Famous People with Name Karoly

Károly Szegedi            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Károly Szegedi: is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1970s.

Károly Wieland            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Károly Wieland: is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the mid to late 1950s. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, he won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event.

Károly Beregfy            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Károly Beregfy: was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence between 1944–45.He also served as Chief of Army Staff. Beregfy declared Hungary a manoeuvre area on 30 October and subordinated all attainable human and economical resources to the war. On 30 April 1945 he was captured by American troops. Before the People's Tribunal he denied his guilt throughout. The court did not accept his arguments (Beregfy referred to disability and compulsion) and sentenced him to death. Beregfy was hanged on 12 March 1946 along with Ferenc Szálasi, Gábor Vajna, former Interior Minister in the Arrow Cross Party's cabinet and József Gera, who was a Hungarist ideologist.

Károly Polinszky            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Károly Polinszky: was a Hungarian chemical engineer and politician, who served as Minister of Education between 1974 and 1980.

Károly Grósz            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Károly Grósz: was a Hungarian communist politician.He joined the Communist Party in 1945 at the age of 14. Soon the Communists had established a regime in Hungary, and Grósz rose through the party ranks, becoming an important party leader in his native region. In 1974 he was appointed head of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda of the governing Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party.In 1979 Grósz was elected first secretary of the party committee of his home county. In 1984 he returned to national prominence as the head of the party committee in Budapest. At the next Party Congress in 1985, he became a member of the Politburo. In 1987, he was appointed (Prime Minister of Hungary (Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary) to succeed György Lázár, who had filled the post for more than eleven years.

Jeno Károly            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Jeno Károly: was a Hungarian footballer and later manager born in Budapest, outside of his homeland he is particularly noted for being the first manager of Agnelli-era Juventus. As a player, Károly appeared for two local Budapest clubs, including the powerful MTK Buda

Béla Károlyi            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Béla Károlyi: is a world-renowned Romanian gymnastics coach. He possesses Romanian and American citizenship. Together with his wife, Márta, (sometimes called Martha), Károlyi has coached both the United States and Romanian Olympic teams to medal success. He was born in Cluj, Romania.

Márta Károlyi            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Márta Károlyi: is a Romanian gymnastics coach of Hungarian ethnicity. Together with her husband, Béla, Károlyi has trained nine Olympic champions, fifteen world champions, sixteen European medalists and six U.S. national champions, including Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Kerri Strug, Teodora Ungureanu, Nadia Comaneci, Kim Zmeskal and Dominique Moceanu.

Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi: was briefly Hungary's leader in 1918-19 during an ill-fated spell of democracy. He served as Prime Minister between November 1-16, 1918 and as President between November 16, 1918 – March 21, 1919.The Károlyi family were an illustrious extremely wealthy, Roman Catholic aristocratic family that had played an important role in Hungarian life since the 17th century. He was born in Fót, Austria-Hungary in what is today Hungary. In his youth, he had been a wastrel, but as he grew older, he became determined to devote himself to more serious pursuits. In 1909, he became the President of the OMGE (National Agricultural Society), the main rural organization of the nobility. Initially, a supporter of the existing political and social system in Hungary, Károlyi gradually drifted ever more and more left-wing during his career.