People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Miklós Horthy Horthy Miklós Regent who led the counter-revolutionary National Army and ruled Hungary until 1944
- István Bethlen Bethlen István Transylvanian aristocrat who, as prime minister in 1921–1931, consolidated the Horthy regime with a restricted franchise and a League loan
- Pál Teleki Teleki Pál Geographer of the “Red map” who was twice prime minister and killed himself in 1941 as German troops crossed Hungary
- István Haller Haller István Christian Socialist politician who, as minister of religion and education, prepared and tabled the numerus clausus bill of 1920
- Döme Sztójay Sztójay Döme Soldier-diplomat who pushed for the German alliance in Berlin and, as prime minister under occupation, sped up the Jewish deportations
- Károly Bartha Bartha Károly Defence minister who pressed for joining the invasion of Yugoslavia and the war on the Soviet Union, and harshened labour service
- Gyula Gömbös Gömbös Gyula Right-radical officer who organised the Szeged National Army and as prime minister in 1932–1936 steered Hungary towards Italy and Germany
- Kálmán Darányi Darányi Kálmán Gömbös’s successor as prime minister in 1936–1938, who announced the Győr programme and introduced the First Jewish Law
- László Bárdossy Bárdossy László Wartime prime minister who declared war on the Soviet Union over the Kassa bombing and approved the deportation of Jews
- Béla Imrédy Imrédy Béla Prime minister who swung Hungary towards Germany and drafted the Second Jewish Law, then fell over his own Jewish ancestry
- László Endre Endre László Interior Ministry state secretary who in 1944 ran the ghettoisation and deportation of Hungary’s Jews with László Baky
- László Baky Baky László Gendarmerie officer turned National Socialist who as state secretary for the interior in 1944 ran the deportation of Jews with László Endre