The most famous native of Budapest of Jewish origin – Neokohn
Find out who is the most famous person in your hometown, favorite city or any city in the world with this specially developed map — reports jewish.com.
The wonderful globe was developed by researchers from the University of Paris based on an idea published this summer by a Finnish geologist, Topi Tjukanov.
The developers calculated who is the most famous person in each settlement based on the clicks, i.e. the visits, of Wikipedia and Wikidéta, which are well-known to everyone in the Internet world.
By default, it generally shows the most marked people on the map, but by selecting the simple menu bar on the left, you can also find out who is the most famous person in the settlement in culture, science, politics or sports.
And if someone didn’t recognize himself on the world map of the most famous people, he switched from people to city names, so that he could then get to know the world stars of the smallest places.
The editors of zsido.com discovered with joy and pride that the greatest celebrity of the Hungarian capital is the Jewish mathematician János Neumann, or “internationally” known as John von Neumann. And the most wanted person in the cultural life of the capital is the illusionist Erik Weisz, aka Harry Houdini, who is also of Jewish origin.
In addition to Budapest, the most famous of many cities include people from Jewish families, such as:
In Makón, journalist József Pulitzer, composer Károly Goldmark in Keszthely, Lipsitz, i.e., philosopher of mathematics and science Imre Lakatos, in the scientific life of Debrecen, painter Lajos Vajda in the cultural life of Zalaegerszeg, or László Weisz, or László Moholy-Nagy, a prominent figure of the Bauhaus school, etc. in Bácsborsód.