Famous Hungarians

Can you name these famous people, who were influential in Hungarian history?

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Chess Grandmaster and the only female to achieve the title	Judit Polgár
Considered to be the best Hungarian football player	Ferenc Puskás
19th century pianist and a musical composer	Ferenc Liszt
Hungarian PM during WWI	István Tisza
Communist revolutionary and 1919 leader of Hungarian soviet republic, deposed after lost war with Romania and Czechoslovakia	Béla Kun
Hungarian leader from 1920 to 1944, arguably considered by some a fascist	Miklós Hórthy
Nazi collaborator and Arrow Cross Party leader, who took power in 1944 coup overthrowing the former	Ferenc Szálasi
Prominent 30's antisemitist, who changed his view and protected Jews during Holocaust and was subsequently executed by Nazis	Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky
First communist leader of Hungary from 1948 to 1953, founder of Hungarian Workers Party (MDP) and a mass murderer	Matyás Rákosi
Communist leader of 1956 uprising, executed by Soviets	Imre Nagy
Communist leader from 1956 to 1988	János Kadár
Author of a famous puzzle cube	Ernö Rubik

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Poet and a revolutionary commander killed in 1848 revolution	Sándor Petőfi
Poet, author of Himnusz, the national anthem of Hungary	Ferenc Kölcsey
Minister of transportation during the 1848 revolution and author of the first Budapest bridge across the Danube	István Szechenyi
Prime minister during the 1848 revolution	Lájos Batthyány
Hungarian PM in the final stages of 1848-49 revolution, replacing the former	Lájos Kossuth
Best known for the 1867 Austro-Hungarian compromise, but also 1848 minister of justice, who disapproved leadership of the former	Ferenc Deák
Hungarian PM in 1867-71 and founder of Budapest	Gyula Andrássy
Prominent military commander during 1848-49 revolution, most notable for his defense of Komárom	Artúr Görgei
Nobleman, leader of 1703-11 war of independence against the Habsburg monarchy	Ferenc Rákoczi
First democratically elected president of Hungary in 1990	Árpád Göncz
Doctor who pioneered antiseptical procedures	Ignaz Semmelweis
The only Hungarian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize	Imre Kertész