List of Hungarian Americans
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This is a list of notable Hungarian Americans. Many Hungarians went to the United States after the Soviet invasion in 1956 during Operation Safe Haven.
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Contents |
[edit] List
[edit] Entertainment
[edit] Actors
- Vilma Bánky[1]
- Drew Barrymore[2]
- Adrien Brody
- Jamie Lee Curtis[3]
- Tony Curtis[4]
- Bill Dana[5]
- Mickey Dolenz
- Eva Gabor[6]
- Zsa Zsa Gabor[7]
- Mariska Hargitay
- Goldie Hawn
- Kate Hudson
- Ernie Kovacs
- David Krumholtz
- Peter Lorre
- Paul Lukas
- Bela Lugosi[8]
- Ilona Massey (née Harmassy)
- Paul Newman
- Edward James Olmos
- Joe Penner
- Michael Vartan
[edit] Filmmakers
- Nimród Antal - (1973 -) film director[9]
- László Benedek - film director
- Gabor Csupo - animator of Rugrats and early Simpsons
- George Cukor - film director[10]
- Michael Curtiz (né Kertesz) - director of Casablanca
- Frank Darabont - producer/director[11]
- Joe Eszterhas - screenwriter[12]
- William Fox (producer) - founder 20th Century Fox
- Alexander Korda - director
- László Kovács (cinematographer) - cinematographer
- Andrew Laszlo - cinematographer
- Ernest Laszlo - cinematographer
- László Marton - theatre director [13]
- Peter Medak - director
- George Pal - father of sci-fi cinema, director, producer, cinematographer
- István Szabó - film director, Academy Award winner
- Andrew G. Vajna - movie producer
- Vilmos Zsigmond - cinematographer
- Adolph Zukor - founder Paramount Pictures
[edit] Sportspeople
- Larry Csonka - football player[14]
- Ladislas Farago - journalist[15]
- Nick Fazekas - basketball player[16]
- Lou Groza - football player
- Mickey Hargitay - bodybuilder, father of Mariska Hargitay (above)[17]
- Tim Howard - soccer player[18]
- Al Hrabosky - baseball player[19]
- Karch Kiraly - volleyball player[20]
- Bernie Kosar - football player[21]
- Jack Lengyel - football coach
- Joe Namath - football player[22]
- Charles Nagy - baseball player
- Monica Seles - tennis player[23]
- Don Shula - football coach[24]
- Joe Theismann - former football player turned broadcaster
[edit] Scientists
- Peter Carl Goldmark - engineer
- Paul Halmos - mathematician
- Stevan Harnad - scientist
- John George Kemeny - scientist
- Nicholas Kurti - physicist
- Cornelius Lanczos - physicist
- Peter Lax - mathematician
- László Lovász - mathematician
- Erno Laszlo - dermatologist and cosmetic businessman
- George Andrew Olah - chemist
- Charles Simonyi - computer developer
- Thomas Szasz - psychiatrist and academic
- Gábor Szegő - mathematician
- Victor Szebehely - scientist[25]
- Albert Szent-Györgyi - biologist and polymath
- Leo Szilard - physicist[26]
- Edward Teller - father of the hydrogen bomb[27]
- Georg von Békésy - biophysicist
- Theodore von Kármán - scientist
- John von Neumann - computer scientist[28]
- Eugene Wigner - quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1963)
[edit] Writers/Editors/Journalists
- Csaba Csere - technical director and editor of Car and Driver
- Elie Wiesel - author, 1986 Peace Prize Nobelist
- Kati Marton - author[29]
- Joseph Pulitzer - publisher[30]
[edit] Artists
- Maurice Ascalon - sculptor and industrial designer
- Marcel Breuer - architect and furniture designer
- László Moholy-Nagy - painter, photographer
- Sylvia Plachy - photographer[31]
[edit] Musicians/Composers
- Peter Cetera - singer/bassist/composer/producer, formerly of the band Chicago (mother of Hungarian descent)[32]
- Csaba Erdélyi - violist
- Stephan Erdody - Grammy Award Winning Cellist
- Keith Jarrett - jazz and classical pianist and composer
- Gene Kardos - Big Band leader of the 1930s
- Mark Knopfler and David Knopfler - of Dire Straits
- Eugene Ormandy - conductor[33]
- John Popper - singer/harmonicist of Blues Traveler
- Tommy Ramone - member of the Ramones[34]
- Miklós Rózsa - film score composer [35]
- Paul Simon - singer/songwriter, Hungarian parents
- Gene Simmons - Singer, bassist rock band KISS: Hungarian mother
- Mike Shinoda - member of Linkin Park (mother is of Hungarian descent)
- Gábor Szabó - jazz guitarist
- Zoli Téglás - vocalist of Ignite
[edit] Politicians
- Chris Gabrielli - Massachusetts candidate for governor.
