Ferenc Máté (born 1945 in Hungary) escaped Hungary after the revolution with his mother to Vancouver, British Columbia. He has lived in British Columbia, California, New York, Paris, and Rome, and now resides on a wine estate in Tuscany with his wife, painter and winemaker Candace Máté, and their son, Peter. For much of their first twenty years together, Máté and his wife lived on sailboats, traveling the world, photographing and occasionally publishing books and calendars on sailboats. His first book, From a Bare Hull, 1970, is still considered one of the best books on boat-building ever written. In addition to sailing books, Máté has written a memoir about adjusting to Italian life, an international bestsellerThe Hills of Tuscany, and a book-length essay on the environmental impact of the excesses of modern lifestyles, A Reasonable Life. His first novel, Ghost Sea (W. W. Norton, 2006) is the first of a series of anthropological thrillers involving an outlaw sea captain, Dugger. He is now writing the next volume, Sea of Lost Dreams, set in Tahiti. In 2007, he published A Vineyard in Tuscany, which tells the Máté's story of renovating a 13th century house and starting a now world-renowned winery.

Ferenc Farkas (15 December 1905, in Nagykanizsa – 10 October 2000, in Budapest) was a Hungarian composer.

Farkas began his studies in composition at the Budapest Academy of Music (1922–1927), where his teachers were Leo Weiner and Albert Siklós. He later studied with Ottorino Respighi in Rome (1929–1931). After spending a number of years abroad, Farkas taught and conducted in his home country, and in 1949 he was appointed professor of composition at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. He retired from this post in 1975. His pupils included György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Emil Petrovics, Zsolt Durkó and Attila Bozay.

As a composer, Farkas wrote more than 700 works in a wide variety of genres. His style is melodic, quirky and broadly traditional, although he used dodecaphonic techniques on occasion.