Judit Polgár
b. 1976
HPI 68.2265 languages
Hungarian chess player
The Most Famous
Chess Players from Hungary
24 notable people
Trending Chess Players from Hungary This Week
The top 10 Chess Players from Hungary trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1
Judit Polgár
b. 1976
Trending in English (#112) Wikipedia (25,918 views, on Jul 20).
This page contains a list of the greatest Hungarians Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 544 Chess Players, 24 of which were born in Hungary. This makes Hungary the birth place of the 4th most number of Chess Players behind Ukraine and United States.
Top 10 Hungarian Chess Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Hungarian Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Hungarian Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Hungarian Chess Players.
#1 #2 
Susan Polgár
b. 1969
HPI 66.0550 languagesHungarian chess player
#3 
László Szabó
1917 - 1998
HPI 63.8337 languagesHungarian chess player (1917–1998)
#4 
Lajos Portisch
b. 1937
HPI 63.4727 languagesHungarian chess player
#5 
Géza Maróczy
1870 - 1951
HPI 62.8725 languagesHungarian chess player
#6 
Isidor Gunsberg
1854 - 1930
HPI 62.0925 languagesHungarian chess player
#7 
István Csom
1940 - 2021
HPI 57.3518 languagesHungarian chess player
#8 
András Adorján
1950 - 2023
HPI 56.7021 languagesHungarian chess player (1950–2023)
#9 
Győző Forintos
1935 - 2018
HPI 56.4316 languages(1935–2018) Hungarian chess player
#10 
Sofia Polgár
b. 1974
HPI 55.4628 languageschess player
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Hungarians Chess Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
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Overlapping Lives
Which Chess Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 24 most globally memorable Chess Players since 1700.
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