People who shaped the city

Arthur Koestler

• Centrál Grand Café

Georg Lukács

• Fiume Road Graveyard

George Soros

Imre Kertész

• Fiume Road Graveyard

Karl Mannheim

• Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Robert Capa

• Hungarian National Museum

Susan Polgar

Áron Tamási

• Hungarian Writers' Association Headquarters

Árpád Tóth

• Árpád Tóth’s Castle District Home

Benedek Virág

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Virág Benedek House and Lost Home Site

Dezső Kosztolányi

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Former Journalists’ Home Circle

Dezső Szabó

• Former Philadelphia Café Site

Dezső Szomory

• Former Fiume Café
• Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery

Endre Ady

• Ady Endre Memorial Museum
• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Former Meteor Hotel and Café

Ernő Szép

• Former Seemann Café
• Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery

Ferenc Molnár

• Ferenc Molnár's Childhood Home
• New York Café
• The Paul Street Boys Sculpture

Ferenc Móra

• Britannia Hotel and Zsolnay Café

Frigyes Karinthy

• Centrál Grand Café
• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Frigyes Karinthy’s Former Home

Géza Gárdonyi

• Former Valéria Café

Gül Baba

• Tomb of Gül Baba

Gyula Krúdy

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Former Belvárosi Café at Matild Palace
• Former Fiume Café

Jenő Rákosi

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Former Journalists’ Home Circle

Jenő Rejtő

• Former Simplon Café
• Writers' Bookshop and the Former Japán Café

József Attila

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Former EMKE Café
• József Attila Memorial Place

József Kiss

• Centrál Grand Café

Lajos Kassák

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Former Simplon Café

Mór Jókai

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• University Square

Oszkár Gellért

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Former Seemann Café

Pál Pap

• Former Belvárosi Café at Matild Palace

Sándor Bródy

• Fészek Artists' Club
• Former Journalists’ Home Circle
• Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery

Sándor Márai

• Sándor Márai’s Final Budapest Home

Sándor Petőfi

• Hungarian National Museum
• Petőfi Bridge
• Pilvax Passage and Café

Theodor Herzl

• Dohány Street Synagogue

Viktor Rákosi

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Former Fiume Café

Zoltán Ambrus

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Former Valéria Café

Zoltán Zelk

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Former Simplon Café

Zsigmond Móricz

• Britannia Hotel and Zsolnay Café
• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Former Seemann Café

Albert Szent-Györgyi

• Hungarian National Museum

Andrew II of Hungary

• Buda Castle

Empress Elisabeth of Austria

• Belvedere Tower in the Buda Hills
• Elisabeth Bridge
• Erzsébet tér

Giorgio Perlasca

Posing as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary and saving 5,218 Jews from deportation to Nazi extermination camps.

• Former Spanish Legation

János Kádár

• Fiume Road Graveyard

László Sólyom

• Fiume Road Graveyard

Mátyás Rákosi

• Farkasréti Cemetery

Pál Schmitt

Abdurrahman Abdi Pasha

• Abdurrahman Abdi Pasha Memorial

Ángel Sanz Briz

• Former Spanish Legation

Arslan Pasha

• Király Thermal Bath

Carl Lutz

• Carl Lutz Memorial

Carl-Ivan Danielsson

• Former Swedish Legation on Minerva Street

Ferenc Vezér

• Gellért Hill Cave Church

Ilona Tóth

• Tóth Ilona Memorial House

Imre Nagy

• Former Yugoslav Embassy, now Serbian Embassy
• Imre Nagy Memorial House
• Imre Nagy Statue at Jászai Mari Square

István Angyal

• István Angyal Park
• Plot 301, National Park of Mourning
• Tűzoltó Street Resistance Memorial

István Széchenyi

• Buda Castle Tunnel
• Former Óbuda Shipyard on Hajógyári Island
• Széchenyi Chain Bridge

Józef Bem

• Bem József Square and Statue

József Mindszenty

• United States Embassy and Mindszenty Refuge

Károly Eötvös

• Former Balaton Café

Lajos Kossuth

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Former Landerer and Heckenast Printing House
• Kossuth Square

Mihály Károlyi

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Former Balaton Café

Miklós Wesselényi

• Miklós Wesselényi Flood Hero Relief

Pál Maléter

• Plot 301, National Park of Mourning

Per Anger

• Former Swedish Legation on Minerva Street

Péter Mansfeld

• Péter Mansfeld Memorial in Mansfeld Park

Raoul Wallenberg

• Former Swedish Legation on Minerva Street
• Raoul Wallenberg Memorial in Szent István Park
• Raoul Wallenberg's Last Budapest Refuge

Saint Margaret of Hungary

• Dominican Convent Ruins on Margaret Island

Sámuel Silye

• Éles Corner Resistance Memorial

Sándor Bali

• Former Headquarters of the Greater Budapest Central Workers’ Council

Sándor Rácz

• Former Headquarters of the Greater Budapest Central Workers’ Council

Sokollu Mustafa Pasha

• Király Thermal Bath
• Veli Bej Bath

Vilma Bernovits

• Stigma – Vilma Bernovits Memorial

Vilmos Langfelder

• Raoul Wallenberg's Last Budapest Refuge

Ernő Rubik

• Hungarian National Museum

Adam Clark

• Buda Castle Tunnel
• Széchenyi Chain Bridge

Ágost Gerstenberger

• Museum of Electrical Engineering

Alfréd Hajós

• Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium
• Császár-Komjádi Béla Sports Swimming Pool
• Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery

Béla Lajta

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery
• Parisiana Night Club Façade at the New Theatre

