The following list includes notable people who were born, lived or resided in Budapest, Hungary and/or who became its honorary citizens, either during their lifetime or posthumously.

Nobel laureates, recipients of Wolf and Abel Prizes and other celebrated honorary citizens

• Georg von Békésy – Nobel Prize in Medicine (1961),^[1] University of Budapest
• Raoul Bott – Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2000), Harvard University
• Paul Erdős – Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1984), University of Budapest
• Dennis Gabor – Nobel Prize in Physics (1971),^[1] Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• John Harsanyi – Nobel Prize in Economics (1994),^[1] University of Budapest
• Václav Havel- (Hon. citizen) Budapest_díszpolgárainak_listája ^[hu]
• George de Hevesy – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1943),^[1] University of Budapest
• Imre Kertész – Nobel Prize in Literature (2002),^[1] Goethe Prize (2004)
• Peter Lax – Abel Prize (2005), Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1987), Stanford University
• Philipp Lenard – Nobel Prize in Physics (1905),^[1][2] University of Budapest
• László Lovász – Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1999), Fulkerson Prize (1982, 2012), University of Budapest, Yale University
• George Andrew Olah – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1994),^[1] Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• John Charles Polanyi – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986),^[1] Wolf Prize (1982), Princeton University
• Elvis Presley – (Hon. citizen)
• Kati Kovács – (Hon. citizen)
• Ernő Rubik – (Hon. citizen)
• Gabor A. Somorjai – Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1998), Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• Endre Szemerédi – Abel Prize (2012), University of Budapest
• Albert Szent-Györgyi – Nobel Prize in Medicine (1937),^[1] Semmelweis University
• Edward Teller – (Hon. citizen)
• Lech Walesa – (Hon. citizen)
• Raoul Wallenberg – (Hon. citizen)
• Eugene Wigner – Nobel Prize in Physics (1963),^[1] Enrico Fermi Award (1958), Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Budapest-born academics, artists, athletes, authors, musicians, politicians, and scientists

Notable people

• Mordechai Efraim Fischel Sofer-Zussman (1867–1942), Hungarian chief rabbi of Budapest
• János Manninger (1901–1946), photographer and director
• András Vikár (born 1953), architect and educator