Híres Magyarok

(Kellner, 1893 – 1956) Film Maker Together with his brothers Vincent and Zoltan  made his Oscar nominated film, The Private Life of Henry VIII, perhaps the most influential British film of all time. He became the first member of the film industry to be knighted.

(1853 – 1919) Painter His oeuvre consists of about one hundred paintings and twenty drawings – not too many, but his paintings were the first great summary of modern art in Hungary. His individual style – best illustrated by Trees in Electric Light  and Storm over the Great Hortobágy – was characterized by pantheism and expressive […]

(Endre Ern? Friedmann, 1913 – 1954) Acclaimed Photojournalist Capa left Hungary as a boy, lived in Paris in 1930’s and covered many wars: Spanish Civil War, China, WW II  and the French Indo-China war. He was killed after stepping on a landmine. His most famous photo is  the “Falling Soldier ” from the Spanish Civil War […]

Robert Bárány (1876-1936) was honored with the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medical Science „for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus”. In a speech he delivered upon receiving the Nobel prize in the discipline of otology, Bárány’s professional line, half a century later, George von Békésy spoke about the […]

b. 4/18/1907 Budapest, Hungary, d. 7/27/1995 Los Angeles, CA Composer Studying in the Leipzig Conservatory he started out composing classical music before quickly moving into the cinema world. He studied in London at Trinity College and some of his earliest film music work was in Britain acting as musical director and composer for Sir Alexander Korda […]

(b. 3/26/1913, Budapest, d. 9/20/1996 Warsaw) Erdős, do this his overly protective mother, was mostly home educated until his late teenage years.  His genius was discovered at a very early age, when at 3 after having been introduced to integers and subtraction, he derived negative numbers. Since his father introduced him to prime numbers at […]

(1925 – ) Oscar Winning Actor Newman was born as the second and youngest child of German and Hungarian parents in Cleveland, Ohio. His numerous acclaimed films include Cool Hand Luke, Hud, The Hustler, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, The Verdict, Absence of Malice and The Color […]

b. 9/5/1892 Budapest, Hungary d. 2/19/1973 Lucerne, Switzerland. Violinist He began his studies at a local music school; while still a child, he was placed in the advanced class of Hubay at the Budapest Academy of Music; then made his debut in Berlin at age 13. He settled in Switzerland in 1913; was a professor at […]

(b. 1900, d. 1996) Maria Telkes first became interested in the problems of solar power as a high-school student. She came to the United States in 1925 with a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Budapest. After working at several public and private organizations as a researcher, in 1939 she came to the […]

(1966 – ) Actor Marton became an actor in 1989 after graduating from the New Zealand Drama School. His first movie role was in the 1994 movie Jack Brown Genius. Other film credits include XXX, The Monkey’s Mask, Broken English, Down and Under, Rain, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (Poggle),  Lord of the […]