Famous People with Name Erno

Erno Kolczonay            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Erno Kolczonay: was a Hungarian fencer, who has won two Olympic silver medals in the Épée competitions. Kolczonay suffered from liver disease, and died on October 4, 2009.

Erno Nagy            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Erno Nagy: was an Hungarian Olympic fencer.

Ernõ Söptei            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Ernõ Söptei: was a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the early 1950s. He finished seventh in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Erno Garami            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Erno Garami: was a Hungarian mechanic who became a social democratic politician and editor, who served as Minister of Justice in 1919.

Erno Gero            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Erno Gero: was a Hungarian Communist Party leader in the period after World War II and briefly in 1956 the most powerful man in Hungary as first secretary of its ruling communist party.In the November 1945 elections, Hungary, the Hungarian Communist Party, under Gero and Mátyás Rákosi got 17% of the vote, compared to 57% for the Smallholders' Party, but the Soviet Commander in Hungary, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov installed a coalition government with Communists in key posts. The Communists took control in 1948, with Rákosi as party leader, Prime Minister (and effective head of state), with Gero and Mihály Farkas as his right-hand men. Rákosi's authority was shaken in 1953 by the death of Stalin, when the Soviet Union insisted on Imre Nagy taking over as prime minister, but Gero was retained as a counterweight to the reformers.