István

István (pronounced [ˈiʃtvaːn]) is a Hungarian language equivalent of the name Stephen or Stefan. It may refer to:

People with the given name

Nobles, palatines and judges royal

• Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975–1038), last grand prince of the Hungarians and first king of Hungary
• Stephen Rozgonyi (died after 1440), ispán (Count) of Temes County
• Stephen III Báthory (died 1444), Palatine of Hungary
• Stephen V Báthory (1430–1493), Hungarian commander, judge royal and Voivode of Transylvania
• Stephen VIII Báthory (1477–1534), Voivode of Transylvania
• Stephen VII Báthory (1480–1530), Count of Temesvár and Palatine of Hungary
• Stephen Báthory (1533–1586), Voivode of Transylvania, Prince of Transylvania, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
• Stephen Báthory (1555–1605), judge royal of the Kingdom of Hungary
• Stephen Bocskai (1557–1606), Prince of Transylvania and Hungary
• Stephen Bethlen (1582–1648), Prince of Transylvania

Politicians

• István Balogh (politician) (1894–1976), Hungarian Catholic priest and anti-communist politician
• István Bethlen (1874–1946), Prime Minister of Hungary
• István Bethlen (born 1946) (1946–2018), Hungarian economist and politician
• István Bibó (1911–1979), Hungarian lawyer, civil servant, politician and political theorist
• István Bittó (1822–1903), Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary
• István Dobi (1898–1968), Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary
• István Farkas de Boldogfa (1875–1921), Hungarian nobleman and jurist
• István Friedrich (1883–1951), Hungarian politician, footballer and factory owner, Prime Minister of Hungary for three months
• István Gorove (1819–1881), Hungarian politician and cabinet minister
• István Hiller (born 1964), Hungarian politician and cabinet minister
• István Horthy (1904–1942), Hungarian World War II anti-Nazi politician and fighter pilot
• István Nagy (politician, born 1954), Hungarian politician
• István Nagy (politician, born 1967), Hungarian agrarian engineer and politician
• István Pálfi (1966–2006), Hungarian politician
• István Pásztor (politician) (born 1956), Serbian politician
• István Széchenyi (1791–1860), Hungarian politician, political theorist and writer
• István Szent-Iványi (born 1958), Hungarian politician and diplomat
• István Tisza (1861–1918), Hungarian politician, Prime Minister, political scientist, international lawyer and macroeconomist
• István Varga (politician, born 1953), Hungarian lawyer and politician
• István Varga (politician, born 1956), Hungarian politician, economist and former Minister of National Development and Economy
• István Werbőczy (1458–1541), Hungarian legal theorist, statesman and theologian, author of the Hungarian Customary Law

Musicians and artists

• István Árkossy (born 1943), Hungarian painter and graphic artist
• István Cserháti (1954–2005), Hungarian hard rock keyboardist
• István Csók (1865–1961), Hungarian painter
• István Ferenczy (1792–1856), Hungarian sculptor
• Istvan Kantor (born 1949), Canadian performance and video artist and industrial music and electropop singer
• István Kertész (conductor) (1929–1973), Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
• István Kiss (sculptor) (1927–1997), Hungarian sculptor
• István Láng (1933–2023), Hungarian composer and academic teacher
• István Nagy (painter) (1873-1937), Hungarian painter
• István Orosz (born 1951), Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director

Authors

• István Fekete (1900–1970), Hungarian writer, author of several youth novels and animal stories
• István Küzmics (1723–1779), the most important Lutheran writer of the Slovenes in Hungary
• István Zsemlics (1840–1891), Slovene author and Catholic priest

Academics

• István Fáry (1922–1984), Hungarian mathematician
• István Gyöngy (born 1951), Hungarian mathematician
• István Hatvani (1718–1786), Hungarian mathematician
• István Hont (1947–2013), Hungarian-born British historian of economics and political thought
• István Mészáros (philosopher) (1930–2017), Hungarian Marxist philosopher
• István Perczel (born 1951), Hungarian historian

