# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lajos-simicska
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:35:24.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lajos-simicska"
name: "Lajos Simicska"
slug: "lajos-simicska"
description: "Lajos Simicska is a former Hungarian business magnate, a former politician of Fidesz, and he was the head of APEH, Hungary's internal revenue service between 1998–1999, during the first government of Viktor Orbán. He was the ninth richest person in Hungary in 2016. He had extensive media interests, which included Magyar Nemzet, the number one daily conservative newspaper, the radio station Lánchíd Rádió, the weekly magazine Heti Válasz and the television network Hír TV. According to the Influence Barometer, in 2014 he was the 3rd most influential person in Hungary. He has a son Ádám Lajos Simicska who is also a businessman."
tagline: "Hungarian businessperson, politician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1960-01-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.485062666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Simicska"
    title: "Lajos Simicska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Simicska"
    title: "Lajos Simicska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Simicska"
    title: "Lajos Simicska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Simicska"
    title: "Lajos Simicska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Simicska"
    title: "Lajos Simicska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simicska_Lajos"
    title: "Simicska Lajos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1288458"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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