nr ↓ | name ↓ | Name Source ↓ |
3176 | Paolicchi | Named in honor of Paolo Paolicchi, planetary scientist, associate professor of astrophysics at the U |
3393 | Stur | Named in memory of Ľudovít Velislav Štúr (1815–1856), ideologist and organizer of the Slovak nationa |
3730 | Hurban | Named in memory of Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817–1888), poet, writer, journalist, editor, critic, hist |
9543 | Nitra | Nitra, a historical town in western Slovakia, was a the seat of prince Pribina and center of the Nit |
11014 | Svätopluk | Svätopluk (d. 894) was a famous king of the ancient Slavs and prince of Great Moravia from 871 to 89 |
13916 | Bernolák | Anton Bernolák (1762-1813) was a Catholic priest who codified the first form of the Slovak language, |
14181 | Koromházi | Beáta Koromházi is the mother of the first discoverer. |
19955 | Hollý | Ján Hollý (1785-1849) was a famous Slovak classical poet, Catholic priest and member of the Slovak r |
23718 | Horgos | Horgos is a small town in northern Serbia, near the Hungarian border. The population is mainly Hunga |
28196 | Szeged | Szeged, located in southern Hungary on the banks of Tisza river, was founded more than 750 years ago |
28492 | Marik | Miklós Marik (1936-1998) was a prominent educator and popularizer of astronomy in Hungary. He taught |
31872 | Terkán | Lajos Terkán (1887-1940) was a member of the staff of the Konkoly Observatory from 1900 to 1935. He |
38442 | Szilárd | Hungarian-American physicist Leó Szilárd (1898-1964) conceived the nuclear chain reaction and worked |
39971 | József | Attila József (1905-1937), one of the greatest Hungarian poets of the twentieth century, spent his e |
44479 | Oláheszter | Eszter (née Oláh) Kiss (1945-2004) was the beloved mother of the first discoverer. |
45300 | Thewrewk | Aurél Ponori Thewrewk (b. 1921) was director of Urania Public Observatory and Budapest Planetarium. |
64974 | Savaria | Savaria was the Roman name of the Hungarian town Szombathely, the administrative center of Vas count |
67308 | Öveges | József Öveges (1895-1979) was a teacher of physics who made physics popular to millions of people th |
68144 | Mizser | Attila Mizser (b. 1958) has been one of the leaders of Hungarian amateur astronomy for more than two |
72071 | Gábor | Hungarian-born Dénes Gábor (1900-1979) won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention and de |
73511 | Lovas | Miklós Lovas (b. 1931) has been the most successful Hungarian discoverer working in astronomy. He di |
75823 | Csokonai | Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (1773-1805) was one of the greatest Hungarian poets. His works reflect great |
82071 | Debrecen | Debrecen is the second largest city in Hungary and the regional center and capital of Hajdú-Bihar co |
82092 | Kalocsa | Birthplace of the second discoverer, Kalocsa, between the Duna and Tisza rivers and having a current |
84919 | Karinthy | Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938) was a Hungarian author, playwright, poet, journalist and translator. H |
84921 | Morkoláb | Morkoláb (or Markolaáb) is a Hungarian mythical animal that eats the sun or moon during a total ecli |
84995 | Zselic | Zselic is one of Hungary`s most beautiful wooded regions. The Zselic Landscape Protection Area has |
84996 | Hortobágy | Hortobágy, an 800-square-km national park in eastern Hungary, is Hungary's largest protected area an |
86196 | Specula | Specula is the old name for the Observatory of Eger, built in 1774 by count Károly Eszterházy (1725- |
89973 | Aranyjános | Hungarian writer, poet, journalist and translator János Arany (1817-1882) wrote more than 40 ballads |
90370 | Jókaimór | Hungarian dramatist and novelist Mór Jókai (1825-1904) was an imaginative, humorous and romantic wri |
90376 | Kossuth | Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894) was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and governor-president of H |
91024 | Széchenyi | Count István Széchenyi (1791-1860), known as “The Greatest Hungarian”, was a writer, reformer and pa |
95179 | Berkó | Ernő Berkó (b. 1955) is a Hungarian amateur astronomer interested in deep-sky objects and double sta |
