Gabor

Gabor, or Gábor in Hungarian, is a masculine given name and a surname of Hungarian origin. It is the Hungarian form of Gabriel, derived from the Hebrew Gavri'el, and is common in Hungary and among Hungarian communities abroad.

Notable people with the name include Dennis Gabor (1900–1979), a Hungarian-British physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for the invention of holography. As a surname, Gabor is borne by several actresses, including Eva Gabor (1919–1995), Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917–2016), and Magda Gabor (1915–1997).

In science and engineering, the name Gabor is associated with the Gabor filter in image processing, developed from work by Dennis Gabor; the filter uses a Gaussian kernel modulated by a sinusoid, providing localized frequency analysis for texture and edge detection. Related concepts include the Gabor transform, a time-frequency analysis technique, and Gabor patches, visual stimuli used in psychophysics and vision science, named after Dennis Gabor.