Budapest

: See Budapest (band) for the British musical group

Important figures

• Franz Xaver von Zach 1754 born in Pest, astronomer
• Ignaz Semmelweis born 1818 in Buda, physician
• Árpád Doppler born in 1857 in Budapest, composer
• George de Hevesy born in 1885 in Budapest, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1943)
• Georg Lukács born in 1885 in Budapest, philosopher
• Fritz Reiner born in 1888 in Budapest, conductor
• Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrapolt born in 1893 in Budapest, Nobel Prize winner biologist, first isolated and described the vitamin C
• Karl Mannheim in 1893 in Budapest, philosopher
• George Szell in 1897 in Budapest, conductor
• Leó Szilárd born in 1898 in Budapest, developed the nuclear bomb
• Béla Bartók lived from 1899 to 1940 in Budapest, composer
• László József Bíró born in 1899, developed the biro
• Ferenc Puskás born in 1927 in Budapest, soccer player
• Imre Kertész born in 1929 in Budapest, author, Nobel Prize 2002
• George Soros (Soros György) born in 1930 in Budapest
• Ern? Rubik born in 1944 in Budapest, developed Rubik's Cube
• Péter Esterházy born in 1950 in Budapest, author
• Zoltán Kocsis born in 1952 in Budapest, pianist
• Zoltán Kodály lived and died 1967 in Budapest, composer