# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pal-szalai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:44:26.441Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pal-szalai"
name: "Pál Szalai"
slug: "pal-szalai"
description: "Pál Szalai also spelled Pál Szalay and later anglicized as Paul Sterling was a high-ranking Hungarian police officer and a member of the Arrow Cross Party. In 1945, together with Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, Szalai helped save hundreds of Hungarian Jews in the Budapest ghetto."
tagline: "Hungarian righteous among the Nations (1915-1994)"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1915-09-03"
deathDate: "1994-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.341973333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%90%A8%E6%8B%89%E4%BC%8A%C2%B7%E5%B8%95%E5%B0%94"
    title: "萨拉伊·帕尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "بال سالاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Szalai"
    title: "Pál Szalai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Szalai"
    title: "Pál Szalai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Szalai"
    title: "Pál Szalai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%99"
    title: "פאל סאלאי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szalai_P%C3%A1l_(tiszts%C3%A9gvisel%C5%91)"
    title: "Szalai Pál (tisztségviselő)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q724000"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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