Hungarian Jews

George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. As of May 2025, he has a net worth of US$7.2 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. In 2020, Forbes called Soros the "most generous giver" in terms of percentage of net worth.

Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and politician (1847-1911)

Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. She is the only woman to be ranked in the world top 10, the only woman to achieve a rating over 2700, reaching a peak rating of 2735, and the only woman to compete in the final stage of a World Chess Championship. She was the top-rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement from competitive chess in 2014, remaining No. 1 until the March 2015 rating list; her record of 26 consecutive years as woman's No. 1 still stands.

Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate

Hungarian chemist (1927-2017)

Israeli scientist

Hungarian chess player (born 1969)

Hungarian composer (1923-2006)

Hungarian artist (1895–1946)

Hungarian author and explorer (1912–1988)

Hungarian psychiatrist (1920-2012)

Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director (born 1938)

Hungarian philosopher and academic

Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936–2016)

Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer (1845–1930)

Hungarian psychoanalyst (1873–1933)

Hungarian-American drummer (1949–2014)

American mathematician (1916–2006)

Israeli politician (1911–2007)

Hungarian-born British musician (born 1953)

Hungarian orientalist, scholar (1850-1921)

Hungarian orientalist, academic (1832–1913)

mathematician (1878-1936)

Hungarian writer and theatre director (1914–2007)

Hungarian-British economist

Hungarian composer

Hungarian chess player (1911–2010)

chess player

Hungarian-born mathematician

Hungarian-born British author (1912–1987)

American actress, singer

Hungarian-born British chess player

Hungarian chess teacher

Hungarian mathematician (1910–1976)

Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1880–1948)

Hungarian mathematician (1905-1977)

Hungarian Italian writer and film director

Hungarian pianist and composer (1889-1968)

Israeli Krav Maga practitioner (1910–1998)

(1914–1963) Hungarian musician

Hungarian economist (1928-2021)

Hungarian mathematician (1885–1933)

Hungarian lawyer, author and editor (1894–1968)

Hungarian chess player (1810-1876)

Hungarian poet, translator

Hungarian-American cellist (1924–2013)

Hungarian-Swedish biologist

Hungarian film director

Austrian conductor and music educator (1899-1975)

Hungarian-British architect and furniture designer (1902–1987)

Hungarian writer, poet, translator (1910–2006)

American physicist (1922–2006)

Hungarian musician (1795-1876)

Hungarian water polo player (1890-1954)

Hungarian-Croatian aviation pioneer

Hungarian-American film director (1904-1992)

(1837–1902) Hungarian physician and dermatologist

Hungarian violinist and teacher, 1873-1944

Hungarian actress and singer (1910–1990)

Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor (1929–1973)