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| Language(s) | Hungarian |
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| Origin | |
| Meaning | Farkas is Hungarian for Wolf |
| Region of origin | Hungary |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Wolfgang |
Farkas (Template:Lang-hu) is a Hungarian surname or a given name (the last corresponds in the Catholic tradition to the German name Wolfgang).
List of persons with the surname
- Andrea Farkas, Hungarian handball goalkeeper
- Andy Farkas, former American football player, who, along with 9 other players, holds the record for the longest pass caught in NFL history
- Balázs Farkas, Hungarian footballer currently playing for FC Dynamo Kyiv
- Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space
- Ferenc Farkas, Hungarian composer
- George Farkas - Founder of Alexander's Department Store
- Gyula Farkas (natural scientist), Hungarian mathematician and physicist
- Gyula Farkas (linguistic scientist) (1894–1958), literature historian
- Karl Farkas, Austrian actor
- Kisbarnaki Ferenc Farkas, Hungarian World War II General and Chief Scout
- Leonardo Farkas, Chilean businessman
- Mihály Farkas, minister of national defence of Hungary under Rákosi dictatorship
- Philip Farkas, symphony horn player
- Wally Farkas, guitarist with Texan rock band Galactic Cowboys
- Zsófia Farkas, the second wife of Muammar Gaddafi
Fictional characaters
- Farkas is one of the werewolf characters players encounter in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim along with his brother, Vilkas (wolf in Lithuanian)
- Scut Farkus (variation of Farkas), the bully in the 1983 film A Christmas Story
List of persons with the given name
- Farkas Bolyai, or Wolfgang Bolyai
- Farkas Kempelen, or Wolfgang von Kempelen
See also
- Farkasréti Temető (cemetery), Budapest
- Farkas's lemma
- Wolf (name), Wolfe (surname), Wolff, Woolf, Wulf and Volf
- Ulf, Scandinavian male name meaning "wolf"
- Ze'ev and Zev, Hebrew first names meaning "wolf"
- Vuk (name), Serbian name meaning "wolf"
- Kurt Turkish surname meaning "wolf"
References
| Family names derived from the word "wolf" | ||
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| Celtic | Ó Faoláin, Phelan, Whalan, Whalen, Whelan, Felan, Folan, Mac Conallaidh, McNally |  |
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Surname listThis page lists people with the surname Farkas. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link. Categories: