Farkas
Farkas is a Hungarian surname, derived from a nickname, meaning " wolf ". As a male first name corresponds to the name Wolfgang Farkas.
Variants
- Farkaš
Bearers of the name
First name
- Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai (1775-1856), Hungarian mathematician
- Kempelen Farkas (Wolfgang von Kempelen; 1734-1804 ), Austro- Hungarian polymath
- Farkas Molnár (1897-1945), Hungarian architect
- Farkas Paneth (1917-2009), Hungarian - Romanian table tennis player and coach
Family name
- Akos Farkas (1898-1971), Hungarian cameraman
- Alexander Farkas, American music teacher and pianist
- Balázs Farkas ( football player, 1978) (born 1978 ), Hungarian football player
- Balázs Farkas ( football player, 1979) ( born 1979 ), Hungarian football player
- Balázs Farkas ( football player, 1988) ( * 1988), the Hungarian football player
- Bertalan Farkas ( born 1949 ), Hungarian cosmonaut
- Edith Farkas (1877-1942), Hungarian women's rights activist
- Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000), Hungarian composer
- Gizella Farkas (1925-1996), Hungarian table tennis player
- Gyula Farkas ( Julius Farkas; 1847-1930 ), Hungarian physicist and mathematician
- Hershel Farkas ( born 1939 ), Israeli- American mathematician
- István Farkas (painter) ( 1887-1944 ), Hungarian painter and publisher
- Josef Farkas, Austrian politician (NSDAP )
- József Farkas ( born 1952 ), Hungarian wrestler
- Julius Farkas, Gyula Farkas (1894-1958), Hungarian - German linguist and literary scholar
- Karl Farkas (1893-1971), Austrian actor and cabaret artist
- Martin Farkas (* 1964), German cameraman
- Mary Farkas (1911-1992), American Zen Buddhist
- Meira Farkas ( born 1945 ), Romanian pianist
- Mihály Farkas (1904-1965), Hungarian politician
- Nicolas Farkas (1890-1982), Hungarian cinematographer, screenwriter and director
- Patrick Farkas (* 1992), Austrian football player
- Pavol Farkaš (* 1985), the Slovak football player
- Péter Farkas ( writer ) ( born 1955 ), Hungarian author and journalist
- Peter Farkas (actor) (born 1966 ), British actor
- Péter Farkas ( wrestler) ( born 1968 ), Hungarian wrestler
- Philip Farkas (1914-1992), American horn player
- Tomislav Farkaš (born 1971 ), Croatian handball player
- Viktor Farkas (1945-2011), Austrian author and journalist
Others
- Lemma of Farkas, mathematical lemma of Gyula Farkas
- Farkas (band), folk band from Pirna in Saxony