List of Hungarian Americans

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This is a list of famous Hungarian Americans. Many Hungarians fled to the United States after the Soviet invasion in 1956.

Lists of
famous Americans
by U.S. state
by ethnicity:
African American
Albanian | Arab
Armenian | Australian
Austrian | Bahamian
Bangladeshi | Belgian
Brazilian | Bulgarian
Cajun
Cambodian | Chinese
Croatian | Cuban
Danish | Dutch
English | Estonian
Filipino | Finnish
French
German | Greek
| Hmong
Hungarian
Indian | Iranian
Irish | Italian
Israeli
Jamaican | Japanese
Jewish | Korean
Laotian
Louisiana Creole
Mexican
Muslim
Native American
Native Hawaiian
Norwegian | Polish
Portuguese | Romanian
Russian | Salvadoran
Scots-Irish | Scottish
Swedish | Swiss
Taiwanese | Ukrainian
Vietnamese | Welsh

Contents

[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Actors

[edit] Filmmakers

[edit] Sportspeople

[edit] Scientists

[edit] Writers/Editors/Journalists

[edit] Artists

[edit] Musicians/Composers

[edit] Politicians

[edit] Other

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ [1] [2] "Prior to Vilma Banky’s birth, her father, a highly esteemed bureau chief for the Franz Josef Austro-Hungarian Empire, had moved the family to the small town of Nagydorog, a suburb of Budapest, in Hungary. Vilma Konsics Bánky was born there on January 09, 1902..."
  2. ^ [3] "She is half Hungarian on her mother's side" [4] "Drews Mother - Jaid Barrymore (nee Ildiko Jaid Mako) [was] Born on the 8th May 1946 in Brannenburg, West Germany in a camp for displaced persons. Jaids parents (Drew's grandparents) were Hungarian."
  3. ^ [5] "Louis "Louie" Szekely is Hungarian Jewish and Mexican Catholic on his father's side..."
  4. ^ [6] "I’m a Hungarian Jew. My grandmother, God rest her soul, was a Hungarian Jew. I am my grandmother now."
  5. ^ [7] [8] "Born Bernard Schwartz in 1925 to Jewish-Hungarian parents, Curtis grew up in New York’s matinee movie-palaces..."
  6. ^ [9] "Bill Dana who created the funny talking Hispanic character was actually a Hungarian Jew born 1924 in Quincy, Massachusetts."
  7. ^ [10] [11] "Eva Gabor was born in Budapest, Hungary on Feb 11 1926..."
  8. ^ [12] [13] "Zsa Zsa Gabor born, Budapest Hungary. Though some sources say 1918, 1919, or 1920. 1936 Elected Miss Hungary."
  9. ^ [14] "Hungarian-born motion picture actor..."
  10. ^ [15] "Joaquin's mother is of Hungarian-Russian decent and his father is of Spanish-Irish decent."
  11. ^ [16] "Of Irish, Italian, French, Hungarian, and English descent."
  12. ^ [17] "Although born in France, he comes from a complex ethnic background - his Bulgarian-born father Eddie Vartan is half Armenian and half Hungarian, while his Jewish mother Doris Vartan was born in Poland but later in life became an American citizen."
  13. ^ Antal - [18] "A Hungarian-American's splashy debut..."
  14. ^ [19] [20] "George Dewey Cukor was born in New York City on July 14, 1899, to a Hungarian Jewish immigrant couple..."
  15. ^ [21][22] "Three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont was born in a refugee camp in France in 1959, the son of Hungarian parents who had fled Budapest during the failed 1956 Hungarian uprising."
  16. ^ [23] [24] "A Justice Department investigation reveals that Eszterhas' father, a Hungarian who immigrated to the United States, wrote anti-Semitic propaganda in his home country during World War II."
  17. ^ [25]
  18. ^ [26]
  19. ^ [27]
  20. ^ [28] [29] "Known for his best-selling military histories, Ladislas Farago also wrote a witty tribute to his homeland, Strictly from Hungary."
  21. ^ [30] [31] "Born in Budapest, Hungary in January 1926 to parents who were in show business in Europe, Miklos "Mickey" Hargitay came to the US in the early 1950s."
  22. ^ [32] [33] "Howard's Hungarian-born mother was the prime mover in getting an early diagnosis."
  23. ^ [34] "The southpaw's nickname, The Mad Hungarian, came from his nationality, Fu Manchu mustache and long hair, and angry stomping to the back of the mound to psych himself up."
  24. ^ [35] [36] "He is of Hungarian descent; his father László fled Hungary in the wake of the failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution and emigrated to the United States."
  25. ^ [37]
  26. ^ [38] [39] "The son of a Hungarian immigrant, Namath left the steel country of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania..."
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  28. ^ [41] [42] "He was born on Jan 4, 1930 in Grand River, Ohio, the fourth of Hungarian immigrants Dan and Mary Shula's seven children."
  29. ^ [43] [44] "Victor Szebehely was one of a truly remarkable group of immigrants who came to the United States from Hungary as a result of the upheavals caused by the Second World War in Europe."
  30. ^ Winkler, Allan. Life Under a Cloud, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999, p.11
  31. ^ Winkler, Allan. Life Under a Cloud, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999, p.68
  32. ^ [45]"Von Neumann was a child prodigy, born into a banking family is Budapest, Hungary".
  33. ^ [46] [47] "Author and journalist Kati Marton was born in Hungary and has spent two decades writing and reporting from the United States, Europe and the Far East."
  34. ^ [48] [49] "Joseph Pulitzer was born in Makó, Hungary, as the eldest son of Hungarian Jews."
  35. ^ [50] "Hungarian-born photographer Sylvia Plachy captures..."
  36. ^ [51] "A Hungarian-American conductor, Eugene Ormandy was born on November 18, 1899, in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated from the Budapest Royal Academy, where he studied violin with Jenö Hubay, an eminent Hungarian violinist."
  37. ^ [52] [53] "Tommy Ramone was born Thomas Erdelyi In Budapest, Hungary but grew up in Queens one of the boroughs of New York City."
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  39. ^ [55] [56] "His Hungarian father and Irish-Italian mother did not provide the lineage considered desirable in those days."
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