Hungarian Uruguayans are a local
ethnic minority; their presence is small but meaningful, numbering around 2,000-3,000 of which ca. 150 were born in Hungary. In 1925 was established a Society of Hungarian-Language Workers in Uruguay They even had some influence within the
Communist Party of Uruguay. There is also a small
Jewish-Hungarian community, they established their own association in the 1920s, which in turn sent their representative to the
Uruguayan Central Israeli Committee.
Ana Balog was a Uruguayan girl of Hungarian Jewish descent who became a victim of
the Holocaust. There is an immigrant branch of the
Batthyány noble family. ==Notable Hungarians in Uruguay==