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unusual facts about Hungarian people



2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

Hungarian György Kolonics, who holds the (men's) record for paddlers currently in competition, won the fourteenth gold medal of his career in the C-2 1000 m final.

Alice Lok Cahana

Cahana was one of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors whose story was featured in the Steven Spielberg 1999 Academy Award winning documentary movie, The Last Days.

Anastasia Razvalyaeva

Anastasia Razvalyaeva (Hungarian: Razvaljajeva Anasztázia, Russian: Анастасия Разваляева, Murmansk, 1986) Russian-Hungarian harpist.

Andor Toth, Jr.

(1948–2002) was an American cellist in the strong Central European, Berlin, and Hungarian traditions, bringing to the public a clear aural vision of structure in the music he played, while channeling the emotional character of that music into the hearts of his listeners.

András Hadik

According to another source, he was of Hungarian ethnic origin, but the name "Hadik" is a diminutive from the Slovak appellative had 'snake', the family was thus of Slovak extraction.

Attila Szekrényessy

Attila Szekrényessy (born 20 January 1913 in Budapest, Hungary; died February 1995 in Gyöngyös) was a Hungarian pair skater who competed with his sister Piroska Szekrényessy.

Bergheim, Haut-Rhin

The majority of people who immigrated at that times were Swiss, German, Hungarian, Austrian, or Romanian.

Bethlen, son of Lőrinc

Bethlen, son of Lőrinc (12th century) was a Hungarian nobleman, ancestor of the Bethlen and Apafi families.

Charles Korvin

The Hungarian actor (born Géza Korvin Kárpáthy) moved to the United States in 1940 after studying at the Sorbonne.

Chemoton

The chemoton is an abstract model for the fundamental unit of life introduced by Hungarian theoretical biologist Tibor Gánti.

Demographics of Hungary

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Eduard Mahler

Eduard Mahler, or Mahler Ede (September 28, 1857, Cífer, Austro-Hungarian Empire – June 29, 1945, Újpest) was a Hungarian-Austrian astronomer, Orientalist, natural scientist.

Evanivaldo Castro

With the team he reached the semi-finals in the 84-85 season, under the management of Hungarian coach Árpád Fekete.

François Pelletier

His act inspired the construction of the purported chess-playing automaton The Turk, following observation of the performance by the Hungarian Wolfgang von Kempelen.

Great Kurultáj

The Great Kurultáj or briefly Kurultáj is a traditional Hungarian event which takes place every two years in Bugac.

Hu Chi'er

He was not of Chinese origin, and some historians believe he may have come from a Slavic background, although others assert it is much more probable that he was of Magyar, Hun or Persian ancestry.

Hungaroring

The first race was held on March 24, 1986, in memory of János Drapál, the first Hungarian who won motorcycle Grand Prix races.

Immigration to Turkey

One is the case of Hungarians claimed to have taken refuge in Gebze in early 19th century, and whose descendants might be among the inhabitants of Gebiz municipality depending Serik district in Antalya Province (see Karapinar).

International Chamber Music Festival of Cervo

The International Chamber Music Festival of Cervo was inaugurated in 1964, the brainchild of the renowned Hungarian violinist Sandor Vegh.

Irene Zisblatt

Zisblatt was one of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors whose story was featured in the 1999 Academy Award winning documentary movie, The Last Days.

Ivan Paskevich

On the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 he was appointed to command the Russian troops sent to aid Austria, and finally compelled the Hungarians' surrender at Világos.

János Görbe

János Görbe born as Görbe János (November 12, 1912, Jászárokszállás - September 5, 1968, Budapest) was a prominent Hungarian actor of film and theater.

Josef Maria Horváth

Josef Maria Horváth (born 20 December 1931 in Pécs, Hungary) is a Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor.

Kirby Chambliss

Since 2005, he takes part at the international aerobatic competition Red Bull Air Race World Series as a member of the Red Bull Team along with his team mate Hungarian Péter Besenyei.

