Hungarian poets

Milán Füst (1888–1967) was a Hungarian writer, poet and playwright.

Ágnes Nemes Nagy (January 3, 1922 – August 23, 1991) was a Hungarian writer, educator and translator.

Gábor Dayka (March 21, 1769, Miskolc - October 20, 1796, Ungvár) was a Hungarian poet.

Paul I, Prince Esterházy of Galántha (full German name: Paul Fürst Esterházy von Galantha; full Hungarian name: galánthai herceg Esterházy Pál) (8 September 1635 – 26 March 1713) was the first Prince Esterházy of Galántha from 1687 to 1713, Palatine of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1681 to 1713, and an Imperial Field Marshal.

Lajos Parti Nagy (Szekszárd, October 12, 1953 –) Kossuth Prize winner Hungarian poet, playwright, writer, editor, critic, one of the founding members of the Digital Literary Academy.

József Katona (11 November 1791, Kecskemét – 16 April 1830, Kecskemét) was a Hungarian playwright and poet, creator of the Hungarian drama: author of the legendary historical tragedy: Bánk bán.

(The native form of this personal name is Márai Sándor. This article uses the Western name order.) Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára, archaically English: Alexander Márai; 11 April 1900 – 21 February 1989) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.

János Batsányi (May 9, 1763 in Tapolca – May 12, 1845 in Linz) was a Hungarian poet.

Lajos Kassák (March 21, 1887, Érsekújvár – July 22, 1967, Budapest) was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde, and occasional translator.

Ádám Bodor (born February 22, 1936 in Cluj) is an award-winning Hungarian author of Transylvanian Hungarian origin.

Sebestyén "Lantos" Tinódi (c. 1510 in Tinód – 30 January 1556 in Sárvár) was a 16th-century Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel.

Géza Szőcs (born 21 August 1953) is an ethnic Hungarian poet and politician from Transylvania, Romania, who served as Secretary of State for Culture of the Ministry of National Resources in Hungary from 2 June 2010 to 13 June 2012.

György Petri (22 December 1943 – 16 July 2000) was a Hungarian poet.

Baron Miklós Istvánffy de Baranyavár et Kisasszonyfalva (Latin: Nicolaus Istuanfius; 8 December 1538 – 1 April 1615) was a Hungarian politician, Humanist historian and poet, who served as Palatinal Governor of Hungary (Hungarian: nádori helytartó) from 19 January 1582 to November 1608.

(The native form of this personal name is József Attila. This article uses the Western name order.) Attila József (Hungarian: [ˈɒtːilɒ ˈjoːʒɛf]; 11 April 1905 – 3 December 1937) was a Hungarian poet of the 20th century.

Miklós Zrínyi or Nikola Zrinski (Hungarian: Zrínyi Miklós, Croatian: Nikola Zrinski; 5 January 1620 – 18 November 1664) was a Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman and poet.

András Fáy (30 May 1786 – 26 July 1864), Slovak: Andrej Fáy, was a Hungarian author, lawyer, politician and businessman.

Árpád Tóth (14 April 1886 in Arad - 7 November 1928 in Budapest) was a Hungarian poet and translator.

Károly Fellinger (born 1963) is a Hungarian poet, writer, local historian living in Slovakia.

Baron Péter Révay de Szklabina et Blathnicza (used aliases of his name include Révai, Rewa, Réva; 2 February 1568 – 4 June 1622) was a Hungarian nobleman, Royal Crown Guard for the Holy Crown of Hungary, poet, state official, soldier and historian.

János Petki de Ders (1572 – 23 October 1612) was a Hungarian noble and poet in the Principality of Transylvania, who served as Chancellor of Transylvania from March 1607 to 31 March 1608.

Ferenc Tóthárpád (Ferenc Tóth Árpád, Szombathely, 17 February 1958) is a Hungarian poet, writer, editor, journalist and andragogist, a well-known author of children's literature.

Simon Bacher (Hungarian: Bacher Simon; February 1, 1823, Liptovský Mikuláš - November 9, 1891, Budapest) was a Hungarian Neo-Hebraic poet.

Attila Végh (born Budapest 13 February 1962) is a Hungarian poet, philosopher and essayist.

Hugó Veigelsberg (2 November 1869, Pest – August 3, 1949, Budapest) was a noted Hungarian editor and writer who usually published under the pen name Ignotus (Latin for "unknown").

Sándor Reményik (30 August 1890, Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary – 24 October 1941, Kolozsvár) was a Hungarian poet.

András Gerevich (born 1976 in Budapest) poet, screenwriter and literary translator.

Ágnes Gergely (born 1933) is a Hungarian writer, educator, journalist and translator.

Ádám Nádasdy (born 15 February 1947) is a Hungarian linguist and poet.

George Gomori (Hungarian: Gömöri György) born 3 April 1934, is an award-winning Hungarian-born poet, writer and academic.

Zsuzsa Nyertes (14 December 1958, Budapest) is a Hungarian actress.

István Péter Németh (Hungarian: Németh István Péter) is a Hungarian poet and literary historian.

Petőcz began his career in literary life in 1981.

Ágoston Pável, also known in Slovenian as Avgust Pavel (28 August 1886, Cankova, Kingdom of Hungary, today in Slovenia – 2 January 1946, Szombathely, Hungary) was a Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian.

The native form of this personal name is Rapai Ágnes.

Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk (8 September 1896 – 11 February 1987) was a Hungarian Jewish psychotherapist, poet and communist.

Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmihaːj ˈt͡ʃokonai ˈviteːz]; archaically English: Michael Csokonai Vitez; 17 November 1773 - 28 January 1805) was a Hungarian poet, a main person in the Hungarian literary revival of the Enlightenment.

