Journalist, media expert. He won the first tv quiz looking for newsmen in 1964. He worked for the Hungarian Television between 1969 and 1994. He won a Niemann scholarship to Harvard University, he gave lectures of journalism at Columbia University. He was the chairman of Sport TV. He was ambassador to Cuba of the Hungarian Republic since 2007.
Toolmaker. 1956: freedom fighter in the Revolution, 1958: sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment.
Army officer. 1956: freedom fighter in the Revolution.
Physicist, electrical engineer. 1956: active in the Revolution, 1957: sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment. 1990-: Mayor, Town of Debrecen.
Economist, Universiy Professor. 1964–1983: Vice-President, National Planning Bureau, 1980–1986: Minister of Finance.
Sinologist, interpreter, translator, film director. 1956: fought against the Soviets and shot a film about it.
Film director. He studied at Péter Pázmány University in Budapest in 1945–9 as a science undergraduate while simultaneously studied at the Viktor Gertler film school, which became part of the College of Drama and Cinematic Art, where he graduated as a director in 1949. He then studied on a scholarship at the College of Cinematic Art in Moscow until 1951. He began directing short films in 1949 and feature films in 1953.
Foreman, army officer. 3 November 1956: member of the Military Delegation which negotiated with Soviet military leaders brought forcibly to the Soviet Union.
politician, agronomist and bookkeeper. He became a member of the National Peasant Party in 1939. In 1954, he became a member of the Patriotic People’s Front and in 1966 a county secretary of it. He was on Borsod County Council from 1953 to 1958 and from 1971 to 1980, member of Parliament for districts of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County.
Editor. 1956: took part in rescuing of the wounded in a hospital during the Revolution, member of the post-revolutionary underground. 1959: sentenced to life imprisonment.