* 1922 – Géza Vermes, Hungarian author and scholar

In 1671, Swedish scholar Georg Stiernhielm commented on the similarities of Sami, Estonian and Finnish, and also on a few similar words between Finnish and Hungarian, while the German scholar Martin Vogel tried to establish a relationship between Finnish, Sami, and Hungarian.

* Matthias Bel ( 1684 – 1749 ), Hungarian scholar, polymath and Lutheran pastor

The project is endorsed by a diverse and international group of supporters, including former Dutch prime-minister Jan-Peter Balkenende from the Christian Democratic Appeal ; Rita Süssmuth from the Christian Democratic Union ; the Hungarian dissident and philosopher György Bence ; British political scholar David Miller ; and others.

She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Stanford University, and at the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.

She befriended another wandering refugee, a Jewish Hungarian scholar from Budapest named Lob who gave her an education and a name: Modesty ( Blaise she added herself later, after Merlin's tutor from the Arthurian legends ).

Joel ( Yoel ) Teitelbaum, () ( born January 18, 1887-died August 19, 1979 ) known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav ( or Rebbe ), was a Hungarian Hasidic rebbe and Talmudic scholar and founder of the Satmar Hasidic dynasty.

Ignác ( Yitzhaq Yehuda ) Goldziher ( June 22, 1850 – November 13, 1921 ), often credited as Ignaz Goldziher, was a Hungarian scholar of Islam.

A Hungarian scholar documented the arrival of corn in Timişoara, in the Banat in 1692.

Several decades later the Hungarian scholar Edward Rehatsek left an English translation, but one not published until over a half-century later.

Work considered foundational to the discipline of Comparative Literature include Transylvanian Hungarian Hugo Meltzl de Lomnitz's scholarship, also the founding editor of the journal Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum ( 1877 ) and Irish scholar H. M. Posnett's Comparative Literature ( 1886 ).

After World War II, the discipline developed to a large extent owing to one scholar in particular, Peter Szondi ( 1929 – 1971 ), a Hungarian who taught at the Free University Berlin.

Károly ( Carl, Karl ) Kerényi ( January 19, 1897 – April 14, 1973 ) was a Hungarian scholar in classical philology, one of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology.

Antal Szerb ( May 1, 1901, Budapest-January 27, 1945, Balf ) was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer.

The codex was studied by the Hungarian scholar Ferenc Toldy around 1840, and later by Pál Hunfalvy, but with no result.

The Hungarian scholar Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, writing in 1833, provided the first geographic account of " a fabulous country in the north ... situated between 45 ' and 50 ' north latitude ".

Géza Vermes or Vermès (, born 22 June 1924 ) is a British scholar of Jewish Hungarian origin and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian.

* Samuel Löw Brill, Hungarian rabbi and Talmud scholar

More recently, Dr Istvan Perczel, a Hungarian scholar researching Syrian Christians in India, found that certain texts survived the destruction of Syriac religious writings by the Portuguese missionaries.

Rabbi Solomon Aaron Wertheimer ( November 18, 1866-1935 ), was a Hungarian rabbi, scholar, and seller of rare books.

Kellner was born in Manhattan, New York to a psychologist / photographer mother and a squash player / Greek classics scholar father who was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant.

* 1907 – László Heller, Hungarian engineer ( d. 1980 )

* 1935 – László Garai, Hungarian scientist and psychologist

* 1901 – László Németh, Hungarian writer ( d. 1975 )

* 1959 – László Szlávics, Jr., Hungarian sculptor

Itten was replaced by the Hungarian designer László Moholy-Nagy, who rewrote the Vorkurs with a leaning towards the New Objectivity favored by Gropius, which was analogous in some ways to the applied arts side of the debate.

László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, was frustrated by the amount of time that he wasted in filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages, and the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore the paper.

* 1989 – Protests break out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.

* Falstaff, a Hungarian TV movie based on Henry IV, part 1 and Henry IV, part 2, prepared by László Vámos and Péter Müller

Among others, Hungarian historian and archaeologist Gyula László claims that geological data from pollen analysis seems to contradict placing the ancient homeland of the Magyars near the Urals.

* 1939 – László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat

While László Polgár has been credited with being an excellent chess coach, the Polgárs had also employed professional chessplayers to train their daughters, including Hungarian champion IM Tibor Florian, Hungarian GM Pal Benko and Russian GM Alexander Chernin.

* 1926 – László Papp, Hungarian boxer ( d. 2003 )

* 1457 – László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior ( b. 1433 )

* 1993 – Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect ( b. 1900 )

* 1984 – László Köteles, Hungarian footballer

* January – László Antal, Hungarian linguist ( b. 1930 )

* March 26 – László Papp, Hungarian boxer ( d. 2003 )

** László Lajtha, Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor ( b. 1892 )

** László Benedek, Hungarian film director ( b. 1905 )

** László Csizsik-Csatáry, Hungarian nazi

* February 25 – László Bodnár, Hungarian footballer

* June 25 – László Antal, Hungarian linguist ( d. 1993 )

* March 16 – László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior ( b. 1433 )

** László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior ( d. 1457 )