József Kossics, also known in Slovene as Jožef Košič (around October 9, 1788, Bogojina, Austria-Hungary – December 26, 1867, Felsőszölnök), was a Hungarian-Slovenian writer, Catholic priest, ethnologist, linguist, poet, and historian.

Tibor Tollas (or with full name Tibor Kecskési Tollas) (Nagybarca, Hungary 21 December 1920 – Munich, Germany 19 July 1997) was a Hungarian poet, chief editor of the newspaper Nemzetőr.

Charles Sirato (26 January 1905 – 1 January 1980, Budapest) was a Hungarian poet, art theorist, and translator.

Balázs Birtalan (October 12, 1969 – May 14, 2016) was a Hungarian author, poet, publicist, and psychotherapist, mostly known for his participation in the gay Christian movement in Hungary.

Tamás Tűz (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈtɒmaːʃ ˈtyːz]; 18 April 1916 – 7 April 1992) was a Hungarian poet, writer, Catholic priest.

Solomon Löwisohn, (Hebrew: שלמה לויזון‎‎, Hungarian: Lőwisohn Salamon; 1788, Mór, District of Stuhlweissenburg, Kingdom of Hungary - April 27, 1821, Mór) was a Jewish Hungarian historian and poet.

László Ladányi (October 24, 1907, Budapest – January 8, 1992, Tel-Aviv) was a poet, author, dramatist and reporter.

Endre Kukorelly (born April 26, 1951) is a Hungarian writer, poet and journalist.

Baron Lajos Dóczi, aka Dóczy (Hungarian: Dóczi Lajos, báró, German: Ludwig (Louis) Dóczy (born "Dux"), November 29 (November 30), 1845, Sopron (Oedenburg) - August 28, 1918, Budapest) was a Jewish (later Christian) Hungarian poet, journalist.

János Garay (10 October 1812 – 5 November 1853) was a Hungarian poet and author, was born in Szekszárd, Tolna County.

Ferenc Faludi (uitgepoept in Güssing on 11 April 1704; died in Rechnitz on 18 December 1779) was a Hungarian poet who has been referred to as "the father of the new Hungarian lyric.

Ferenc Istvan Dénes Gyula Békássy (7 April 1893 – 22 June 1915) was a Hungarian poet killed in World War I.

István Cs. Bartos (Hungarian: Bartos Cs. István, pronounced [ˈbɒrtoʃ ˈt͡ʃeː ˈiʃtvaːn]; AKA Bartos the Great Human Muck Pit) is a Hungarian performance artist and spoken word performer mostly known for his acts in which he eats dirt, garbage, raw meat, animal cadavers, excrement and drinks his own urine representing the decay of human condition.

Alexander Lenard (Hungarian: Lénárd Sándor; Latin: Alexander Lenardus; (Budapest, 9 March 1910 – Dona Emma, Brazil, 13 April 1972) was a Hungarian physician, writer, translator, painter, musician, poet and occasional language instructor. He was born in Budapest, Hungary and died in Dona Irma (Dona Emma), in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is best known as the Latin translator of A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh (Winnie Ille Pu). He wrote fiction and non-fiction in German, Latin, Hungarian, Italian and English.

Johann Ladislaus Pyrker (von Oberwart) (von Felsö-Eör) (Hungarian: felsőőri Pyrker János László, born at Nagyláng, Soponya, near Székesfehérvár, Hungary, 2 November 1772; died at Vienna, 2 December 1847) was a Hungarian Cistercian abbot, archbishop and poet.

(The native form of this personal name is Görgey Gábor. This article uses the Western name order.) Gábor Görgey (born as Artúr Görgey on 22 November 1929) is a Hungarian writer, poet, director and politician, who served as Minister of Culture between 2002 and 2003.

János Mattis-Teutsch or Máttis-Teutsch, Mátis-Teutsch (the most common Hungarian-language versions of his name, all of which have also been spelled without the hyphen; his first name has been rendered as Hans or Johannes in German and Ioan in Romanian; 13 August 1884–17 March 1960) was a Hungarian and Romanian painter, sculptor, graphic artist, art critic, and poet.

Gergely Czuczor (17 December 1800 - 9 September 1866) was a Hungarians Benedictine monk, a poet and linguist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Count István II. Koháry (Csábrág, 1649–1731), the poet, politician and general was a member of the Hungarian House of Koháry.

Béla Kondor (Pestszentlőrinc, February 17, Budapest, 1931-December 12, 1972) was a Hungarian painter, prose writer, poet, photographer, and avant-garde graphic artist.

László Kálnoky (Eger, September 5, 1912 – Budapest, July 30, 1985) was a Hungarian poet and literary translator.

László L. Simon (born 28 March 1972) is a Hungarian writer, poet and politician, who served as Secretary of State for Culture of the Ministry of Human Resources from 18 June 2012 to 15 February 2013.

Sándor Lezsák (born 30 October 1949) is a Hungarian poet, teacher and politician and was managing Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary since Speaker, László Kövér, after resigning of Pál Schmitt, became the acting President of Hungary from 2 April 2012 to 10 May 2012.

Géza Képes (February 1, 1909, Mátészalka, Hungary – August 19, 1989, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian poet, translator and polyglot.

'László Jávor (May 3, 1903 - December 21, 1956) was a Hungarian poet who wrote the poem that was the basis for the jazz standard "Gloomy Sunday", composed by Rezső Seress, later also notably recorded by Billie Holiday.

Istvan Rozanich (1912–1984) was a Hungarian poet and, while living in exile in Venezuela during the second half of his life, newspaper editor.