Famous Hungarians.

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7 celebrated Hungarian figures including actors, musicians, scientists, writers, athletes, and cultural stars across Hungarian history.

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Béla Bartók

Austria-Hungary

Béla Bartók began piano at age five and made his first public appearance at eleven playing his own music. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest, graduating in 1902. In 1940, to escape Nazi expansion, he moved to the United States and taught at Columbia University. He died in New York City on September 26, 1945, from polycythemia, unaware of his posthumous fame.

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