95954 | Bayzoltán | Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900-1992) was a Hungarian physicist, university professor and engineer who develo |
106869 | Irinyi | János Irinyi (1817-1895) invented the “noiseless” match. An unsuccessful experiment in 1836 at the |
107052 | Aquincum | Between the first and fourth centuries Aquincum was one of the northernmost Roman garrisons in centr |
111468 | Alba Regia | Alba Regia was the Roman name of the Hungarian town Székesfehérvár, the birthplace of the second dis |
111570 | Ágasvár | Ágasvár is a 635-meter peak in the Mátra Mountains. Ágasvár hostel is the mountain station of Hunga |
111594 | Ráktanya | Ráktanya is a famed hostel in the Bakony Mountains in Hungary. In the 1990s the “Three Thousand Sta |
113203 | Szabó | Gyula M. Szabó (b. 1979) is a Hungarian astronomer and a founding member of the Szeged Asteroid Prog |
113214 | Vinkó | Hungarian astronomer József Vinkó (b. 1965) is the leader of the Bright Supernova Observing Group at |
114659 | Sajnovics | János Sajnovics (1733-1785) was a Hungarian linguist and Jesuit. He is best known for his pioneerin |
114987 | Tittel | Hungarian astronomer and professor Pál Tittel (1784-1831), director of the Eger and Buda observatori |
114990 | Szeidl | Béla Szeidl (b. 1938) was director of the Konkoly Observatory between 1974 and 1996 and president of |
114991 | Balázs | Lajos G. Balázs (b. 1941) has been the director of the Konkoly Observatory since 1996. His main fie |
115058 | Tassantal | Antal Tass (1876-1937), Konkoly Observatory director (1916-1936), played a leading role in the devel |
115059 | Nagykároly | Károly Nagy (1797-1868) was a Hungarian astronomer, mathematician, chemist and politician. His obse |
115254 | Fényi | Gyula Fényi (1845-1927) was a Hungarian Jesuit and astronomer. A most prolific observer of solar ph |
115885 | Ganz | Swiss-Hungarian technical engineer Ábrahám Ganz (1814-1867) opened an ironworks in Buda and was fath |
117086 | Lóczy | Lajos Lóczy (1849-1920) is one of the most famous Hungarian geologists. He was the first western geo |
117714 | Kiskartal | Kiskartal Observatory was founded by Baron Géza Podmaniczky in 1884. The main telescope was a 19-cm |
121817 | Szatmáry | Károly Szatmáry (b. 1956) is a Hungarian astronomer, initiator of the Szeged Observatory Foundation |
126315 | Bláthy | Hungarian electrical engineer Ottó Bláthy (1860-1939) made significant contributions to the developm |
128062 | Szrogh | György Szrogh (1915-1999) was a Hungarian architect and professor of the Hungarian University of Art |
129259 | Tapolca | Tapolca, a regional center in Hungary since the thirteenth century, is a town near Lake Balaton with |
131762 | Csonka | János Csonka (1852-1939) is one of the greatest figures of the Hungarian engineering industry. He i |
132874 | Latinovits | One of the most successful roles of Hungarian actor Zoltán Latinovits (1931-1976) was as Romeo in 19 |
133161 | Ruttkai | Éva Ruttkai (1927-1986) was a Hungarian actress. During her four-decade career, she became one of t |
133250 | Rubik | An architect and professor at the Budapest College of Applied Arts, Ernő Rubik (b. 1944) is internat |
134130 | Apáczai | János Apáczai Csere (1625-1659) was a Hungarian polyglot and mathematician, famous for his work T |
135799 | Ráczmiklós | Miklós Rácz (b. 1947) is a Hungarian physicist, the head of the technical department of the Konkoly |
136518 | Opitz | Nándor Opitz (1922-1995) was a Hungarian engineer, aviator and the first Hungarian FAI Diamond Badge |
139028 | Haynald | Lajos Haynald (1816-1891), a Hungarian cardinal and Archbishop of Kalocsa-Bács, was also a botanist |
142275 | Simonyi | Károly Simonyi (1916-2001) was a professor of electrical engineering at the Technical University of |
143579 | Dérimiksa | Miksa Déri (1854-1938) was a Hungarian electrical engineer. He was, with his partners Károly Ziperno |
145593 | Xántus | János Xántus (1825-1894) was a Hungarian scientist, traveler, ethnographer and a member of the Hunga |
147421 | Gárdonyi | Géza Gárdonyi (1863-1922) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. Although he wrote a range of works, |
