The following are people who were either born/raised or have lived for a significant period of time in Bács-Kiskun.
The arts
Art
- Ede Telcs – sculptor
Film
Literature
- József Katona – author
- Ferenc Móra – novelist
- Sándor Petőfi – Hungarian national poet
- Kálmán Tóth – poet
Music
- Zoltán Kodály – composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist and philosopher
- Emma Sándor – composer, wife of Zoltán Kodály
Theater
- László Kelemen – president of the first Hungarian Theater
Aviation and space exploration
Military
- András Gáspár – Hungarian general
- Lázár Mészáros – Hungary's first Minister of War
- István Türr – Giuseppe Garibaldi's general
Public office
- László Berkecz – mayor of Soltvadkert
- Sándor Font – member of the National Assembly
Science and medicine
- József Bayer – member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Jenő Ernst – doctor, biologist, member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Dénes Jánossy – mailing member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Dezső Miskolczy – explorer of the mental disease, member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences