Zoltán

Zoltán (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈzoltaːn]) is a Hungarian masculine given name. The name days for this name are 8 March and 23 June in Hungary, and 7 April in Slovakia. "Zoli" is the short version of Zoltán. "Zoli" is commonly used.

Zoltána is the feminine version.

The name is derived from the Turkish word "sultan" which comes from Arabic "سلطان".

Notable people

Zoltán of Hungary
Zoltan Bathory, guitarist of heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch
Zoltán Lajos Bay
Zoltán Berczik, six times European Champion in table-tennis.
Zoltán Czibor
Zoltán Czukor
Zoltán Dani
Zoltán Gera (actor)
Zoltán Gera (footballer) – Fulham F.C.
Zoltán Halmay
Zoltán Horváth (disambiguation) – several people
Zoltan Istvan, American writer and futurist
Zoltan Kaszas, American comedian
Zoltán Kammerer
Zoltán Kocsis, pianist, conductor, and composer
Zoltán Kodály, composer, creator of the Kodály-method.
Zoltán Korda
Zoltán Kovács (ice hockey), ice hockey coach and administrator, recipient of the Paul Loicq Award
Zoltán Lajos Bay, physicist.
Zoltán Latinovits, Hungarian actor, director.
Zoltán Magyar – 2-time Olympic gold medalist in pommel horse gymnast. The Magyar spindle and the Magyar travel was named after him.
Zoltán Meskó, Nazi politician.
Zoltan Mesko (American football)
Zoltán Mujahid
Zoltan Pali, American architect based in Los Angeles, California
Zoltán Ozoray Schenker, Hungarian Olympic champion saber fencer
Zoltán Sebescen, Hungarian-German footballer and coach
Zoltan Somogyi, creator of the Mercury programming language
Zoltán Szabó (disambiguation), several people
Zoltán Takács (musician) (born 1980), Hungarian musician and record producer
Zoltán Takács (footballer) (born 1983), Hungarian footballer
Zoltán Takács (toxinologist), Hungarian-born toxinologist and tropical adventurer
Zoltan Teglas, front man of the California-based band Ignite
Zoltán Tildy, president of Hungary after World War II
Zoltán Varga (disambiguation)
Zoltán Zana aka Ganxsta Zolee, Hungarian musician.
Zoltan is a village in Ghidfalău Commune, Covasna County, Romania
Zoltán is the Hungarian name for Mihai Viteazu village, Saschiz Commune, Mureș County, Romania, formerly called Zoltan in Romanian.

Films

Zoltan, Hound of Dracula, alternative title for Dracula's Dog, a 1978 American horror film starring Michael Pataki and José Ferrer

Fictional characters

Zoltan (Dude, Where's My Car?)
Zoltan, a tomato character in the animated television series Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Zoltan, an alien race in the video game FTL: Faster Than Light
Zoltan, the name of a pet raven in Stephen King's novel The Gunslinger
Zoltan, a talking stuffed wolf character in the television series Young Dracula
Zoltan Akkanen, the main antagonist in the 2018 anime film Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative
Zoltan Amadeus, a supervillain from the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode "Attack of the Arachnoid"
Zoltan Grundy, a recurring character in the Disney Channel sitcom A.N.T. Farm
Zoltan Karpathy, a main character in the My Fair Lady musical
Zoltan Chivay, a recurring character from The Witcher novels and The Witcher (video game) series
Zoltan Mahany, a recurring character in the Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout

Other uses

Zoltan (hand gesture), a hand sign originally used by characters in Dude, Where's My Car?, later used as a celebration by the Pittsburgh Pirates in Major League Baseball as well as by other athletes
Zoltan, a Fortuneteller-machine.