Famous People with Name Bela

Béla Viktor János Bartók            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Béla Viktor János Bartók: was a Hungarian composer and pianist, considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology.

Béla Berger            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Béla Berger: was a Hungarian-Australian chess master.He took 5th in the Hungarian Championship at Budapest 1953 (Béla Sándor won).[1] In 1954, he played for Hungary "B" at fourth board in 1st Triennial Cup in Budapest.

Béla Schick            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Béla Schick: was a Hungarian-born American pediatrician. He is the founder of the Schick test. Was born in Balatonboglár, Hungary [1], and brought up in Graz, Austria[2], where he attended medical school. In 1902 he joined the Medicine Faculty of the University of Vienna where he remained until 1923. Studying problems of immunity, he and a colleague first coined the term 'allergy' as a clinical entity. His discovery of a test for susceptibility to diphtheria (“the Schick test”)[3] made him world famous. From 1923 he directed the Pediatric Department of Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. From 1936 he was also professor at Columbia University. From 1950 to 1962 Schick headed the Pediatric Department of Beth-El Hospital, Brooklyn, NY. His later interests included the nutrition of the newborn and feeding problems in children.

Béla Szabados            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Béla Szabados: was a Hungarian composer. He first studied composition and the piano with Gyula Erkel, later with Robert Volkmann, Hans Koessler and Sándor Nikolits. In 1888 he joined the staff of the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art as accompanist and coach, and in 1893 was appointed piano teacher and coach at the reorganized Academy of Music.

Béla Bugár            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Béla Bugár: a Magyar (ethnically Hungarian) politician in Slovakia. He was the leader of Party of the Hungarian Coalition from 1998 until 2007, with Pál Csáky as his successor. Bugar is since 1992 MP of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. He was its acting speaker from 7 February, to 4 July 2006. Béla Bugár has already announced that he is going to retire from politics by 2010.