List of people from Bács-Kiskun

The following are people who were either born/raised or have lived for a significant period of time in Bács-Kiskun.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

The arts

Art

• Ede Telcs – sculptor

Film

• Kálmán Latabár – actor, comedian

Literature

• János Hornyik – historian
• József Katona – author
• Ferenc Móra – novelist
• Sándor Petőfi – Hungarian national poet
• Kálmán Tóth – poet

Music

• Zoltán Kodály – composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist and philosopher
• Emma Sándor – composer, wife of Zoltán Kodály

Theater

• László Kelemen – president of the first Hungarian Theater

Aviation and space exploration

• Béla Magyari – cosmonaut

Exploration

• András Jelky – a man who traveled around the world in a strange way (1730–1783)

Military

• András Gáspár – Hungarian general
• Lázár Mészáros – Hungary's first Minister of War
• István Türr – Giuseppe Garibaldi's general

Public office

• László Berkecz – mayor of Soltvadkert
• Sándor Font  – member of the National Assembly

Science and medicine

• József Bayer – member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Jenő Ernst – doctor, biologist, member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Dénes Jánossy – mailing member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Dezső Miskolczy – explorer of the mental disease, member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

See also

• List of Hungarians