I have to do a presentation of famous hungarians for civilization class here at university in France. I would like to ask your help in telling me which hungarians you think are known internationally. Any help is appreciated.
Note: the assignment is for wednesday.

I did a poll on this a while back - if you can find that then it shows who's heard of which hungarians. But I'd say at least Puskas, Rubik, Bartok and Liszt are famous enough, off the top of my head.

Biro
Ferenc Puskas
Lazslo Papp
The Gabor sisters
erno Rubik

Nikola Tesla

Aren't the Cheeky Girls Hungarian? [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

Thanks Vaskez, I forgot about that.
BTW I don't think Tesla was hungarian.

Sorry Mouse, Nikola Tesla was serb, although he was born in hungarian part of austro-hungarian monarchy (in croatia to be more specific)

Famous hungarians?
Hmm, let me see..
Imre Nagy - politician
Sandor Petofi - poet
Geza Gardonyi - writer

I won't list others that were listed before, like Rubik, Puskas, Liszt...

Actually no, they're Romanian. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Well maybe Minsc...at least he has the accent...but maybe some emperor of the austrian-hungarian empire?

Sorry Mouse, Nikola Tesla was serb, although he was born in hungarian part of austro-hungarian monarchy (in croatia to be more specific)

Famous hungarians?
Hmm, let me see..
Imre Nagy - politician
Sandor Petofi - poet
Geza Gardonyi - writer

I won't list others that were listed before, like Rubik, Puskas, Liszt... </font>[/QUOTE]Wow, I'm impressed that a non-hungarian has heard of Petofi and Gardonyi! I learnt about Nagy in history in England so am not surprised about that, but I don't think Petofi ever had any of his work translated? And Gardonyi - has he had his books translated? If so, have you read "The Invisible Man" (A Láthatatlan Ember)? - It's about some young guy in the Roman Empire at the time of Attila the Hun - is a bloody good book.

Well I remember professor mentioning Petofi at history class in connection with 1848 revolution.

I actually read two of Gardonyi's books (slovene translations ofcourse), the book you mentioned and another about young boy (I think his name was Jancsi) becoming a involuntary monk. The story takes place in 16th century about 30 years after the battle at Mohacs (sp?) where Hungarians were defeated by Turks.

Wicked, didnt know Slovenian translations existed! [img]smile.gif[/img] I love novels set in that Turkish occupation of Hungary period. And Mohács is the correct spelling but I'll let you off the accent on the a ;)

What about that very rich guy? George Soros? wasnt he one of the richest stock traders in the world at some time?

He is still alive I think and IIRC he live in the US.

Thanks all of you for your help. I had the presentation today and it actually went quite well. (which is rare for me) :D