The Most Famous

ASTRONAUTS from Hungary

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This page contains a list of the greatest Hungarian Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Hungary. This makes Hungary the birth place of the 30th most number of Astronauts behind Afghanistan, and Syria.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Hungarian Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Hungarian Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Bertalan Farkas (b. 1949)

With an HPI of 52.06, Bertalan Farkas is the most famous Hungarian Astronaut.  His biography has been translated into 37 different languages on wikipedia.

Bertalan Farkas (Hungarian: [ˈfɒrkɒʃ ˈbɛrtɒlɒn], born August 2, 1949) is the first Hungarian cosmonaut, space explorer and fighter pilot. Hungary became the seventh nation to be represented in space by him. Farkas is also the first Esperantist cosmonaut. He is currently the president of Airlines Service and Trade. Following his mission, Hungarian-American Károly Simonyi (Charles Simonyi) was the second Hungarian astronaut – the only person in the entire world who has been twice in space as a space tourist and who had paid for himself for the spaceflights. The next Hungarian astronaut will travel to the International Space Station by 2025.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Hungarian astronauts born between 1949 and 1949. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Hungarian astronauts include Bertalan Farkas.

Living Hungarian Astronauts

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