A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultra high-net-worth individual. The American business magazine Forbes produces a global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year and updates an internet version of this list in real time. The American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed U.S. dollar billionaire in 1916.
Wizz Air Holdings Plc is an ultra low-cost carrier group registered in Jersey. The company includes the subsidiaries Wizz Air Hungary, Wizz Air Malta, Wizz Air Abu Dhabi and Wizz Air UK. The airlines serve many cities across Europe, as well as some destinations in North Africa, the Middle East as well as South and Central Asia. As of 2023, the airline group has its largest bases at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport and London Luton Airport and flies to 194 airports. The holding company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
John Franklyn Mars is an American businessman and heir. He is the chairman of Mars, Inc. As of November 2023, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth at US$46.4 billion, ranking him the 24th-richest person in the world.
Sir Frank P. Lowy is an Australian-Israeli businessman of Jewish Slovak-Hungarian origins and the former long-time chairman of Westfield Corporation, a global shopping centre company with US$29.3 billion of assets under management in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. In June 2018 Westfield Corporation was acquired by French company Unibail-Rodamco.
Thomas Peterffy is a Hungarian-born American billionaire businessman. He is the founder, chairman, and the largest shareholder of Interactive Brokers. Peterffy worked as an architectural draftsman after emigrating to the United States, and later became a computer programmer. In 1977, he purchased a seat on the American Stock Exchange and played a role in developing the first electronic trading platform for securities. Forbes's 2023 list of The World's Billionaires estimated his net worth at US$25.3 billion, making him the 57th richest man in the world.
Sándor Pintér is a Hungarian politician and former top police officer. He served as Minister of the Interior from 1998 to 2002 and since 2010, in Viktor Orbán's cabinets.
Fehérvár Football Club, is a Hungarian professional football club based in Székesfehérvár, which plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top level of the Hungarian league system. Due to sponsorship reasons, the club changed its name from Videoton FC to MOL Vidi FC in 2018, the main sponsor of the club being oil and gas multinational company MOL. In 2019, the club changed its name once again to MOL Fehérvár FC.
The World's Billionaires is an annual ranking of people who are billionaires, i.e., they are considered to have a net worth of US$1 billion or more, by the American business magazine Forbes. The list was first published in March 1987. The total net worth of each individual on the list is estimated and is cited in United States dollars, based on their documented assets and accounting for debt and other factors. Royalty and dictators whose wealth comes from their positions are excluded from these lists. This ranking is an index of the wealthiest documented individuals, excluding any ranking of those with wealth that is not able to be completely ascertained.
György Zoltán Gattyán is a Hungarian businessman, founder of the adult camming website LiveJasmin. He is the owner of the Docler Group, and also a producer, the co-founder of the Prima Primissima Foundation, the impresario of the Junior Prima Prize Hungarian folk art and community culture and founder of the Docler Holding New Generation Gábor Dénes Award. He decided to relocate the bases and main activities of his companies to abroad: Los Angeles and Luxembourg.
Sándor Demján was a Hungarian businessman, entrepreneur, and according to Forbes the second richest person in Hungary with a net worth of 192.0 billion HUF. He was the chairman of TriGránit.
Gergely Böszörményi-Nagy is an entrepreneur and former public servant who founded Brain Bar and the current chairman of the board of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.
TakarékBank was, before merging with MKB Bank to form MBH Bank, a banking and financial services corporation in Hungary and the central institution for more than 60 co-operative banks and their 1,100 branch offices. In 2019 TakarékBank consolidated 11 saving co-operatives to form the fifth largest Hungarian financial institution, owning assets worth HUF 2.3tn.
János Süli is a Hungarian electrical engineer, business executive and politician. He served as CEO of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant from 2009 to 2010, and the mayor of Paks from 2014 to 2017. On 2 May 2017, he was appointed Minister without Portfolio in the Third Orbán Government, responsible for the planning, construction and commissioning of the two new blocks at Paks Nuclear Power Plant. He is also Chairman of the Paksi FC and President of the Tolna County branch of the Hungarian Football Federation (MLSZ).
Éva Hegedüs is an economist, the Chairman-CEO and majority shareholder through E.P.M. Ltd. of Gránit Bank.
Andrea Mager( born 24 May 1966), also known as Andrea Bártfai-Mager, is a Hungarian economist, who served as the minister without portfolio for national wealth in the Fourth Orbán Government, between 18 May 2018 and 24 May 2022. Forbes named her as the most influential woman in Hungary in 2019.
Lőrinc Mészáros is a Hungarian businessman, and former politician, who served as Mayor of the hungarian village Felcsút between 2011 and 2018. With an estimated wealth of 436 billion forint ($1.3 billion) as of 2022, he is, according to Forbes, the third richest person in Hungary. Several media outlets refer to him as "oligarch".
Péter Károly Ungár is a Hungarian entrepreneur, politician and geographer, who is a Member of the National Assembly of Hungary from the LMP party's national list since 8 May 2018. He has been male co-chair of the party since August 2022.
