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Chess Grandmaster and the only female to achieve the title
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Judit Polgár
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Considered to be the best Hungarian football player
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Ferenc Puskás
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19th century pianist and a musical composer
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Ferenc Liszt
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Hungarian PM during WWI
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István Tisza
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Communist revolutionary and 1919 leader of Hungarian soviet republic, deposed after lost war with Romania and Czechoslovakia
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Béla Kun
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Hungarian leader from 1920 to 1944, arguably considered by some a fascist
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Miklós Hórthy
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Nazi collaborator and Arrow Cross Party leader, who took power in 1944 coup overthrowing the former
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Ferenc Szálasi
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Prominent 30's antisemitist, who changed his view and protected Jews during Holocaust and was subsequently executed by Nazis
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Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky
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First communist leader of Hungary from 1948 to 1953, founder of Hungarian Workers Party (MDP) and a mass murderer
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Matyás Rákosi
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Communist leader of 1956 uprising, executed by Soviets
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Imre Nagy
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Communist leader from 1956 to 1988
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János Kadár
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Author of a famous puzzle cube
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Ernö Rubik
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Poet and a revolutionary commander killed in 1848 revolution
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Sándor Petőfi
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Poet, author of Himnusz, the national anthem of Hungary
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Ferenc Kölcsey
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Minister of transportation during the 1848 revolution and author of the first Budapest bridge across the Danube
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István Szechenyi
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Prime minister during the 1848 revolution
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Lájos Batthyány
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Hungarian PM in the final stages of 1848-49 revolution, replacing the former
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Lájos Kossuth
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Best known for the 1867 Austro-Hungarian compromise, but also 1848 minister of justice, who disapproved leadership of the former
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Ferenc Deák
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Hungarian PM in 1867-71 and founder of Budapest
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Gyula Andrássy
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Prominent military commander during 1848-49 revolution, most notable for his defense of Komárom
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Artúr Görgei
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Nobleman, leader of 1703-11 war of independence against the Habsburg monarchy
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Ferenc Rákoczi
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First democratically elected president of Hungary in 1990
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Árpád Göncz
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Doctor who pioneered antiseptical procedures
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Ignaz Semmelweis
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The only Hungarian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize
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Imre Kertész
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