The Kossuth Prize (, ) is a state-sponsored award in
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
, named after the Hungarian politician and revolutionist
Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (; ; ; ; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and governor-president of the Kingdom of Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, r ...
. The Prize was established in 1936, by the
Hungarian National Assembly, to acknowledge outstanding personal and group achievements in the fields of science, culture and the arts, as well as (during the
Hungarian People's Republic
The Hungarian People's Republic (HPR) was a landlocked country in Central Europe from its formation on 20 August 1949 until the establishment of the current Hungary, Republic of Hungary on 23 October 1989. It was a professed Communist_state# ...
) in the building of
socialism
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in general.
Since 1963, the domain has been restricted to culture and the arts. Today, it is regarded as the most prestigious cultural award in Hungary, and is awarded by the
President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film and television
*'' Præsident ...
.
Recipients
Note: This is not a complete listing.
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Aladár Rácz (1948)
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Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály (, ; , ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education.
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(1948)
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István Csók (1948 and 1952)
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Ferenc Erdei (1948 and 1962)
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Milán Füst
Milán Füst (17 July 1888, Budapest – 26 July 1967, Budapest) was a Hungary, Hungarian writer, poet and playwright.
Biography
Early in life, his family lived on Dohány utca in the 7th district of Budapest.
In 1908 he met the writer Ernő Os ...
(1948)
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Gizi Bajor (1948)
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Pál Turán
Pál Turán (; 18 August 1910 – 26 September 1976) also known as Paul Turán, was a Hungarian mathematician who worked primarily in extremal combinatorics.
In 1940, because of his Jewish origins, he was arrested by History of the Jews in Hun ...
(1948 and 1952)
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Géza Zemplén (1948)
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Béla Balázs (1949)
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Jenő Egerváry (1949)
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Annie Fischer (1949, 1955, 1965)
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József Marek (1949)
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Ferenc Mérei (1949)
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Ági Mészáros (1949, 1954)
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Hilda Gobbi (1949)
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Józsi Jenő Tersánszky (1949)
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Sándor Veress (1949)
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Fódor Gábor Bela (1950)
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László Kalmár
László Kalmár ( ; 27 March 1905, Edde – 2 August 1976, Mátraháza) was a Hungarian mathematician and Professor at the University of Szeged. Kalmár is considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science in Hun ...
(1950)
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Kálmán Latabár (1950)
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Péter Veres (1950, 1952)
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Leó Weiner (1950, 1960)
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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. He was the father of actress Nóra Görbe, star of the popular 80's TV series, "Lin ...
(1951)
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László Heller (1951)
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László Lajtha (1951)
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Rózsa Péter
Rózsa Péter, until January 1934 Rózsa Politzer, (17 February 1905 – 16 February 1977) was a Hungarian mathematician and logician. She is best known as the "founding mother of recursion theory".
Early life and education
Péter was bor ...
(1951)
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Dezső Winkler (1951)
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Klári Tolnay (1951 and 1952)
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Zoltán Földi (1952)
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Margit Dajka (1952)
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Sándor Jávorka (1952)
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Tibor Szele
Tibor Szele (21 June 1918 – 5 April 1955) Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics and abstract algebra
In mathematics, more specifically algebra, abstract algebra or modern algebra is the study of algebraic structures, which ...
(1952)
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Éva Szörényi (1952)
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Margit Dajka (1952)
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Miklós Gábor (1953)
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Hanna Honthy (1953)
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Ferenc Bessenyei (1953 and 1955)
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Andor Ajtay (1954)
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Jenő Barcsay (1954)
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Gyula Gózon (1954)
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Péter Kuczka (1954)
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Lajos Bárdos
Lajos Bárdos (1 October 1899 – 18 November 1986) was a composer, conductor, music theorist, and professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, Hungary, where he had previously studied under Albert Siklós and Zoltán Ko ...
(1955)
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István Eiben (1955)
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Ferenc Ecker (1955)
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Zoltán Fábri
Zoltán Fábri (15 October 1917 – 23 August 1994) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His films ''The Boys of Paul Street'' (1969) and ''Hungarians (film), Hungarians'' (1978) were nominated for the Academy Awa ...
