# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bela-illes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:17:58.330Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bela-illes"
name: "Béla Illés"
slug: "bela-illes"
description: "Béla Illés, March 22, 1895 – Budapest, January 5, 1974) was a Hungarian left-wing and Communist writer and journalist of Jewish descent, who spent over 20 years of his life in exile in the Soviet Union. In 1945 he returned to Hungary in Soviet uniform as a major in the Red Army."
tagline: "Hungarian left-wing writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%91%D0%A1%D0%AD1._%D0%98%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%88%2C_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1895-03-22"
deathDate: "1974-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.808964
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7339347/"
    handle:    "nm7339347"
sources:
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    title: "伊列什·贝拉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيلا إليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "بيلا ايليس (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%86%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%88"
    title: "Бела Ілеш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Ill%C3%A9s"
    title: "Béla Illés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Ill%C3%A9s_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "Béla Illés (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Ill%C3%A9s_(writer)"
    title: "Béla Illés (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Ill%C3%A9s"
    title: "Béla Illés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Ill%C3%A9s"
    title: "Béla Illés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Ill%C3%A9s_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Béla Illés (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%94_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%A9"
    title: "בלה אילש"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ill%C3%A9s_B%C3%A9la_(%C3%ADr%C3%B3)"
    title: "Illés Béla (író)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Ill%C3%A9s_(scrittore)"
    title: "Béla Illés (scrittore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%98%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%88"
    title: "Бела Илеш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Ill%C3%A9s"
    title: "Béla Illés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Ill%C3%A9s_(scriitor)"
    title: "Béla Illés (scriitor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Иллеш, Бела (писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Béla Illés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%98%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%88"
    title: "Бела Илеш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q374605"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4032020"
    title: "Béla Illés"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump