In September 2013, Yad Vashem declared an Egyptian doctor, Mohamed Helmy, one of the Righteous Among the Nations for saving the life of Anna Gutman (née Boros), putting himself at personal risk for three years, and for helping her mother Julie, her gradmother Cecilie Rudnik, and her stepfather Georg Wehr, to survive the holocaust.
In 1986, Boros settled (with T. Szőnyi) a conjecture by Beniamino Segre about the cyclic structure of finite projective planes, and in 1988 provided the best known bound for a question posed by Paul Erdős about blocking sets of Galois planes.
In the windy 1963 U.S. Open near Boston, Boros defeated Arnold Palmer and Jacky Cupit in a playoff, after all had finished the 72 holes at a post-war record nine over par.
The families of Hungarian nobility that are known to have lived in Tiszadob at one point in time: Andrássy, Aranyász, Balogh, Baráth, Batta, Bódogh, Boros, Czegledy, Czihát, Dancs, Doby (ancient family), Görgei, Jánossy, Kazai, Lakatos, Monoky (ancient family), Pápai, Péchy, Porkoláb, Székes, Szük, Tóth and Zákány.