(1955)
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Albert Fonó (1956)
*Gyula Kaesz (1956)
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László Ranódy (1956)
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Jenő Ádám (1957)
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Miklós Borsos (1957)
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Manyi Kiss (1957)
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László Németh (1957)
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Mária Sulyok (1957)
Zimmermann Ágoston1957)
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László Fejes Tóth
László Fejes Tóth (, ; 12 March 1915 – 17 March 2005) was a Hungarian mathematician who specialized in geometry. He proved that a lattice pattern is the most efficient way to pack centrally symmetric convex sets on the Euclidean plane (a ge ...
(1957)
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Mór Korach (1958)
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Tátrai Quartet (1958)
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Éva Ruttkai (1960)
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Leo Weiner (1960)
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Iván Berend (1961)
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Tibor Czibere (1962)
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István Vas (1962, 1985)
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Ákos Császár (1963)
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Dénes Kovács
Dénes Kovács (18 April 1930 – 11 or 14 February 2005) was a Hungarian classical violinist and academic teacher, described as "pre-eminent among Hungarian violinists". He won the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition in 1955. In his care ...
(1963)
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Alexander Radó
Alexander Radó (also ''Alexander Radolfi'', ''Sándor Kálmán Reich'', ''Alexander Rado''; born Sándor Radó, ; 5 November 1899 – 20 August 1981) was a Hungarian cartographer who later became a Soviet Union, Soviet military Intelligence (i ...
(1963)
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Robert Ilosfalvy (1965)
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Pál Lukács
Pál Lukács (; 27 April 1919 in – 22 May 1981) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian viola virtuoso, concert and recording artist, and music educator.
Lukács studied voice, and also violin with Imre Waldbauer at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music ...
(1965)
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László Nagy (1966)
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Imre Sinkovits (1966)
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Sándor Szokolay (1966)
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Irén Psota (1966 and 2007)
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Erzsébet Házy (1970)
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Péter Komlós (1970)
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György Kurtág (1973)
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Líviusz Gyulai (1973)
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Miklós Jancsó
Miklós Jancsó (; 27 September 192131 January 2014) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
Jancsó achieved international prominence starting in the mid-1960s with works including ''Szegénylegények, The Round-Up'' ...
(1973), (2006)
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Ferenc Sánta (1973)
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Mari Törőcsik (1973, 1999 and 2019)
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Miklós Erdélyi (1975)
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Magda Szabó
Magda Szabó (5 October 1917 – 19 November 2007) was a Hungarians, Hungarian novelist. Doctor of philology, she also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memoirs, poetry and children's literature. She was a founding member of the , an online dig ...
(1978)
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Iván Darvas (1978)
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Erzsébet Galgóczi (1978)
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Sándor Sára
Sándor Sára (28 November 1933 – 22 September 2019) was a Hungarian cinematographer and film director. He directed 16 films between 1962 and 2004. His film '' The Upthrown Stone'' was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, b ...
(1978 and 2018)
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Dezső Ránki (1978 and 2008)
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Zoltán Kocsis
Zoltán Kocsis (; 30 May 1952 – 6 November 2016) was a Hungarian pianist, conducting, conductor and composer.
Biography
Studies
Born in Budapest, he began his musical studies at the age of five and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conser ...
(1978)
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János Pilinszky (1980)
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Iván Markó
Iván Markó (29 March 1947 – 21 April 2022) was a Hungarian Choreography, choreographer and ballet dancer.
Biography
Markó was born in Balassagyarmat. He studied Dance, dancing at the Hungarian State Ballet Institute in Budapest. After ha ...
(1983)
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László Márkus (1983)
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Géza Ottlik (1985)
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András Szőllősy (1985)
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Dezső Garas (1988)
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Iván Mándy
Iván Mándy (23 December 1918 in Budapest – 6 October 1995 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer.
Biography
From 1945 on Mándy worked at the literary revue Újhold. After the Soviet takeover he became a freelance writer. In 1989 he got again t ...
