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Zoltán Haiman
Zoltán Haiman is a Hungarian-born theoretical astrophysicist who studies the first stars, supermassive black hole formation, and black hole mergers, and has been a professor at ISTA since 2025.
Zoltan Hajos
Zoltan György Hajós, born in Budapest in 1926, is a Hungarian-born American organic chemist who co-discovered the proline-catalyzed Hajos–Parrish reaction at Hoffmann-La Roche in 1971, a forerunner of modern organocatalysis.
Zoltan Halmay
Zoltan Halmay (Zoltán Halmay, 1881–1956), Hungarian swimmer, first great swimmer of Continental Europe; nine Olympic medals 1900–1908 including 1904 sprint double golds and first official 100 m freestyle world record (1:05.8, 1905).
Zoltan Horvath
Zoltan Horvath (Hungarian: Horváth Zoltán, 1937–2025) was a Hungarian sabre fencer who won 1960 Olympic team gold and individual silver, and the 1962 world title.
Zoltan J. Acs
Zoltan J. Acs (born 1947) is a Hungarian-American economist known for research on small firms in innovation, the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, and the GEDI index.
Zoltan J. Cendes
Zoltan J. Cendes is an American-trained electrical engineer and Carnegie Mellon professor who founded Ansoft in 1984, created the HFSS electromagnetic simulator, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály (Kodály Zoltán, 1882–1967) was a Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist who, alongside Béla Bartók, collected folk songs and created the Kodály method of music education.
Zoltán Kósz
Zoltán Kósz (born 1967, Budapest) is a Hungarian water polo goalkeeper, captain of the Sydney 2000 Olympic gold-medal team; three-time Olympian (1988, 1996, 2000), two-time European champion, later a goalkeeper coach.
Zoltan Magyar
Zoltán Magyar (Zoltan Magyar), Hungarian gymnast born 1953 in Budapest, two-time Olympic pommel horse champion (1976, 1980), three-time world champion, and namesake of the Magyar Travel and Magyar Spindle elements.
Zoltan Nemere
Zoltán Nemere (Nemere Zoltán), Hungarian épée fencer, 1942–2001. Two Olympic team golds (1964, 1968), 1965 individual world champion; later a dentist in Essen, died in a car accident near Csongrád.
Zoltán Nusser
Zoltán Nusser, born 1968 in Bonyhád, is a Hungarian neuroscientist who studies how synapses work, and is deputy director of the HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine in Budapest.
Zoltán Pál Dienes
Zoltán Pál Dienes (1916–2014) was a Hungarian-born mathematician and mathematics educator, known for the multibase arithmetic blocks and for teaching mathematics through play, games, and concrete materials.
Zoltan Pierre Arany
Zoltan Pierre Arany is a cardiologist and physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how metabolism drives disease in the heart, skeletal muscle, and blood vessels, and became Chair of Physiology in 2025.
Zoltan Sandor Spakovszky
Zoltán S. Spakovszky is an aeronautical engineer at MIT who directs the Gas Turbine Laboratory, studies gas-turbine stability and acoustics, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Zoltan Schenker
Zoltan Schenker (Ozoray), Hungarian fencer, 1880–1966, sabre and foil. Olympic gold 1912 sabre team, silver 1924 sabre team, bronze 1924 foil team; fourth in individual sabre 1912 and 1924.
Zoltán Szabó (mathematician)
Zoltán Szabó, born in Budapest in 1965, is a Hungarian mathematician at Princeton University who works in low-dimensional topology and, with Peter Ozsváth, created Heegaard Floer homology.
Zoltan Szarka
Zoltán Szarka (Szarka Zoltán), Hungarian goalkeeper, 1968 Olympic football gold medalist with Hungary; Szombathelyi Haladás club stalwart, later goalkeeper coach of Gábor Király.
Zoltan Szecsi
Zoltán Szécsi (Szécsi Zoltán), born 1977 Budapest, Hungarian water polo goalkeeper, three-time Olympic champion 2000–2008, 2003 world champion; later Egri Vízilabda Klub president who declined a 2026 Fidesz parliamentary seat.
Zoltán Tanács
Zoltán Tanács (Tanács Zoltán) is a Hungarian politician of the Tisza party who has served as Minister of Science and Technology since April 2026, after 25 years as a management and IT consultant.
Zoltán Tarr
Zoltán Tarr is a Hungarian politician and Reformed pastor who serves as Minister of Social Relations and Culture, having previously served as a Member of the European Parliament.
Zoltan Varga
Zoltan Varga is a hedge-fund investor who joined Och-Ziff Capital Management from Goldman Sachs in 1998, opened its Hong Kong office in 2001, and later helped sell the firm, renamed Sculptor Capital, in 2023.
Zoltan Verraszto
Zoltán Verrasztó (Zoltan Verraszto), Hungarian swimmer born 1956 in Budapest; 1980 Olympic silver 200m backstroke and bronze 400m medley; 1975 world champion; father of Evelyn and Dávid Verrasztó.
Zoltek
Zoltek is an American large-tow carbon fiber manufacturer in Bridgeton, Missouri, founded in 1975 by Zsolt Rumy and acquired by Japan's Toray Industries in 2014.
Zolve
Zolve is a cross-border neobank founded in 2021 by Raghunandan G that offers US bank accounts and credit cards to newcomers using home-country credit history.
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (ゾン100〜ゾンビになるまでにしたい100のこと〜)
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (ゾン100) is a 2018 Shogakukan zombie comedy manga by Haro Aso and Kotaro Takata about office worker Akira's 100-item bucket list, adapted into a 2023 anime and Netflix live-action film.
Zomato
Zomato, now Eternal Limited, is India's leading food delivery platform founded in 2008 as Foodiebay by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah; IPO 2021, Blinkit acquired 2022, renamed Eternal 2025.
Zomba District
Zomba District is a first-order administrative district in Malawi's Southern Region, 2,580 km², containing Zomba City, the former capital. Population 746,724 (2018 census); economy dominated by maize and tobacco farming and Lake Chilwa fisheries.
Zombeavers
Zombeavers is a 2014 American comedy-horror film directed by Jordan Rubin in which college students at a riverside cabin are attacked by zombie beavers created from spilled toxic waste.
Zombeid
Zombeid (زومبائیڈ), 2026 Pakistani Urdu zombie thriller directed by Nabeel Qureshi, produced by Fizza Ali Meerza, starring Fahad Mustafa and Mehwish Hayat; billed as Pakistan's first zombie film, released Eid-ul-Azha, 27 May 2026, set in a Karachi gym.
Zombi 2
Zombi 2, also called Zombie Flesh Eaters or Zombie, is Lucio Fulci's 1979 Italian horror film about a zombie epidemic on a Caribbean island, famous for its shark fight and unofficial Dawn of the Dead sequel marketing.