151242 | Hajós | Hungarian swimmer and architect Alfréd Hajós (1878-1955) was the first modern Olympic swimming champ |
151659 | Egerszegi | Krisztina Egerszegi (b. 1974) is a Hungarian swimmer and the only woman to win five gold Olympic med |
152454 | Darnyi | Tamás Darnyi (b. 1967) is a Hungarian swimmer who won four gold medals at two Olympic Games (1988 an |
154493 | Portisch | Lajos Portisch (b. 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, who played in twenty Chess Olympiad and w |
157141 | Sopron | Sopron, a town in Hungary near the Austrian border, is the birthplace of the second discoverer. |
159629 | Brunszvik | Countess Teréz Brunszvik (1775-1861) was the founder, in 1828, of the first nursery school in Hungar |
159974 | Badacsony | Badacsony is the name of a region on the north shore of Lake Balaton in western Hungary and a town i |
160001 | Bakonybél | The ancient village of Bakonybél (founded in 1018) is located in the heart of the High Bakony Landsc |
161349 | Mecsek | Mecsek is a mountain range in southern Hungary. The mountains cover an area of approximately 500 km |
161975 | Kincsem | Kincsem was the most successful Thoroughbred race horse ever, having won 54 races for 54 starts. Bo |
163819 | Teleki | Hungarian explorer Sámuel Teleki (1845-1916) led the first expedition to Northern Kenya. He was the |
164268 | Hajmási | József Hajmási (1910-2010) was a Hungarian physicist, teacher and amateur astronomer who founded the |
166886 | Ybl | Miklós Ybl (1814-1891) was one of Hungary's most influential architects. His most well-known work is |
167341 | Börzsöny | Börzsöny is a mountain range in northern Hungary. It is the westernmost member of the North Hungari |
170900 | Jendrassik | The world's first turboprop was designed by the Hungarian mechanical engineer György Jendrassik (189 |
171118 | Szigetköz | Szigetköz is an beautiful island plain in western Hungary, part of the Little Hungarian Plain. The n |
175281 | Kolonics | György Kolonics (1972-2008) was a very talented, but modest and diligent Hungarian canoeist. Amongs |
175566 | Papplaci | László “Laci” Papp (1926-2003) was a Hungarian boxer and three-time Olympic gold medalist. He was t |
178156 | Borbála | Borbála Ujhelyi (b. 1982) is the wife of the co-discoverer Zoltán Kuli. The name Borbála is a Hunga |
180824 | Kabos | Gyula Kabos (1887-1941) was a Hungarian actor and comedian, widely known for his comedic movie roles |
180857 | Hofigéza | Géza Hofi (1936-2002), an actor and comedian, had a strong influence on Hungarian cabaret. He alway |
181298 | Ladányi | Tamás Ladányi (b. 1972) is a Hungarian amateur astronomer and a member of the “The World At Night” g |
187125 | Marxgyörgy | György Marx (1927-2002) was a Hungarian physicist and astrophysicist, a full member of the Hungarian |
190504 | Hermanottó | Ottó Herman (1835-1914) was a Hungarian zoologist, ethnographer, mineralogist, archaeologist, journa |
191341 | Lánczos | Kornél Lánczos (1893-1974) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician who had a profound impact on |
191856 | Almáriván | Iván Almár (b. 1932) is a Hungarian astronomer and space scientist, full member of the IAA, best kno |
192155 | Hargittai | Magdolna and István Hargittai are Hungarian chemists and full members of the Hungarian Academy of Sc |
194970 | Márai | Sándor Márai (1900-1989) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. He authored forty-six books, mostly |
196736 | Munkácsy | Mihály Munkácsy (1844-1900) was a Hungarian painter who lived in Paris and gained an international r |
209054 | Lombkató | Kató Lomb (1909-2003) was a Hungarian interpreter, translator and one of the first simultaneous inte |
209791 | Tokaj | Tokaj is a historic town in northern Hungary. It is the centre of the famous Tokaj-Hegyalja wine dis |
217398 | Tihany | Tihany is a historic village on the northern shore of Lake Balaton on the Tihany Peninsula. The cent |
227218 | Rényi | Alfréd Rényi (1921-1970) was a Hungarian mathematician, who worked mostly in probability theory, as |
230656 | Kovácspál | Pál Kovács (1912-1995) was a Hungarian Olympic fencer and sports leader, who began as a hurdler, but |
