The Most Famous
ENGINEERS from Hungary
This page contains a list of the greatest Hungarian Engineers. The pantheon dataset contains 323 Engineers, 2 of which were born in Hungary. This makes Hungary the birth place of the 20th most number of Engineers behind Switzerland and Australia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Hungarian Engineers of all time. This list of famous Hungarian Engineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Theodore von Kármán (1881 - 1963)
With an HPI of 62.65, Theodore von Kármán is the most famous Hungarian Engineer. His biography has been translated into 39 different languages on wikipedia.
Theodore von Kármán (Hungarian: (szőllőskislaki) Kármán Tódor [(søːløːʃkiʃlɒki) ˈkaːrmaːn ˈtoːdor], born Tivadar Mihály Kármán, 11 May 1881 – 6 May 1963), was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics. He was responsible for crucial advances in aerodynamics characterizing supersonic and hypersonic airflow. The human-defined threshold of outer space is named the "Kármán line" in recognition of his work. Kármán is regarded as an outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the 20th century.
2. Loránd Eötvös (1848 - 1919)
With an HPI of 58.38, Loránd Eötvös is the 2nd most famous Hungarian Engineer. His biography has been translated into 37 different languages.
Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (or Loránd Eötvös, pronounced [ˈloraːnd ˈøtvøʃ], Hungarian: vásárosnaményi báró Eötvös Loránd Ágoston; 27 July 1848 – 8 April 1919), also called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface tension, and the invention of the torsion pendulum. In addition to Eötvös Loránd University and the Eötvös Loránd Institute of Geophysics in Hungary, the Eötvös crater on the Moon, the asteroid 12301 Eötvös and the mineral lorándite also bear his name, as well as a peak (Cima Eotvos) in the Dolomites.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as engineers born between 1848 and 1881. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased engineers include Theodore von Kármán and Loránd Eötvös.
