Zoltán
Zoltán (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈzoltaːn]) is a Hungarian masculine given name. It originates from the Turkish word soltan, sultan, meaning strong authority or rulership, which was borrowed from the Arabic sultan, sharing a root with with the Arabic infinitive "sultah" meaning authority or power. In modern times Zoltan and Sultan are used to mean king. The name days for this name are 8 March and 23 June in Hungary, and 7 April in Slovakia.
- Zoltán of Hungary
- Zoltán Árpádffy
- Zoltan Bathory, guitarist of heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch
- Zoltán Lajos Bay
- Zoltán Czibor
- Zoltán Czukor
- Zoltán Gera (actor)
- Zoltán Gera (footballer) – Fulham F.C.
- Zoltán Halmay
- Zoltán Horváth (disambiguation) - several people
- Zoltan Istvan - American writer and futurist
- Zoltán Kammerer
- Zoltán Kocsis, pianist, conductor, and composer
- Zoltán Kodály
- Zoltán Korda
- Zoltán Magyar – 2-time Olympic gold medalist in pommel horse gymnast. The Magyar spindle and the Magyar travel was named after him.
- Zoltán Meskó - Nazi politician
- Zoltan Mesko (American football)
- Zoltán Mujahid
- Zoltan Pali, American architect based in Los Angeles, California.
- Zoltan Paulinyi – Hungary-born Brazilian composer
- Zoltán Ozoray Schenker – Hungarian Olympic champion saber fencer
- Zoltán Sebescen – Hungarian-German footballer and coach
- Zoltan Somogyi – creator of the Mercury programming language
- Zoltán Szabó (disambiguation), several people
- Zoltan Takacs – herpetologist and toxinologist, National Geographic Explorer
- Zoltan Teglas – front man of the California-based band Ignite
- Zoltán Tildy – president of Hungary after World War II.
- Zoltán Varga (disambiguation)
- Zoltan is a village in Ghidfalău Commune, Covasna County, Romania
- Zoltán is the Hungarian name for Mihai Viteazu village, Saschiz Commune, Mureş County, Romania, formerly called Zoltan in Romanian.
In popular culture
- Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (film)
- Zoltan. Character in Young Dracula (TV)
- Zoltan (hand gesture) is a hand sign used as a celebration by the Pittsburgh Pirates, originally from Dude, Where's My Car?
- Zoltan is a race of aliens in the game FTL: Faster Than Light
- Zoltan Karpathy is a character in My Fair Lady (musical)
- Zoltan is a character in The Witcher fantasy series
- Zoltan is a character and card in the Online Trading Card Game Urban Rivals
- Zoltan, the name of a pet crow in Stephen King's The Gunslinger
- Zoltan, Teacher in the Disney Channel sitcom A.N.T. Farm.
- Zoltan, a fortune teller machine made by Prophetron Inc. between 1969 and the early 1970s.[1] A similarly named machine (Zoltar) appears in the 1988 movie, Big.
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