szabó von Szentmiklós - geologist
 * Paul B. Szanto - pathologist
 * Victor Szebehely - key figure in the development of the Apollo program
 * Albert Szent-Györgyi - biochemist and laureate of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Medicine
 * Leó Szilárd - physicist and inventor
 * Mária Telkes - biophysicist and inventor
 * Edward Teller - nuclear physicist
 * Eugene Wigner - physicist, mathematician, and laureate of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * Károly Zipernowsky - engineer
 * Paula Zsidi - archeologist and museum director

Other notable people and honorary citizens

 * Princess Viktória de Bourbon de Parme - lawyer, businesswoman, and royal
 * Gyula Breyer - chess player
 * Václav Havel- honorary citizen
 * Kati Kovács – honorary citizen
 * Andor Lilienthal - chess player
 * Johann Löwenthal - chess player
 * Géza Maróczy - chess player
 * József Mindszenty - cardinal
 * Susan Polgar - chess grandmaster
 * Judit Polgár - chess grandmaster
 * Zsófia Polgár - chess player, teacher, and artist
 * Lajos Portisch - chess player
 * Elvis Presley – honorary citizen
 * Mordechai Efraim Fischel Sofer-Zussman - chief rabbi of Budapest
 * George Soros - investor and philanthropist
 * László Szabó - chess player
 * Edward Teller – honorary citizen
 * Lech Walesa – honorary citizen
 * Raoul Wallenberg – honorary citizen