- Joseph Gaydos - former Pennsylvania congressman
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia - former mayor of New York City (Hungarian mother)
- Tom Lantos - former congressman from California[36]
- George Pataki - former Governor of New York; father was Hungarian[37]
- Mark Singel - former Pennsylvania Lt. Governor
- Jesse Ventura - former Governor of Minnesota
[edit] Other
- Steven Brust - writer
- Louis C.K. - comedian whose birth name is Louis Szekely
- Magda Gabor - entertainer
- Harry Houdini - escape artist
- Hirsch Jacobs - racehorse owner and trainer
- Chris Jansing - newscaster
- Calvin Klein - World famous fashion designer
- Alex Koroknay-Palicz - executive director of National Youth Rights Association[38]
- Ernie Kovacs - entertainer
- Eugene Lang - philanthropist[39]
- Paul László - architect, interior designer
- Estée Lauder (person) - co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies, cosmetics
- George Pál - animator
- Laszlo Rabel - United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- Helena Rubinstein - co-founder of make-up label Helena Rubinstein
- George Soros - speculator, investor, philanthropist, political activist
- Thomas Szasz - psychiatry professor
- Ferenc A. Váli - lawyer, author, political analyst
- Roland Wank - architect
[edit] See also
- List of Hungarians
- List of people of Hungarian origin
- Hungarian Canadians
- Manhattan Hungarian Network
[edit] References
- ^ [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 9, 1902..."
- ^ [3] "She is half Hungarian on her mother's side" [4] "Drews Mother - Jaid Barrymore (nee Ildiko Jaid Mako) [was] Born on 8 May 1946 in Brannenburg, West Germany in a camp for displaced persons. Jaids parents (Drew's grandparents) were Hungarian."
- ^ [5] "I’m a Hungarian Jew. My grandmother, God rest her soul, was a Hungarian Jew. I am my grandmother now."
- ^ [6] [7] "Born Bernard Schwartz in 1925 to Jewish-Hungarian parents, Curtis grew up in New York’s matinee movie-palaces..."
- ^ [8] "Bill Dana who created the funny talking Hispanic character was actually a Hungarian Jew born 1924 in Quincy, Massachusetts."
- ^ [9] [10] "Eva Gabor was born in Budapest, Hungary on February 11, 1926..."
- ^ [11] "Zsa Zsa Gabor born, Budapest Hungary. Though some sources say 1918, 1919, or 1920. 1936 Elected Miss Hungary."
- ^ [12] "Hungarian-born motion picture actor..."
- ^ Antal - [13] "A Hungarian-American's splashy debut..."
- ^ [14] [15] "George Dewey Cukor was born in New York City on July 14, 1899, to a Hungarian Jewish immigrant couple..."
- ^ [16]
- Jules Engel - animator/filmmaker/world reknown teacher
- ^ [18] [19] "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."
- ^ László Marton
- ^ [20][dead link]
- ^ [21] [22] "Known for his best-selling military histories, Ladislas Farago also wrote a witty tribute to his homeland, Strictly from Hungary."
- ^ Sneddon, Steve. "NBA a realistic goal for Fazekas", Reno Gazette-Journal, 2005-02-08. Retrieved on 2007-06-29. "Nick’s grandfather, Albert Fazekas, who lives in the Denver area, has that fire in his heart. He was a freedom fighter in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956."
- ^ [23] [24] "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."
- ^ [25] [26] "Howard's Hungarian-born mother was the prime mover in getting an early diagnosis."
- ^ [27] "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."
- ^ [28] [29] "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."
- ^ The Hungary Page - More Famous Hungarians
- ^ [30] [31] "The son of a Hungarian immigrant, Namath left the steel country of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania..."
- ^ NEWS FROM VOJVODINA, SERBIA from the American Hungarian Federation - Founded 1906
- ^ [32] [33] "He was born on January 4, 1930 in Grand River, Ohio, the fourth of Hungarian immigrants Dan and Mary Shula's seven children."
- ^ [34] [35] "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."
- ^ Winkler, Allan. Life Under a Cloud, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999, p.11
- ^ Winkler, Allan. Life Under a Cloud, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999, p.68
- ^ [36]"Von Neumann was a child prodigy, born into a banking family is Budapest, Hungary".
- ^ [37] [38] "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."
- ^ [39] [40] "Joseph Pulitzer was born in Makó, Hungary, as the eldest son of Hungarian Jews."
- ^ [41] "Hungarian-born photographer Sylvia Plachy captures..."
- ^ [42] Cetera has stated this in interviews and on his Web site; however he's not revealed his mother's birth/maiden name.
- ^ [43] "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."
- ^ [44] [45] "Tommy Ramone was born Thomas Erdelyi In Budapest, Hungary but grew up in Queens one of the boroughs of New York City."
- ^ The Miklós Rózsa Society Website
- ^ visa application cheap flight hungary at hungaryemb.org
- ^ [46] [47] "His Hungarian father and Irish-Italian mother did not provide the lineage considered desirable in those days."
- ^ One and Four » Blog Archive » A Nation of Immigrants - My Great-Grandmother
- ^ Modern American Patriot: Eugene Lang