231278 | Kárpáti | Rudolf Kárpáti (1920-1999) was a Hungarian fencer who won six gold medals in sabre at four Olympic G |
234294 | Pappsándor | Sándor Papp (b. 1949) is a Hungarian amateur astronomer, who has made more than 100,000 visual brig |
235201 | Lorántffy | Zsuzsanna Lorántffy (1602-1660) was a Hungarian aristocrat, the wife of György Rákóczi I, prince of |
236170 | Cholnoky | Jenő Cholnoky (1870-1950) was one of the greatest Hungarian geographers and professor of geography a |
238710 | Halassy | Olivér Halassy (1909-1946) was a Hungarian water polo player and freestyle swimmer, who won two gold |
240364 | Kozmutza | Flóra Kozmutza (1905-1995) was a Hungarian educator, psychologist and high school teacher. She was a |
240697 | Gemenc | Gemenc is a forest and the only remaining tidal area of the Danube in Hungary. The native stag popu |
241363 | Érdibálint | Bálint Érdi (b. 1945) is a Hungarian astronomer and full professor at the Eötvös University (Budapes |
242523 | Kreszgéza | Géza Kresz (1846-1901), a Hungarian physician, founded the Budapest Voluntary Ambulance Society in 1 |
247542 | Ripplrónai | József Rippl-Rónai (1861-1927) was a Post-Impressionist avant-garde Hungarian painter, known for wor |
253412 | Ráskaylea | Lea Ráskay was a Hungarian nun and scholar of the 16th century. She was a member of the Dominican mo |
254846 | Csontváry | Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry (1853-1919) was a Hungarian painter who was part of the avant-garde moveme |
254876 | Strommer | Gyula Strommer (1920-1995) was a Hungarian mechanical engineer and mathematician, and a full profess |
255257 | Mechwart | András Mechwart (1834-1907) was a Hungarian industrialist who headed the Ganz factory as managing di |
265490 | Szabados | László Szabados (b. 1948) is a Hungarian astronomer and leader of the Hungarian Gaia group. His mai |
266622 | Málna | Szofia Málna Sárneczky (b. 2010) is the daughter of the discoverer. |
269232 | Tahin | Szilvia Tahin (b. 1975) is the wife of the discoverer, who has shared the frugal situation and the l |
274302 | Abaházi | Hungarian engineer Richard Abaházi (1907-1977) worked at Konkoly Observatory between 1935 and 1940. |
274810 | Fedáksári | Sári Fedák (1879-1955) was a Hungarian actress and singer, one of the most well-known prima donnas o |
276975 | Heller | Heller László (1907-1980) was a Hungarian professor, mechanical engineer, full member of the Hungari |
277106 | Forgó | Forgó László (1907-1985) was a Hungarian mechanical engineer, inventor, full member of the Hungarian |
287787 | Karády | Katalin Karády (1910-1990) was a leading actress in Hungarian movies made between 1939-1945. Her fir |
290129 | Rátzlászló | László Rátz (1863-1930) was a Hungarian mathematics teacher best known for educating John von Neuman |
303648 | Mikszáth | Kálmán Mikszáth (1847-1910) was a Hungarian novelist and journalist, whose novels contained social c |
304368 | Móricz | Zsigmond Móricz (1879-1942) was a Hungarian novelist, journalist and one of the most prominent figur |
318547 | Fidrich | Róbert Fidrich (b. 1969) is a Hungarian amateur astronomer, variable star observer and the leader of |
318694 | Keszthelyi | Sándor Keszthelyi (b. 1952) is a Hungarian architect and amateur astronomer. He is interested in var |
322912 | Jedlik | Ányos Jedlik (1800-1895) was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist and Benedictine priest. He wa |
327512 | Bíró | László József Bíró (1899-1985), Hungarian inventor of the easy-to-use writing implement generally k |
338373 | Fonóalbert | Albert Fonó (1881-1972) was a Hungarian mechanical engineer. He was one of the early pioneers of tu |
351785 | Reguly | Antal Reguly (1819-1858) was a Hungarian linguist and ethnographer notable for his contribution to t |
376694 | Kassák | Lajos Kassák (1887-1967) was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor and occasional tr |
391988 | Illmárton | Márton Ill (1930-2015) was a Hungarian astronomer and space scientist. He established the first Hung |
418891 | Vizi | Szilveszter E. Vizi (b. 1936) is a Hungarian physician, neuroscientist, pharmacologist and universit |