text: Many of these answers are way off-base.  They Magyar people, who are the primary basis of modern Hungarians, are believed to have come from river basins of the Ural Mountains.  The Magyars have no links with the "Middle East" and in no way look Middle Eastern.  Part of Hungary was controlled for some time by the Ottomans, but there is little to no "Turkish" appearance in the Hungarians.  They don't look Slavic either, you don't see many round faces for example.  They look more Germanic, which makes sense historically and geographically.  Lots of blondes and brown-haired people.  More brown eyes than blue eyes, but lots of blue eyes still.  Not as tall as Scandinavians, but taller than most Slavic people or French or Italians.  You do not see "pulled back" eyes representative of Asian peoples there any more than you would in Germany or Austria - people like to read obscure history into everything!  Some people have a little Rom (Gypsy) blood in them which makes them darker than others.  But if you want to know what Hungarians look like, look at Zsa Zsa Gabor or Mariska Hargitay (from Law And Order) who are Hungarian and half-Hungarian respectively - they resemble a lot of women I see in Hungary.  The men are generally good-looking in a way that's not Slavic or too Germanic either.  Older men favor mustaches.