Famous People with Name Gabor

Gábor Takács            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Gábor Takács: is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. Takács also finished seventh in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Gabor Steingart            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Gabor Steingart: is a German journalist and author of several popular and influential books. He is currently the chief editor of Handelsblatt, Germany's leading economic newspaper. After finishing his university studies he went to the Georg von Holtzbrinck-Schule für Wirt

Gábor Görgey            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Gábor Görgey: is a Hungarian writer, poet, director and politician, who served as Minister of Culture between 2002 and 2003. He is a descendant of the freedom fighter General Artúr Görgey who served as Minister of War during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Gábor Péter            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Gábor Péter: was a Hungarian Communist politician, of Jewish origin. Between 1945 and 1952 he was the absolute leader of the State Protection Authority (Államvédelmi Hatóság) which responsible for many cruelty, brutality and political purges.In January 1945 he was appointed as leader of the Budapest Police Main Command Political Department (PRO). Péter's career rose quickly then: he became leader of the Hungarian State Police State Protection Department (ÁVO) then the State Protection Authority (ÁVH). Under his leadership the organization committed serious illegitimacies and crimes against the humanity. Gábor Péter had big role in the organizing of the show trials.

Gábor Ugron De Ábránfalva The Younger            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Gábor Ugron De Ábránfalva The Younger: was a Hungarian politician, a member of one of the oldest noble families of Transylvania, who served as Interior Minister between 1917 and 1918. After the First World War he organized the Szekler National Council. His father was the parliamentarian representative Gábor Ugron.

Eva Gabor            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Eva Gabor: was a Hungarian-born actress, best known as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character Oliver Wendell Douglas, on Green Acres. She was the sister of Zsa Zsa Gabor and the late Magda Gabor.

William A. Gabor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William A. Gabor: is an American former professional basketball player.A 5'11" guard/forward, Gabor played collegiately at Syracuse University during the 1940s. He averaged 12.1 points per game during his freshman year before joining the United States Army Air Corps in 1943. He returned to Syracuse in 1945 and played three more seasons, finishing with a (then) team-record 1,344 career points.

Zsa Zsa Gabor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Zsa Zsa Gabor: is a Hungarian-born American actress and socialite.Following studies at a Swiss boarding-school, Gabor won the Miss Hungary beauty contest in 1936. On a trip to Vienna in the same year, she was discovered by the famous tenor Richard Tauber and was invited to sing the soubrette rôle in his new operetta Der singende Traum ("The Singing Dream") at the Theater an der Wien, her first stage appearance. Gabor reportedly had a romance with a composer named Willi Schmidt-Kentner, according to the 1960 "bio-autobiography" Zsa Zsa Gabor, by Gerold Frank. Her initial fame came from her work as an actress, and grew from her public appearances in the 1970s and 1980s.

Bori Gábor            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Bori Gábor: is a Hungarian footballer currently playing for MTK. He is seen as a player with a very bright future in Hungary.Bori made his league debut in an M69 derby on 12 January, making four crosses and five shots as Leicester won 2-0 at the Walkers Stadium.

Tamás Gábor            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Tamás Gábor: was a Hungarian épée fencer. In World Championships competition, Gabor’s individual medals were a bronze in 1961 and a silver in 1962. In Team competitions he won 3 medals: silver in 1957 and 1958, and gold in 1959.