László Jávor

László Jávor was a Hungarian poet who wrote the poem that was the basis for the jazz standard "Gloomy Sunday", composed by Rezső Seress, later also notably recorded by Billie Holiday.

Magyar tribes

The high princes were either elected by the leaders of the tribes or appointed by the Khagan of the Khazars who had been exerting influence over the Magyars.

Metaphorical code-switching

An example of metaphorical code-switching comes from conversation recorded by Susan Gal in Oberwaert, an Austrian town that is home to many ethnic Hungarians.

Mihály Fincicky

Mihály Fincicky (Csepely, 22 September 1842 – Ungvár 1916) was a Hungarian lawyer, translator, collector of folk-songs and folk-poets, mayor of Ungcár.

Mya Diamond

Mya Diamond (born Júlia Koroknai; 11 April 1981) is a Hungarian pornographic actress and nude model, who starred in Porn Wars.

Pál Bajai

Pál Bajai, O.F.M., was a Hungarian Franciscan friar of the Observant reform and spiritual writer during the 18th century.

Pope Benedict VI

There is a letter dated to Benedict’s reign from Piligrim, Bishop of Passau, asking for Benedict to confer on him the Pallium, and make him a Bishop so that he could continue his mission to convert the Hungarian people to Christianity.

Raeapteek

Between 1579 and 1581, a Hungarian immigrant named Johann Burchart Belavary de Sykava, moved to Tallinn from his home town of Pressburg (present day Bratislava) and obtained a lease from the city council to run the business of the pharmacy.

Ralph Korngold

In Paris Korngold met a Hungarian woman named Piri Helen Ozer, whom he married in 1936 following the finalization of his divorce.

Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire

More recently, there has been a large immigration of Iraqi-Kurds, Hungarians and Romas (Gypsies) into the area.

Richárd Erdős

Richárd Erdős (Brno, 18 May 1881 - Frankfurt, 9 June 1912) was a Jewish Hungarian bass opera singer who was father of the American children's author Richard Erdoes.

Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche

Jolán Földes, a Hungarian author, lived on this street in 1930, and gave its name to one of her novels: A halászó macska uccája, which is the literal translation of the name in Hungarian.

Ruzsa

:This article is about the village of Ruzsa, for the Hungarian singer, see Magdolna Rúzsa, for the mathematician, see Imre Z. Ruzsa

Selen

Well-known male porn actors she had intercourse with on more than one occasion include Rocco Siffredi, Zensa Raggi, Don Fernando and the Hungarians Frank Gun and Jolth Walton.

Silesian cuisine

It has been influenced by cuisines of many nations, particularly (alphabetically) Czech, German, Hungarian, and Polish.

Szilvia Freire

She is of mixed Hungarian and Portuguese heritage; her mother is Hungarian and her father was born in Mozambique to Portuguese parents.

Tamás Artner

Tamás Artner (born 25 April 1970) is a Hungarian football manager and former player, who is currently the manager of Szombathelyi Haladás.

Tethysaurus

The name means "Tethys' lizard of Nopsca", a reference to the Greek goddess of the sea Tethys (also the name of the Tethys Ocean, an ancient sea between southern Europe and northern Africa) and to the Hungarian paleontologist Baron Ferenc Nopsca, who made pioneering studies on Adriatic aquatic squamates.

WCSB

The station also airs news and information oriented toward many of the ethnic groups represented in Greater Cleveland: Latin, Hispanic, German, Hungarian, Polish, Irish, Macedonian, Arabic, and Slovenian.

Wessobrunn Abbey

In 955 the abbey was destroyed by the Hungarians, on which occasion Abbot Thiente and six of his monks suffered martyrdom, while the remaining three fled to Andechs with the sacred relics.


see also

Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak

U.S. President Jimmy Carter ordered extensive historical research to verify the crown as genuine, and it was returned to the Hungarian people on January 6, 1978.

Hungary national rugby union team

The badge on the shirt derives from the Csodaszarvas, a mythological stag that led the ancient Hungarian people to the Pannonian Basin.