Famous People with Name Ferenc

Ferenc Kölcsey            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Ferenc Kölcsey: was a Hungarian poet, literary critic, orator, and politician, noted for his support of the liberal current inside the Habsburg Empire. He wrote the national anthem of Hungary in 1823.From 1832 to 1835 he sat in the Hungarian Diet, where his extreme liberal views and his eloquence soon rendered him famous as a parliamentary leader. Elected on November 17, 1830 a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, he took part in its first grand meeting; in 1832, he delivered his famous oration on Kazinczy, and in 1836 that on his former opponent Dániel Berzsenyi. In 1838, when the opposition leader Miklós Wesselényi was thrown into prison upon a disputed charge of treason, Kölcsey conducted his defense with noted eloquence, but without success. He died about a week afterwards at Cseke, from internal inflammation.

Ferenc Marschall            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Ferenc Marschall: was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture for two months in 1938.

Ferenc Aurél Pulszky De Cselfalva Et Lubócz            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Ferenc Aurél Pulszky De Cselfalva Et Lubócz: was a Hungarian politician and writer.Elected to the Diet of Hungary of 1840, he was in 1848 appointed to a financial post in the Hungarian government, and was transferred in like capacity to Vienna under Esterházy. Suspected of intriguing with the revolutionists, Pulszky fled to Budapest to avoid arrest. Here he became an active member of the committee of national defence, and when obliged to fly the country he joined Lajos Kossuth in England and with him made a tour in the United States. In collaboration with his wife he wrote a narrative of this voyage, entitled White, Red, Black (3 vols., London, 1853).

Ferenc Somogyi            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Ferenc Somogyi: is a former Hungarian Ambassador to the United States.His appointment to that position was announced in September 2004. Previously, he was the deputy ambassador to the United Nations during the 1980s in Hungary's communist government, and was a telephone company executive during the 1990s. In late 2007, Mr. Somogyi was appointed Hungarian Ambassador to the United States.

Ferenc Székely            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Ferenc Székely: was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Justice between 1910 and 1917. He also served as interim Minister of Religion and Education in 1910.

István "Stan" Ferenczi            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

István "Stan" Ferenczi: is a Hungarian international football striker, currently playing for Ferencváros. He is a 6'3" target man standing. He has scored goals in a number of countries including England, Turkey, Germany and his native Hungary. Istvan Ferenczi signed for Barnsley

Béni Ferenczy            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Béni Ferenczy: was a Hungarian sculptor and graphic artist.After his experiences with cubism first and with expressionism later, his art evolved in sculptures with emphasized forms. While a highly talented sculptor he was one the most accomplished graphic artists in Hun

István Ferenczy            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

István Ferenczy: was a nineteenth century Hungarian sculptor.Inspired by his progressive artistic education, Ferenczy returned to Hungary in 1824. where by the 1830s he had modelled the portraits ("Ürmélyi", "Rudnay", "Kazinczy", etc.), tombs ("Kulcsár", "Szánthó", "Forna