Farkas

Farkas (Hungarian: Wolf) is a Hungarian surname or a given name (the last corresponds in the Catholic tradition to the German name Wolfgang).

List of persons with the surname

• Andrea Farkas, Hungarian handball goalkeeper
• Andy Farkas, former American football player, who, along with 9 other players, holds the record for the longest pass caught in NFL history
• Balázs Farkas, Hungarian footballer currently playing for FC Dynamo Kyiv
• Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space
• Ferenc Farkas, Hungarian composer
• George Farkas - Founder of Alexander's Department Store
• Gyula Farkas (natural scientist), Hungarian mathematician and physicist
• Gyula Farkas (linguistic scientist) (1894–1958), literature historian
• Karl Farkas, Austrian actor
• Kisbarnaki Ferenc Farkas, Hungarian World War II General and Chief Scout
• Leonardo Farkas, Chilean businessman
• Mihály Farkas, minister of national defence of Hungary under Rákosi dictatorship
• Philip Farkas, symphony horn player
• Wally Farkas, guitarist with Texan rock band Galactic Cowboys
• Zsófia Farkas, the second wife of Muammar Gaddafi [1]

Fictional characaters

• Farkas is one of the werewolf characters players encounter in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim along with his brother, Vilkas (wolf in Lithuanian)^[1]
• Scut Farkus (variation of Farkas), the bully in the 1983 film A Christmas Story

List of persons with the given name

• Farkas Bolyai, or Wolfgang Bolyai
• Farkas Kempelen, or Wolfgang von Kempelen

Phrases

• A "Farkas" refers to the act of someone screwing up as it pertains to technology. For example, "I performed a Farkas when I rebooted the company's server in the middle of the work day".

This phrase was named after Tom Farkas, who on a weekly basis would fiddle with his company's network equipment, causing calamitous disasters on a regular basis.

See also

• Wolf (name)
• Farkasréti Temető (cemetery), Budapest
• Farkas's lemma

References