Béla Löffler

• Orthodox Jewish Community Courtyard

Elemér Sajó

• Kvassay Lock and Sluice Complex

Emil Ágoston

• Former Hungária Bath Façade at Continental Hotel
• Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery

Ernest Goüin

• Margaret Bridge

Ferenc Brein

• Pékáry House

Ferenc K. Császár

• Dandár Thermal Bath
• Farkasréti Cemetery

Frigyes Feszl

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Pesti Vigadó

György Kévés

• Kokárda Catacomb Memorial Chapel

György Masirevich

• Palatinus Thermal and Open-Air Bath

Győző Czigler

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Gozsdu Courtyard
• Saxlehner Palace

István Janáky

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Palatinus Thermal and Open-Air Bath

János Feketeházy

• Budapest-Keleti
• Eiffel Art Studios
• Liberty Bridge

János Lohr

• Former Káldy Gyula Street Prayer House

József Hild

• Veli Bej Bath

Károly Arvé

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Museum of Electrical Engineering

Lajos Darvas

• Dagály Thermal Bath

Lipót Baumhorn

• Dózsa György Street Synagogue
• Hegedűs Gyula Street Synagogue
• Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery

Miklós Ybl

• Buda Castle
• Cathedral of the Assumption
• Fiume Road Graveyard

Pál Álgyay-Hubert

• Petőfi Bridge

Pál Sávoly

• Elisabeth Bridge
• Farkasréti Cemetery

Sándor Löffler

• Orthodox Jewish Community Courtyard

Vilmos Freund

• Royal Spa at Corinthia Budapest
• Salgotarjani Street Jewish Cemetery

William Tierney Clark

• Széchenyi Chain Bridge

Béla Bartók

• Béla Bartók Memorial House
• Béla Bartók’s Former Home on Szilágyi Dezső Square
• Farkasréti Cemetery

Frank Zappa

• Former Tilos az Á
• Tabán Concert Bowl

Franz Liszt

Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist known for his Romantic piano works, the symphonic poem and innovations in musical form and performance.

• Bem Rockpart
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences Palace
• Pesti Vigadó

Gustav Mahler

• Gustav Mahler's Budapest Home

Ádám Török

• Bem Rockpart

András Lovasi

• Former Fekete Lyuk Club

Ditta Pásztory-Bartók

• Béla Bartók’s Former Home on Szilágyi Dezső Square
• Farkasréti Cemetery

Dušan Sztevanovity

• Former Metro Club at the Árkád Bazaar

Ferenc Sebő

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Former Kassák Club
• TEMI Metropolitan Cultural House

Gábor Presser

• Tabán Concert Bowl

György Szabados

• Former Kassák Club

Gyula Farkas

• Rajkó Orchestra and Music School

Gyula Nagy

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Former Fekete Lyuk Club

János Bihari

• Park of Roma Musicians

Jenő Hubay

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Jenő Hubay Music Hall

Pál Szigeti

• Rajkó Orchestra and Music School

Panna Czinka

• Park of Roma Musicians

Pista Dankó

• Park of Roma Musicians

Sándor Rozsnyai

• Former Arizona Nightclub at Mai Manó House

Tibor Szemző

• Former Kassák Club

Zoltán Kodály

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences Palace
• Kodály körönd

Zorán Sztevanovity

• Former Metro Club at the Árkád Bazaar

Eugene Paul Wigner

• Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Central Building

Ferenc Puskás

• Farkasréti Cemetery

Flórián Albert

• Farkasréti Cemetery

Georg von Békésy

• Farkasréti Cemetery

George Andrew Olah

• Fiume Road Graveyard

George de Hevesy

• Fiume Road Graveyard

George Pólya

• Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Central Building

Ignaz Semmelweis

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Semmelweis Museum of Medical History

John von Neumann

• Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Central Building

Judit Polgár

Paul Erdős

• Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Central Building
• Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery

Amrita Sher-Gil

• Farkasréti Cemetery

Alajos Stróbl

• Várkert Bazár

Anna Stein

• Crying to the Sky Memorial

Barnabás Holló

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Miklós Wesselényi Flood Hero Relief

Gábor Miklós Szőke

• Doboz

Jenő Haranghy

• Britannia Hotel and Zsolnay Café
• Farkasréti Cemetery

József Schneider

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Wichmann House and Former Pub

Károly Lotz

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Saxlehner Palace

Virág Tóth

• Former Kék Ló Fashion Pub

Harry Houdini

• Farkasréti Cemetery

Zsa Zsa Gabor

• Fiume Road Graveyard

András Borgula

• Gólem Center

Gizi Bajor

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Gizi Bajor Actors' Museum

Lujza Blaha

• Blaha Lujza tér
• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Former EMKE Café

Miss Arizona

• Former Arizona Nightclub at Mai Manó House

Sári Fedák

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Site of the Former Király Theatre

Dennis Gabor

• Franz Liszt Memorial Museum and Research Center

Edward Teller

• Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Central Building

László Bíró

• Hungarian National Museum

Leó Szilárd

• Fiume Road Graveyard

János Molnár

• Malom Lake and Molnár János Cave

Vilmos Zsigmondy

• Fiume Road Graveyard
• Margaret Island Japanese Garden and Thermal Waterfall
• Széchenyi Thermal Bath

Johnny Weissmuller

• Csillaghegyi Árpád Bath

Sándor Kocsis

• Farkasréti Cemetery

Béla Komjádi

• Császár-Komjádi Béla Sports Swimming Pool
• Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery

István Bárány

• Csillaghegyi Árpád Bath

Tamás Wichmann

• Farkasréti Cemetery
• Wichmann House and Former Pub

Béla Zsitkovszky

• Uránia National Film Theatre

Mór Ungerleider

• Király Street 25–29 Heritage Houses
• Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery