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László
László () is a Hungarian male given name and surname after the King-Knight Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary (1077–1095). It derives from Ladislav, a variant of Vladislav. The name has a history of being frequently anglicized as Leslie. It is the most common male name among the whole Hungarian male population since 2003.
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Cseh
Cseh ("Czech" in Hungarian, pronounced ) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Covali
Covali is the Romanian form of the name Kowal (), meaning "forger" or "blacksmith" in Slavic languages. The surname may refer to:
Horváth
Horváth is a common Hungarian surname. "Horváth" is the 2nd or 4th most common surname in Hungary as well as the most common in Slovakia. It's thought to derive from Hungarian horvát ("Croat") spelled without the final h in old orthography. The related Croatian surname Horvat, which is derived from an older version of the noun "Hrvat" ("Croat"), is the most common surname in Croatia or the Croatian diaspora. Members of this family can be found across the world, and are most numerous in the United States. Variations of the name include Horvat, Horvaty, Hrvat, Chorbadi, Orbath, Orvath, Orvat. T
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Kretschmer is a German surname. It is an occupational surname literally meaning "innkeeper" associated with the word Kretscham, meaning village inn. It comes from the Middle High German word kretschmar, which was borrowed from a Slavic language, e.g. Czech krčmář. Other forms include Krechmer, Kretchmer, Kretschmar, Kretzschmar, and Kreczmar (Polonized form).
Hladnik
Hladnik is a Slavic surname that may refer to Boštjan Hladnik (1929–2006), Slovenian filmmaker Feliks Hladnik (1915-2002), Croatian world art collector Franz Hladnik (1773–1844), Carniolan botanist and schoolmaster Miran Hladnik (born 1954), Slovenian literary historian
Proskuryakov
Proskuryakov, feminine: Proskuryakova or alternative spelling Proskouriakov and Proskouriakoff is a surname. It may refer to:
Nemetz
thumb|Nematz family, 1916 Nemetz is a German surname of Slavic origin that comes from a variation on the Slavic word Němec, meaning "mute". Notable people with the surname include:
Matulevičius
Matulevičius is a Lithuanian-language surname of East Slavic origin, as identified by the patronymic suffix -ičius corresponding to the East Slavic -ich.