Balázs

Balázs (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbɒlaːʒ]) is a male surname or given name and is the Hungarian equivalent of Blaise.

From the Latin nomen Blasius, itself from the adjective blaesus, meaning "lisping", "stammering". The Greek Βλάσιος comes from the adjective βλαισός, meaning "bent", "distorted" or "crooked". The correlation between both etimologies is uncertain.

Surname:

• Andre Balazs (born 1957), American hotelier and residential developer
• Árpád Balázs (born 1937), Hungarian classical music composer
• Béla Balázs (1884–1949), Hungarian-Jewish film critic and poet
• Endre Alexander Balazs (1920–2015), Hungarian-American in the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame
• Étienne Balázs (1905–1963), Hungary-French sinologist
• Harold Balazs (1928–2017), American sculptor
• Janika Balázs (1925–1988), Serbian musician
• Márton Balázs, (1929–2016), Romanian mathematician of Hungarian descent
• Mihály Balázs (born 1948), Hungarian historian
• Nándor Balázs (1926–2003), Hungarian-American physicist
• Péter Balázs (born 1941), Hungarian politician
• Péter Balázs (canoeist) (born 1982), Hungarian canoeist
• Peter Balazs (mathematician), (born 1970), Austrian mathematician

Given name:

• Balázs Orbán (1829–1890), Hungarian writer and politician
• Balázs Kiss (born 1972), Hungarian Olympic athlete
• Balázs Ladányi (born 1976), Hungarian ice hockey player
• Balázs Taróczy (born 1954), Hungarian tennis player
• Balázs Borbély (born 1979), Hungarian footballer
• Balázs Dzsudzsák (born 1986), Hungarian footballer
• Balázs Farkas-Jenser (born 1990), Hungarian singer and guitarist