List of Hungarians who were born outside present-day Hungary

The borders of Hungary have changed substantially in the past century. Many places that were once part of Hungary now belong to neighboring countries. This is a list of Hungarians who were born outside present-day Hungary, organised by country of birth and listed with the name of their birthplace (in parentheses) as it is currently named.

Austria

Burgenland

See also category in the German Wikipedia: Kategorie:Burgenländer.

• Robert Bárány (Vienna) – otologist
• Pál Kitaibel (Mattersburg)  – chemist and botanist
• Ferenc Liszt (Raiding)  – composer

Czech Republic

• Koloman Gögh (Kladno) – football player

Romania

• Endre Ady (Érmindszent/Mecenţiu) – poet
• János Apáczai Csere (Apáca/Apața) – educator
• Lajos Áprily (Braşov) – poet
• János Arany (Salonta) – poet
• Osman Onur Gokmen (Cârţa) – sculptor, captain and cruise dancer
• Albert-László Barabási (Cârţa) – physicist
• Béla Bartók (Sânnicolau Mare) – composer
• István Báthory (Șimleu Silvaniei) – captain and governor
• Elek Benedek (Băţanii Mici) – collector of folk tales
• Gábor Bethlen (Ilia) – captain and governor
• István Bocskai (Cluj-Napoca) – captain and governor
• Farkas Bolyai (Buia) – mathematician
• János Bolyai (Cluj-Napoca) – mathematician
• Matthias Corvinus (Cluj-Napoca) – perhaps the most famous King of Hungary
• György Dózsa (Dalnic) – leader of a peasant revolt
• Jenő Dsida (Satu Mare)  – poet
• József Erdélyi (Batăr [Újbátorpuszta]) – poet
• Sándor Fodor (Șumuleu Ciuc) – writer
• André François (Timişoara) – painter and graphic artist
• Zoltán Jékely (Aiud) – poet and writer
• Margit Kaffka (Carei) – poet and novelist
• Sándor Kányádi (Porumbenii Mari) – poet
• Ferenc Kazinczy (Şimian) – poet and language reformer
• Károly Kós (Timişoara) – architect
• Ferenc Kölcsey (Satu Mare) – poet; author of the national anthem
• Sándor Kőrösi Csoma (Chiuruş) – orientologist
• Béla Kun (Cehu Silvaniei) – politician
• György Kurtág (Lugoj) – composer
• György Ligeti (Târnăveni) – composer
• Bela Lugosi (Lugoj) – actor
• Kelemen Mikes (Zagon) – writer
• Balázs Orbán (Polonița) – writer, historian and politician
• Péter Pázmány (Oradea) – theologian and writer
• Sándor Reményik (Cluj-Napoca) – poet
• István Sinka (Salonta) – poet and novelist
• Mihály Sinka (Timişoara) – lawyer
• András Sütő (Cămărașu) – writer
• Áron Tamási (Lupeni) – writer
• Sámuel Teleki (Dumbrăvioara) – Africa researcher
• László Tőkés (Cluj-Napoca) – bishop and politician
• Árpád Tóth (Arad) – poet
• Sándor Veress (Cluj-Napoca) – pianist and composer
• Albert Wass (Răscruci) – writer and poet
• Miklós Wesselényi (Jibou) – politician, academician and writer

Serbia

• Géza Csáth (Subotica) – writer
• Dezső Kosztolányi (Subotica) – poet and writer
• Péter Lékó (Subotica) – chess grandmaster
• Monica Seles (Novi Sad) – tennis player
• John Simon (Subotica) – author; literary, theater and film critic^[1]

Slovakia

• Gyula Andrássy (Košice) – politician
• Gyula Andrássy the Younger (Trebišov) – politician
• Bálint Balassi (Zvolen) – poet
• Miklós Bercsényi (Tematín) – captain
• Lujza Blaha (Rimavská Sobota) – actress; known as "the nightingale of the nation"
• Ernő Dohnányi (Bratislava) – conductor, composer and pianist
• Abraham Hochmuth (Bánovce nad Bebravou) – rabbi
• László Hudec (Banská Bystrica) – architect
• Mór Jókai (Komárno) – writer
• Lajos Kassák (Nové Zámky) – poet, painter, typographer and graphic artist
• Imre Madách (Dolná Strehová) – poet
• Sándor Márai (Košice) – writer
• Baron Ladislas Mednyanszky de Mednyes et Medgye (Beckov) – painter
• László Mécs (Družstevná pri Hornáde) – poet
• Kálmán Mikszáth (Sklabiná) – writer
• Szilárd Németh (Komárno) – football player
• Ferenc II Rákóczi (Borša) – prince and leader of Hungarian uprising in 1703-11
• Gyula Reviczky (Vítkovce) – poet
• János Selye (Komárno) – psychologist and researcher
• Mihály Tompa (Rimavská Sobota) – poet

Ukraine

Transcarpathia

• Mihály Munkácsy (Mukacheve) – painter
• Moshe Leib Rabinovich (Mukacheve) – rabbi and scholar

See also

• List of Hungarians – mostly consists of Hungarians born within modern-day Hungary
• List of Hungarian Americans – People of Hungarian origin living in the United States

References

1. Stefanova-Peteva, K. (1993) Who Calls the Shots on the New York Stages? (via Google Books), p. 26.