Chess players

• István Bilek (1932–2010), Hungarian chess grandmaster
• István Csom (1940–2021), Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter
• István Fazekas (1898–1967), Hungarian–British chess master

Sportspeople

• István Avar (1905–1977), football player and manager who played for both Hungary and Romania
• István Bagyula (born 1969), Hungarian retired pole vaulter
• Istvan Bakx (born 1986), Dutch footballer
• István Balogh (footballer) (1912–1992), Hungarian footballer
• István Bárány (1907–1995), Hungarian swimmer
• István Beé (born 1972), Hungarian sprint canoer
• István Déván (1890–1977), Hungarian sprinter and cross-country skier
• István Donogán (1897–1966), Hungarian discus thrower
• István Énekes (1911–1940), Hungarian boxer
• István Ferenczi (born 1977), Hungarian footballer
• István Géczi (born 1944), Hungarian football goalkeeper
• István Gulyás (1931–2000), Hungarian tennis player
• István Havasi (1930–2003), Hungarian race walker
• István Herczeg (1887–1949), Hungarian gymnast
• István Kiss (decathlete) (1924–2011), Hungarian decathlete; see 1946 European Athletics Championships – Men's decathlon
• István Kiss (footballer) (born 1970), Hungarian footballer
• István Kiss (gymnast) (born 1948), Hungarian Olympic gymnast
• István Kiss (long-distance runner) (born 1940), Hungarian long-distance runner; see 1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres
• István Kiss (water polo) (born 1958), Hungarian former water polo player
• István Kovács (boxer) (born 1970), Hungarian retired world and Olympic champion boxer
• István Kozma (footballer) (born 1964), Hungarian former footballer
• István Kozma (wrestler) (1939–1970), Hungarian wrestler
• István Lang (born 1933), Hungarian cyclist
• István Lévai (born 1957), Hungarian retired boxer
• István Major (1949–2014), Hungarian high jumper
• István Molnár (water polo) (1913–1983), Hungarian water polo player
• István Mudin (1881–1918), Hungarian athlete who competed in the throwing events and the pentathlon
• István Nagy (athlete) (born 1959), Hungarian sprinter
• István Nagy (footballer, born 1939) (1939–1999), Hungarian footballer
• István Nagy (footballer, born 1986), Hungarian footballer
• István Nyers (1924–2005), Hungarian footballer
• István Pelle (1907–1986), Hungarian gymnast
• István Reszeli Soós (1962–2015), Hungarian football manager
• István Rózsavölgyi (1929–2012), Hungarian middle-distance runner
• István Séllyei (1950–2020), Hungarian wrestler
• István Serényi (1911–1996), Hungarian field handball player
• István Somodi (1885–1963), Hungarian high jumper
• István Stefanov (1964–2024), Hungarian footballer
• István Szabó (handballer) (born 1945), Hungarian handball player
• István Szabó (canoeist) (born 1950), Hungarian sprint canoer
• István Szilágyi (born 1950), Hungarian handball player
• István Sztáni (born 1937), Hungarian football manager and former player
• István Takács (born 2000), Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler
• István Tóth (canoeist), Hungarian sprint canoer in the 1980s
• István Tóth (footballer) (1891–1945), Hungarian amateur footballer, manager and coach
• István Tóth (wrestler) (born 1951), Hungarian wrestler
• István Varga (handballer) (1943–2014), Hungarian handball player
• István Varga (judoka) (born 1960), Hungarian judoka
• István Vaskuti (born 1955), Hungarian sprint canoer
• István Verpecz (born 1987), Hungarian footballer
• István Vincze (born 1967), Hungarian football manager and former football player
• István Vituska (born 1988), Hungarian footballer

Other

• István Básthy (1896–1970), Hungarian art director
• István Dobó (c. 1502–1572), Hungarian soldier and baron
• István Kiss (architect) (1857–1902), Hungarian architect
• István Mihály (1892–1945), Hungarian screenwriter
• Stephen Pongracz (1584–1619), Hungarian Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
• István Vágó (born 1949), Hungarian television host and political activist