Famous People with Name Kornel

Kornél Dávid            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kornél Dávid: is a Hungarian professional basketball player. He was the first and only Hungarian to play in the NBA. He has played for four teams between 1998 and 2001.

Kornél Havasi            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Kornél Havasi: was a Hungarian chess master.He won at Budapest 1911; took 9th at Temesvár 1912 (HUN-ch, Gyula Breyer won); tied for 4-5th at Budapest 1917 (Breyer won); took 4th at Budapest 1918 (Zoltán von Balla and Richard Réti won); tied for 9-11th at Kaschau (Košice) 1918 (Réti won); tied for 1st-2nd with Szávay at Budapest 1920; took 6th at Gyula 1921 (Borislav Kostic won).

Kornel Morawiecki            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kornel Morawiecki: was the founder and leader of Fighting Solidarity (Polish: Solidarnosc Walczaca) one of the more radical splinters of Solidarity movement in Poland, during the 1980s.[1] His academic background is that of a theoretical physicist.[2]He was the son of Michal and Jadwiga (née Szumanska). He graduated from the gimnazjum of Adam Mickiewicz in 1958 in Warsaw. He finished a higher degree in physics at the University of Warsaw in 1958. He finished his doctorate under Jan Rzewuski in Quantum Field Theory in 1970. He worked as a researcher at the University of Wroclaw, at first in the Institute of Physics, later in Mathematics. After 1973, he worked at the Wroclaw Polytechnic.

Kornel Makuszynski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kornel Makuszynski: was a Polish writer of children's and youth literature.He was buried at the Peksowe Brzysko cemetery in Zakopane, where he lived from 1945. There is a museum dedicated to him there.His children's books have an enduring popularity in Poland, whatever the sharp changes in the country's fortunes and its political system. They have been translated to many other languages. Among others, they are very popular in Israel, where Polish Jewish immigrants since the 1920s and 1930s took care to have many of them translated to Hebrew and introduced them to their own children.

Kornél Kulcsár            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Kornél Kulcsár: is a Hungarian football player who currently plays for Kaposvári Rákóczi FC.

Mads Korneliussen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Mads Korneliussen: is an international speedway rider in the British Elite League for the King's Lynn Stars.