Nagy
Nagy is the most popular Hungarian surname, meaning "great". It is pronounced [ˈnɒɟ], roughly like nawdge in American English, and rhyming with "lodge" in British English. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrea Nagy (born 1971), Hungarian basketball player
- Andrej Prean Nagy (born 1923), Hungarian footballer
- Anikó Nagy (born 1970), Hungarian handball player
- Antal Nagy (disambiguation)
- Balazs Nagy, birth name of Michel Varga
- Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy (1913–1998), Hungarian mathematician
- Bill Nagy (born 1987), former American football center and guard
- Charles Nagy (born 1967), American Major League Baseball pitcher for Cleveland Indians
- Christine Nagy, actress and American radio personality
- Dániel Nagy (disambiguation)
- Dávid Nagy (born 1981), Hungarian guitarist
- Dennis M. Nagy, former director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
- Ferenc Nagy (1903–1979), Hungarian politician
- Ferenc Nagy (boxer) (1916–1977), Hungarian boxer
- Feró Nagy (born 1946), Hungarian rock singer
- Fritz Nagy (1924–1989), American basketball player
- Gábor Nagy (footballer born 1981), Hungarian football player
- Gábor Nagy (footballer born 1985), Hungarian football player
- Gáspár Nagy (1949–2007), Hungarian poet and writer
- George Nagy (born 1957), Canadian swimmer
- Géza Nagy (1892–1953), Hungarian chess master
- Gregory Nagy, classicist
- Gyula Nagy (born 1924), Hungarian football player
- Ilona Nagy (born 1951), Hungarian handball player
- Imre Nagy (pentathlete) (born 1933), Hungarian pentathlete
- Imre Nagy (1896–1958), politician, twice Prime Minister of Hungary
- István Nagy (disambiguation)
- Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy (1920–2007), therapist and writer on family relations
- János Nagy, Hungarian diplomat
- Jenene Nagy, American installation artist
- John A. Nagy, American author of espionage during the American Revolution
- József Nagy (disambiguation)
- Judit Földing-Nagy, Hungarian marathon runner
- Károly Nagy, Hungarian astronomer, mathematician, chemist and politician
- Kira Nagy (born 1977), Hungarian tennis player
- Ladislav Nagy (born 1979), Slovak ice hockey player
- Lajos Nagy (1326–1382), a.k.a. Louis I of Hungary
- Lajos Nagy (footballer) (born 1975), Hungarian football player
- László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), architect and photographer, instructor at the Bauhaus
- László Nagy (born 1921), Chief Executive of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1968–1985
- László Nagy (disambiguation)
- Marcell Deák-Nagy (born 1992), Hungarian sprinter
- Marianna Nagy (figure skater) (born 1929), Hungarian pair skater
- Marianna Nagy (handballer) (born 1957), Hungarian Olympic handball player
- Matt Nagy (born 1978), American football player
- Mike Nagy (born 1948), baseball pitcher
- Mohamed Nagy (artist) (1888-1956), Egyptian artist
- Nicholas Nagy-Talavera (1929–2000), Hungarian-American dissident and professor
- Olivér Nagy (born 1989), Hungarian footballer
- Orsolya Nagy, Hungarian fencer
- Péter Nagy (disambiguation)
- Phyllis Nagy (born 1962), American theater and film director
- Róbert Nagy (speedway rider) (born 1967), Hungarian motorcyclist
- Róbert Nagy (footballer) (born 1987), Hungarian football player
- Robert Nagy (tenor) (1929–2008), American operatic tenor
- Sándor Nagy (footballer) (born 1988), Hungarian football player
- Scott Nagy (born 1966), American college basketball coach
- Shawn Nagy, Canadian musician, Music Historian
- Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, art historian
- Stanislaw Nagy (born 1921), Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- Stefan Nagy (born 1961), Swedish darts player
- Steve Nagy (born 1919), American baseball pitcher
- Tibor Nagy (sprint canoer), Hungarian sprint canoer
- Tibor Nagy (footballer born 1991), Hungarian association football player
- Tibor P. Nagy, Hungarian-American diplomat
- Tímea Nagy (born 1970), épée fencer
- Timea Nagy (born 1978), Hungarian Canadian former sex slave
- Timo Nagy (born 1983), German footballer
- Vilmos Nagy, Hungarian sprint canoer
- Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon (1884–1976), Hungarian general
- Vince Nagy (1886–1965), Hungarian politician
- Zoltán Nagy (disambiguation)
- Zsolt Nagy (born 1971), Romanian politician
- Zsolt Nagy (footballer) (born 1979), Hungarian football player
- Zsuzsanna Nagy (born 1986), Hungarian ice dancer
It is also common among ethnic Hungarians in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, where it is spelled Nađ (Serbian Cyrillic: Нађ):
- Albert Nađ (born 1974), footballer
- Antonija Nađ (born 1986), sprint canoer
- Kosta Nađ (1911–1986), Yugoslav Army general
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