Varga (surname)

Varga or Vargha is a Hungarian language occupational surname derived from the Hungarian term "Varga" (ancient term, not used in contemporary Hungarian) which means "leatherworker" or leather repairman; someone who works with leather. As such, varga also used to refer to saddle makers, shoemakers or boot makers.

People with surname Varga

• Ádám Varga (born 1999), Hungarian footballer
• Béla Varga (wrestler) (1888–1969), Hungarian Olympic wrestler
• Béla Varga (politician) (1903–1995), Hungarian Catholic priest and politician
• Dacian Varga (born 1984), Romanian footballer
• Dániel Varga (born 1983), Hungarian water polo player
• Dénes Varga (born 1987), Hungarian water polo player
• Erik Varga (born 1976), Slovak sports shooter
• Ferenc Varga (born 1925), Hungarian sprint canoeist
• Gabor Varga (1961–2006), Swedish aviator
• Gabriel Varga (born 1985), Canadian kickboxer
• István Varga (born 1943), Hungarian handball player
• János Varga (born 1939), Hungarian wrestler
• Eugen Varga (Hungarian: Varga Jenő; 1879–1964), Hungarian Marxist economist
• József Varga (born 1954), Hungarian footballer
• József Varga (born 1988), Hungarian footballer
• Judit Varga (born 1976), Hungarian athlete
• Laszlo Varga (cellist), Hungarian-American cellist (retired 2000)
• László Varga (footballer) (born 1987), Hungarian footballer
• Marián Varga (born 1947), Slovak musician and composer
• Melinda Varga (born 1977), Australian reality TV personality
• Michel Varga, Hungarian Trotskyist activist (active from 1950s)
• Miklós Varga (born 1987), Hungarian boxer
• Miroslav Varga, Czech sport shooter
• Norbert Varga (born 1980), Romanian footballer
• Peter Varga (born 1998), Slovak footballer
• Péter Varga (born 1974), Hungarian kickboxer
• Richard S. Varga (born 1928), American mathematician
• Roland Varga (athlete) (born 1967), Hungarian discus thrower
• Roland Varga (footballer) (born 1989), Hungarian footballer
• Stanislav Varga (born 1972), Slovakian footballer
• Tamás Varga (born 1975), Hungarian water polo player
• Velimir Varga (born 1980), Slovenian-Croat footballer
• Zoltán Varga (disambiguation), numerous people
• Zsolt Varga (born 1972), Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics
• Zsolt Varga (born 1978), Hungarian water polo player
• Zsolt Varga (canoer), Hungarian sprint canoer
• Zvonko Varga (born 1959), Serbian footballer

People with surname Vargha

• Csongor Vargha (born 1946), Hungarian sprint canoeist
• Ilona Vargha (1910–1973), Hungarian fencer
• János Vargha (born 1949), Hungarian biologist and environmentalist

Surnames associated with the occupations of cobbler/shoemaker/cordwainer
Celtic	Quéré Gracie, Grassie, Grassick
Germanic	Schumacher, Schuhmacher, Schumaker, Shoemaker, Schoemaker, Shoemark, Schuster, Shuster (from Schuster), Knef Schoenmaker, Schoenmakers, Schoonmaker
Romance	Germanic language surnames ultimately from Latin "sutor": Suter, Sutter, Souter, Sauter, Sutar, Soutar, Souttar Sutor DeSutter, De Sutter, DeZuter, DeZutter, De Zutter De Soto, DeSoto, de Soto, Desoto Scarpa, Scarponi, Calzolaro, Calligaris, Calegari, Chaucer, Zangari Cordonnier, Courvoisier, Corviser, Corvisier, Le Sueur, Sabatier Crispino Sapateiro, Zapatero Ciubotaru, Ciubotariu (borrowing from Slavic)
Slavic	Chebotar, Chebotaryov (Tschebotarioff), Chebotarenko Čizmar, Čižmár, Cizmar, Čižman Łatacz Sapozhnikov, Sapozhnik, Bashmachnikov Shvets, Shevchenko, Shevchuk, Shevtsov, Shautsov, Švec, Ševčík (Sevcik, Shevchik), Szewczyk, Sheuchyk Šuštar (from Schuster) Kopitar
Other	"Sandlar" (סנדלר; "sandal-maker"): HaSandlar, Sandler, Zandler Suutari Kingsepp Varga Csizmadia