Mathematician, university professor. He has worked at the University of Arizona.

After failing several times to get into university, Szervánszky became a labourer and later a freelance journalist, TV editor and disc jockey. He left Hungary in 1979 and took casual work in Paris before receiving political asylum in Sweden. There he was a labourer again, an oil-rig worker in Norway, and then a student of philosophy and sociology at the University of Stockholm. He later settled in Switzerland, working as a hotel porter in Lugano. He repatriated in 1991.

Economist, university professor, 1956: met the Commander of the Corvin Passage Fighter Group as the representative of Budapest University.

Medical doctor, anatomist, university professor. 1956: Chairman, Revolutionary Committe of Intellectuels, Town of Pécs. 1976–1985: President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1985-: MP.

He started working as an editor for Hungarian Television in 1966 and also made some documentary films of his own. He left the country in 1970, moving first to Italy and then to Sweden, before eventually receiving political asylum in the United States. There he failed to make contact with the film industry, but found work in the offices of the Hungarian-language American paper Népszava.

Engineer. 56: took over the leadership of Dimávag Wagon and Machine Factory during the Revolution, 1958: sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment.

Lawyer, regional development consultant. He worked for the City Council of Budapest since 1979. 1988-90: Secretary of the City Council, 1990-92: City Clerk, 1996-98: Executive Director of the National Land Development Center, 2004-05: President of the Hungarian Regional Development Office.

Diplomat. A member of the illegal Hungarian Communist Party from 1941 onwards, he was vice-president of the Hungarian Democratic Youth Organization (MADISZ) and a staff member of the central communist daily Szabad Nép after 1945. He was then first secretary at the Hungarian Embassy in Berne until 1949, then on the staff of the Foreign Ministry. In 1956, he was appointed Hungarian ambassador in Beijing.

Rocker, drummer. He left Hungary and settled with his wife in West-Germany, then in Australia since 1981. He lived again in Hungary in 1986-1987 and 1992-1996.

Son (chauffeur), and Szabó, Magda (b. 1956). daughter (tailor), of Lajos Szabó, a freedom fighter in the Hungarian Revolution who was executed in 1959.