It is named after Mihály Csokonai Vitéz, a Hungarian poet of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Mihály Károlyi | Mihály Csokonai Vitéz | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Vitez | Mihály Varga | Mihály Táncsics | Mihály Salbeck | Mihály Lombard de Szentábrahám | Mihály Lajos Jeney | Mihály Dresch | Mihály Deák-Bárdos | Mihály Babits | Michael Vitez | Antoine Vitez |
Kölcsey's early metrical pieces contributed to the Transylvanian Museum did not attract much attention, while his severe criticisms of Mihály Csokonai Vitéz, János Kis, and especially Dániel Berzsenyi, published in 1817, rendered him very unpopular.