Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Debrecen

Balázs Dzsudzsák es un futbolista húngaro. Juega de centrocampista y su equipo actual es el Debreceni V. S. C. de la Nemzeti Bajnokság I y de la selección de fútbol de Hungría, de la que es capitán.

Judah Samet is a businessman, speaker, and Holocaust survivor. At the age of six, he and his family were taken from Debrecen, Hungary, to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they spent eleven months. After the Second World War the family immigrated to Israel, where he subsequently served in the Israel Defense Forces and worked as a teacher. He later moved to Canada and then to the United States. In 2018, he was a witness to and survivor of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. He is a jeweler and speaker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

László Görög is a Hungarian actor as well as voice actor mostly known for his roles in Samba, Argo and Jumurdzsák gyürüje (Yoomurjak's Ring. He was born in Debrecen.

Imre Lakatos, nacido Imre Lipschitz, fue un economista, filósofo y matemático húngaro de origen judío que logró salvarse de la persecución judicial nazi cambiando su apellido. En 1956 huyó a Viena escapándose de las autoridades rusas luego de la fallida revolución húngara abortada por los soviéticos y posteriormente se estableció en Londres, donde colaboró en la London School of Economics.

Tamás Vásáry es un pianista y director de orquesta suizo de origen húngaro.

Elemér Hankiss was a Hungarian sociologist. His first wife was MEP Ágnes Hankiss.

József Vágó was a Hungarian football defender who played for Hungary in the 1934 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Debreceni VSC.

Miklós Kocsár was a Hungarian composer.

Tibor Szele Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics and abstract algebra. After graduating at the Debrecen University, he became a researcher at the Szeged University in 1946, then he went back at the Debrecen University in 1948 where he became full professor in 1952. He worked especially in the theory of Abelian groups and ring theory. He generalized Hajós's theorem. He founded the Hungarian school of algebra. Tibor Szele received the Kossuth Prize in 1952.