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Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister from 1994 to 1998, also recognized as an economist and diplomat

Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, and pedagogue best known for developing the internationally recognized Kodály method of music education

King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia who died at the Battle of Mohács fighting the Ottomans

Austro-Hungarian author and critic, renowned for creating "Bambi, a Life in the Woods," adapted into the classic Disney film

Hungarian-German philosopher and sociologist known for his work in the sociology of knowledge and his seminal book, Ideology and Utopia

Hungarian footballer and coach known as a prolific striker and a star of the legendary 'Mighty Magyars' and FC Barcelona

Prolific Hungarian-American film director who shaped Hollywood's Golden Age with classics like Casablanca and The Charge of the Light Brigade

Hungarian-American mathematician known for his contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis, probability theory, and his influential work in heuristics and mathematics education

Hungarian footballer and manager, "The Emperor," who was named European Footballer of the Year in 1967 and described as one of the most elegant footballers of all time

Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science known for his methodology of scientific research programmes and thesis of the fallibility of mathematics

King of Hungary, Poland, and Croatia known as Louis the Great, who expanded the influence of his kingdoms across Central Europe

Hungarian inventor known for patenting the first commercially successful modern ballpoint pen

Former President of Hungary and the first president of its Constitutional Court, known for his work as a politician, jurist, and statesperson

Hungarian-American biophysicist known for his Nobel Prize-winning research on the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea, unraveling the mysteries of human hearing

French-Hungarian painter and printmaker recognized as the "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement

Catholic saint, princess, nurse, and philanthropist who dedicated her short life to aiding the poor and sick in Hungary and Germany

Hungarian-American chemist awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 for his transformative work on carbocation chemistry via superacids

First female monarch and last hereditary ruler of the Kingdom of Poland, reigning from 1384 to 1399

Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate recognized for developing radioactive tracers and co-discovering hafnium

Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and helped launch the Manhattan Project

Hungarian admiral and statesman who served as Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 to 1944 during the interwar period and most of World War II

Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic who developed the theory of reification and contributed to Western Marxism

First King of Hungary and a revered saint who established the nation's Christian identity and laid the foundations for a unified state