title: Szentes
text: # Szentes
  
  Szentes is a town in south-eastern Hungary, Csongrád county, near the Tisza river. The town is a cultural and educational center of the region.
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Árpád Balázs (born 1937), classical music composer
  * János Bácskai 1954. november 27, actor
  * János Berkes (born 1946 May 24) opera singer (tenor)
  * István Bugyi (1898-1981) surgeon - The local hospital named after him
  * Dóra Dúró (born 1987), politician
  * Jozsef Gera (born 1937) aircraft engineer, former chief of the Dynamics and Controls Branch at NASA
  * László Gyimesi (born 1948), pianist
  * Mihály Horváth (1809–1878), Roman Catholic bishop
  * Tamás Kecskés (born 1986), footballer
  * Zsolt Koncz (born 1977), footballer
  * László Márkus (1881-1948), drama author, director, member of the Hungarian Opera
  * András Mészáros (born 1941), former cyclist
  * Ibolya Nagy (1864–1946), actress
  * Lajos Őze (1935–1984), actor
  * László Papp (1905–1989), wrestler
  * István Szelei (born 1960), fencer
  * Lajos Szilassi (born 1942), mathematician
  * Konrád Verebélyi (born 1995), footballer
  * Zséda (born 1974), singer
  * László Terney (1947-1998) architect
  * László Ujréti (born 1942) actor, voice actor
  * Péter Szalay (born 1962), quantum chemist, theoretical chemist
  
  ## Twin towns – sister cities
  
  Szentes is twinned with:
  
  * Bačka Topola, Serbia
  * Buñol, Spain
  * Dumbrăvița, Romania
  * Hof Ashkelon, Israel
  * Kaarina, Finland
  * Markgröningen, Germany
  * Sankt Augustin, Germany
  * Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania
  * Skierniewice, Poland
  * Svätuše, Slovakia
  