Pál Teleki
Count Pál János Ede Teleki de Szék (1 November 1879 – 3 April 1941) was prime minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from 19 July 1920 to 14 April 1921 and from 16 February 1939 to 3 April 1941. He was also a famous expert in geography, a university professor, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Chief Scout of the Hungarian Scout Association. He descended from a noble family from Alsótelek in Transylvania.
János Kendi
He was of serf origin (thus he was not related to the Kendi de Szarvaskend noble family). According to his last will and testament, Kendi liberated his parents himself from serfdom, when he was already notary. Based on his noble prefix, it is possible that he was born in the early 1600s in Nagykend (today "Chendu", part of Bălăușeri commune in Romania). In 1623, he was a scribe at the Princely Court of Justice during the reign of Gabriel Bethlen. He was a scribe at the Lesser Chancellery between 1632 and 1638. He compiled the "urbarium" of Székelyudvarhely (present-day Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania) and its surrounding areas in 1644. In the last years of Prince George II Rákóczi, Kendi served as notary of Marosszék, mentioned in this capacity in 1656. He became a judge of the Princely Court of Justice in the next year, becoming one of the few known lowborn members, who have reached that office. In the same time, he was appointed princely "praefectus" too and managed the financial affairs of the Alvinc lordship (today Vințu de Jos, Romania) in 1659. He was responsible for the collection of extraordinary (including Turkish) taxes in 1660, assisting the work of András Ugron, chief treasurer of the principality. During the trouble years of 1658–61, he constantly interchanged his loyalty between claimants George Rákóczi, John Kemény and Michael Apafi, similarly to the majority of the Transylvanian lords. For instance, he fled to the attackers' camp "in an unworthy way to his noble status", when John Kemény laid siege to Segesvár (Sighișoara, Romania), as Saxon historian Georg Krauss recorded. Contemporary works (including a mocking poem by scribe Lukács) connected his rapid ascension from the lowest social status with his alleged "miser and two-faced" personality.