What is "zoltan"

Zoltán is a Hungarian masculine given name. It originates from the Old Turkish word soltan, sultan, meaning strong authority or rulership, which was borrowed from the Arabic sultan, and derived from an Arabic verb Sultah meaning authority or power. In modern times Zoltan and Sultan are used to mean king. The name days for this name are 8 March and 23 June in Hungary, and 7 April in Slovakia.

• Zoltán of Hungary
• Zoltan Bathory, guitarist of heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch
• Zoltán Lajos Bay
• Zoltán Czibor
• Zoltán Czukor
• Zoltán Gera (actor)
• Zoltán Gera (footballer) – Fulham F.C.
• Zoltán Halmay
• Zoltán Kammerer
• Zoltán Kocsis, pianist, conductor, and composer
• Zoltán Kodály
• Zoltán Korda
• Zoltán Magyar – 2-time Olympic gold medalist in pommel horse gymnast. The Magyar spindle and the Magyar travel was named after him.
• Zoltán Meskó (Nazi politician)
• Zoltan Mesko (American football)
• Zoltán Mujahid
• Zoltan Pali, American architect based in Los Angeles, California.
• Zoltan Paulinyi – Hungary-born Brazilian composer
• Zoltán Ozoray Schenker – Hungarian Olympic champion saber fencer
• Zoltán Sebescen – Hungarian-German footballer and coach
• Dr. Zoltan Somogyi – creator of the Mercury programming language
• Dr. Zoltan Takacs – herpetologist and toxinologist, National Geographic Explorer
• Zoltan Teglas – front man of the California-based band Ignite
• Zoltán Tildy – president of Hungary after World War II.
• Zoltán Tóth-Czifra - Hungarian software engineer
• Zoltan Istvan - American writer and futurist
• Zoltán Varga (disambiguation)
• Zoltán Vörös
• Zoltan Mackay, a psychedelic musician from Glasgow, active since the 1980s.
• Zoltan Nagyvari - American computer scientist; Data-mined United States tax code for exempt and excluded income
• Zoltan is a village in Ghidfalău Commune, Covasna County, Romania
• Zoltán is the Hungarian name for Mihai Viteazu village, Saschiz Commune, Mureş County, Romania, formerly called Zoltan in Romanian

Zoltan is a hand gesture in which a person has their hands stacked on top of each other, only touching at the tips of the thumbs, in order to form a letter " Z". Originally used in the 2000 stoner film Dude, Where's My Car?, the Zoltan hand gesture would become popular in 2012 with members of the Pittsburgh Pirates, as well as residents of Pittsburgh rallying around the team.