(1988)
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Miklós Szentkuthy (1988)
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Sandor Marai (1989)
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György Cserhalmi (1990)
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Sándor Csoóri (1990)
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Ernő Dohnányi
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*Ernő Balogh (1897-1989), Hungarian pianist, composer, editor, and educator
*Ernő Bánk (1883-1962), Hunga ...
(1990)
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Imre Makovecz (1990)
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Ferenc Farkas
Ferenc Farkas (; 15 December 1905 – 10 October 2000) was a Hungary, Hungarian composer.
Biography
Born into a musical family (his father, Aladár Farkas, was an Olympian and soldier who played the cimbalom and his mother played the piano) i ...
(1991)
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István Gaál (1991)
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Sándor Szabó (1991)
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Elemér Ragályi (1991)
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Péter Nádas
Péter Nádas (born 14 October 1942) is a Hungarian writer, playwright, and essayist.
Biography
He was born in Budapest into a Jewish family, the son of László Nádas (originally Nussbaum) and Klára Tauber. After the takeover of the Hung ...
(1992)
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István Ágh (1992)
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Sándor Kányádi (1993)
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Sándor Reisenbüchler (1993)
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Ferenc Ban (1994)
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György Faludy (1994)
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Tamás Lossonczy (1994)
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Adrienne Jancsó (1995)
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Péter Esterházy (1996)
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József Király (1996)
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György Petri (1996)
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András Schiff
Sir András Schiff (; born 21 December 1953) is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist and conductor. He has received numerous awards and honours, including the Grammy Award, Gramophone Award, Mozart Medal, and Royal Academy of Music Bac ...
(1996)
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Bartók String Quartet (1997)
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Péter Gothár
Péter Gothár (born 28 August 1947) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 23 films since 1974. His film '' The Outpost'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard
(; 'A Certain Glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Fe ...
(1997)
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Jenő Jandó
Jenő Jandó (; 1 February 1952 – 4 July 2023) was a Hungarian pianist and Professor of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He was the first house pianist for Naxos Records and recorded more than 60 albums.
Background and education
...
(1997)
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Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was ...
(1997)
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Ferenc Zenthe (1997)
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Éva Marton (1997)
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Géza Hofi (1998)
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Györgyi Szakács (1998)
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Dezső Tandori (1998)
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József Gregor (1999)
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János Kass (1999)
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Márta Sebestyén (1999)
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Károly Eperjes (1999)
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Péter Korniss (1999)
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József Soproni (1999)
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Lívia Gyarmathy (2000)
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Miklós Kocsár (2000)
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Gáspár Nagy (2000)
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Géza Böszörményi (2000)
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János Bródy (2000)
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Enikő Eszenyi
Enikő Eszenyi (born 11 January 1961) is a Hungarian actress and theater director, recipient of Kossuth Prize (2001). She appeared in 1991's '' Paths of Death and Angels''.
Selected filmography
* '' Night Rehearsal'' (1983)
* '' Eldorado'' (1 ...
(2001)
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Zoltán Jeney (2001)
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Margit Bara (2002)
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Péter Eötvös (2002)
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El Kazovsky (2002)
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Aladár Pege (2002)
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András Bálint (2003)
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Ádám Bodor
Ádám Bodor (born 22 February 1936 in Cluj) is a Hungarian author of Transylvanian Hungarian origin.
Life and writing
Bodor was born in Romania to a staunchly anti-communist father and was himself an anti-communist. In his youth he believed ...
(2003)
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Éva Janikovszky
Éva Janikovszky (April 23, 1926 in Szeged – July 14, 2003 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer.
She wrote novels for both children and adults, but she is primarily known for her children's books, translated into 35 languages. Her first book ...
(2003)
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György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde music, avant-garde composers in the latter half of the ...
(2003)
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László Marton (2003)
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Béla Tarr
Béla Tarr (born 21 July 1955) is a Hungarian filmmaker. Debuting with the film '' Family Nest'' (1979), Tarr began his directorial career with a brief period of what he refers to as "social cinema", aimed at telling everyday stories about ordi ...
