Schwarz, inventor of the Zeppelin Charles Weissmann, biochemist Eugene Wigner (Wigner Jenő), physicist and Nobel laureate (parents were Lutheran by religion) Gabor A. Somorjai (Hungarian-American) the "father" of modern surface-chemistry, leading world-expert on heterogeneous catalysis by metal surfaces Nobel Prize winners Robert Bárány (1914) - Medicine György Hevesy (George de Hevesy) (1943) - Chemistry (born Roman Catholic) Jenő Wigner (Eugene Wigner) (1963) - Physics (Lutheran convert) Dénes Gábor (Dennis Gabor) (1971) - Physics (Lutheran convert) Milton Friedman (1976) - Economics János Polányi (John Charles Polanyi) (1986) - Chemistry (born Roman Catholic) Elie Wiesel (1986-2016) - Peace János Harsányi (John Harsanyi) (1994) - Economics (born Roman Catholic) Imre Kertész (2002) - Literature Ferenc Herskó (Avram Hershko) (2004) - Chemistry Physicists Dennis Gabor Theodore von Kármán John von Neumann Paul Nemenyi Leó Szilárd Edward Teller László Tisza Eugene Wigner Social scientists Peter Thomas Bauer, economist Milton Friedman, his parents emigrated from Beregszász, then in Hungary. Frank Furedi, sociologist John Harsanyi, economist, game theory; Nobel laureate (born Roman Catholic, from a Jewish background) Nicholas Kaldor, British economist János Kornai, economist Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840–1899), educationist and orientalist Karl Mannheim sociologist, Adolf Neubauer, Hebraist Karl Polanyi, economist and philosopher Mathematicians Raoul Bott (ethnically Jewish through mother) Arthur Erdélyi Paul Erdős Lipót Fejér Michael Fekete László Fuchs Tibor Gallai Géza Grünwald Alfréd Haar Paul Halmos László Kalmár John Kemeny Dénes Kőnig Gyula Kőnig Imre Lakatos Kornél Lőwy (Cornelius Lanczos) Peter Lax John von Neumann (Roman Catholic convert) Rózsa Péter George Pólya Tibor Radó Alfréd Rényi Frigyes Riesz Marcel Riesz Lajos Schlesinger Otto Szász Gábor Szegő Peter Szüsz Pál Turán Abraham Wald Eugene Wigner Music Composers Pál Ábrahám Károly Goldmark Gábor Darvas André Hajdu, composer, educator Imre Kálmán (Emmerich Kálmán) György Kurtág (half Jewish) Sándor Kuti, composer György Ligeti Miklós Rózsa, composer Rezső Seress Sándor Vándor, composer, educator László Weiner, composer Leó Weiner, composer Pál Hermann, composer, virtuoso cellist Conductors Ádám Fischer Ivan Fischer Ferenc Fricsay (half Jewish through mother) György Justus, composer, musicologist, choir master István Kertész Jenő Ormándy (Eugene Ormandy) Fritz Reiner Sir Georg Solti György Széll (George Szell) Musicians Pál Budai, pianist, composer Ádám Fischer, conductor Peter Frankl, pianist Endre Granat, violinist István Kertész, conductor Ervin Nyiregyházi, pianist (half Jewish through mother) György Pauk, violinist Tommy Ramone, drummer for The Ramones (born Erdélyi Tamás) János Sándor, conductor Ervin Schiffer, violist György Schiffer, cellist Georg Solti, conductor Mark Freuder Knopfler, guitar, Dire Straits, Performers