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Here are some of the most famous:
  • Béla Bartók, considered the greatest Hungarian composer of all time.
  • Béla Lugosi, actor who will be forever remembered and identified as Count Dracula.
  • David Gestetner, inventor of the Gestetner stencil duplicator or mimeograph machine.
  • Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb.
Drew Barrymore. Whenever Barrymore bumps into a fellow Hungarian, she is quick to mention that one of her parents is from Hungary, so she is basically a Hungarian, too. The actress's mother, Ildikó Makó, was born to Hungarian parents in a German refugee camp during WWII.
Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz in New York as the son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants. Curtis played in more than a hundred movies: Some like it hot (1959), Spartacus (1960), Goodbye Charlie (1964) etc.
Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, director and producer. Her mother was an American Jew of Hungarian immigrant parents.
Ethnic Hungarians are a mix of the Finno-Ugric Magyars and various assimilated Turkic, Slavic, and Germanic peoples. A small percentage of the population is made up of ethnic minority groups. The largest of these is the Roma (Gypsies).