(2003)
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Amadinda Percussion Group (2004)
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Gergely Bogányi (2004)
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Líviusz Gyulai (2004)
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László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai (; born 5 January 1954) is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter known for difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, with dystopian and melancholic themes. Several of his works, including his novels '' Sat ...
(2004)
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Andrea Rost (2004)
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Gyula Bodrogi (2005)
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Zoltán Kocsis
Zoltán Kocsis (; 30 May 1952 – 6 November 2016) was a Hungarian pianist, conducting, conductor and composer.
Biography
Studies
Born in Budapest, he began his musical studies at the age of five and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conser ...
(2005)
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György Szomjas (2005)
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Pál Závada (2005)
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Eszter Csákányi (2006)
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Iván Fischer
Iván Fischer (born 20 January 1951) is a Hungarian conductor and composer.
Biography
Born in Budapest into a musical family of Jewish heritage, Fischer initially studied piano, violin, cello and composition in Budapest. His older brother, ...
(2006)
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János Herskó (2006)
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János Kulka (2006)
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György Spiró (2006)
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Erzsébet Szőnyi (2006)
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Zorán Sztevanovity (2006)
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Nelly Vágó (2006)
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László Gálffi (2007)
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Gábor Görgey (2007)
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András Kern (2007)
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Ferenc Kósa (2007)
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András Ligeti (2007)
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Miklós Perényi (2007)
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Ernő Rubik (2007)
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Judit Elek (2008)
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János Fajó (2008)
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Ádám Fischer (2008)
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Zsuzsa Koncz (2008)
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Péter Kovács (2008)
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Dezső Ránki (2008)
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Mihály Balázs
Mihály Balázs (born 1948) is a Hungarian Catholic historian and professor of religious history at the University of Szeged. He is widely regarded as an expert on the religious history of Hungarian-speaking Transylvania
Transylvania ( or ; ...
(2009)
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Gábor Máté (2009)
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László Rajk Jr. (2009)
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Pál Sándor (2009)
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Endre Tot (2009)
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Tamás Féner (2010)
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Gyula Maár (2010)
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Ferenc Rados (2010)
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László Vidovszky
László Vidovszky (born Békéscsaba, Hungary, 25 February 1944) is a Hungary, Hungarian composer and pianist. During the 1970s he began composing works in a minimalist music, minimal style. His music has been influential on the music of Györ ...
(2010)
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Agota Kristof (2011)
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István Nemeskürty
István Nemeskürty (14 May 1925 – 8 October 2015)
Origo.hu was a Hungarian historian, writer, scree ...
(2011)
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István Orosz
István Orosz (born 24 October 1951) is a Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director. He is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphose ...
(2011)
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Judit Reigl (2011)
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Ferenc Rofusz (2011)
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György Szabados (2011)
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Ákos Kovács (2012)
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Éva Schubert (2013)
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Zoltán Gera
Zoltán Gera (born 22 April 1979) is a Hungarian former professional Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder for Fulham F.C., Fulham, Pécsi Mecsek FC, Pécsi Mecsek and Harkány SE, as well as enjoying two spells at Ferencv ...
(2013)
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Vera Pap (2013)
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Omega
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(2013)
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Ferenc Snétberger (2014)
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Kati Kovács (2014)
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Pál Mácsai (2014)
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Atilla Kiss B. (2014)
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Fecó Balázs (2016)
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László Nemes
László Nemes (born Nemes Jeles László; ; 18 February 1977) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His 2015 debut feature film, ''Son of Saul,'' was screened in the main competition at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the ...
(2016)
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Ildikó Komlósi (2016)
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Géza Röhrig (2016)
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Sylvia Sass (2017)
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László Tahi Tóth (2017)
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Károly Frenreisz (2017)
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Cecília Esztergályos (2018)
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Teri Tordai (2018)
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Feró Nagy (2021)
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Gábor Harsányi (2021)
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Anna Adamis (2023)
References
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Hungarian awards
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1948 establishments in Hungary