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Árpád Lengyel

Hungarian physician

1886 – 1940aged 54

A Hungarian physician serving as ship's medical officer on the RMS Carpathia when it received the distress call from the sinking Titanic in 1912; he led the effort treating survivors as they came aboard in the hours after the disaster.

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