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The Hungarian Ohioans are the members of the group of Hungarians living in Ohio, in the United States. Their number was 193,951 in 2006. Fairport Harbor, Ohio is one of those places in the United States, where there is a 11,8 % Hungarian population. In Cleveland and its neighboring area there lives more than 130,000 Hungarians. Some resources stated that there was time, when Cleveland was the second greatest Hungarian settlement. There is also a greater colony og Hungarian in Toledo, Ohio. Two local representatives reside in Toledo: Peter Ujvagi and Matt Szollosi. In Toldeo one can find the famous Tony Packo's Cafe.

History
During the 19th and the 20th century a lot of Hungarian people emmigrated to the United States, and one of the final destinations was Ohio. In 1900 there were about 17,000 Hungarians in Ohio. By 1920 their number became 73,181. Although they arrived before the first World War, there were still two large waves of Hungarian immigration: after the second World War and after the 1956 revolution. In the last decades the Hungarian communities started to melting and moving to other places in Ohio, but their presence is still significant.

Hungarians in Cleveland
Most of the Hungarian immigrants settled down in the coatsline of the Lake Erie and in Cleveland. At the end of the 19th century there already were six Hungarian communities in Cleveland. The organized their own churches. In 1900 precisely 9,558 Hungarian lived in Cleveland, which meant the 8 % of the non-aboriginal population of the city. By 1920 their number growed to 43,134 (18 % of the non-aboriginal population). They had own district, which was located from Madison St. (today East 79th) and Woodland Avenue to East 65th Avenue. Theodore Kuntz, who arrived in 1873, founded a factory, where 2,500 Hungarian worked. Soon he beacame one of the wealthiest man in Cleveland. In 1890 he raised a Hungaria Hall on the Clark Avenue. In 1920 there were more than 300 Hungarian-owned factories and 81 associations in Cleveland. Between 1947 and 1953 6,000 Hungarians settled down in the city, the earlier arrived Hungarians helped them to assimilate. In the 1980es there were 113,000 Hungarians in Cleveland, in 1990 it fell to 61,681. At that time 924 Hungarian organizations were present in Cleveland.

Notable Hungarian Ohioans

 * Peter Ujvagi - Ohio representative
 * Matt Szollosi - Ohio representative
 * Julie Hamos - Illinois representative
 * Chris Jansing (born Christine Kapostasy) - news correspondent
 * Lou Groza - American football player
 * Larry Csonka - American football player
 * Iggy Katona - stock car racer
 * Joe Eszterhas - screenwriter
 * Jeno Manninger - state secretary of the department of transportation
 * Jesse Csincsak - snowboarder
 * Andy Farkas - soccer
 * Les Horvath - American football player
 * Bernie Kosar - American football player
 * Zoltan Mesko - American football player
 * Peter Wolf Toth - sculptor