András Kulja
Hungarian politician (born 1989)
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András Tivadar Kulja (born 17 September 1989) is a Hungarian doctor, internet personality, and politician of the Tisza Party who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.[1] He posts health education content to several platforms, the most popular of which is his TikTok account.[2]
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17 September 1989
affiliations
András Kulja | |
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Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
| Constituency | Hungary |
| Personal details | |
| Born | András Tivadar Kulja 17 September 1989 |
| Party | Tisza |
Other political affiliations | European People's Party |
| Alma mater | Semmelweis University |
| TikTok information | |
| Page | |
| Followers | 377 thousand |
| Last updated: 15 December 2025 | |
Early life
András Kulja was born in Nyíregyháza on 17 September 1989.[3] His mother is a psychiatrist[4] and his father is a microbiologist.[5] His parents are from Transcarpathia.[2]
He studied medicine at Semmelweis University in Budapest. After graduating in 2016, he worked as a resident physician in psychiatry for one and a half years. While pursuing medical school and residency, he carried out research into depression.[4][6] Later, he left the field and started his training in surgery, citing a wish for a more dynamic workflow and performing manual tasks.[6] His decision was also shaped by his prior experience of assisting in veterinary surgeries with a veterinarian family member.[4] He began teaching at Semmelweis University in 2022.[4]
Aiming to share healthcare information with a wider audience, he posted his first YouTube video in 2019, and launched his TikTok account in 2021.[4] As of June 2024, he had 368,000 followers on TikTok.[2]
Political career
On 6 April 2024, Kulja attended a demonstration in Kossuth Square organized by Péter Magyar, and became committed to the Tisza Party.[7] Although he was scheduled to take his specialty exam in surgery in May, he postponed it and left his job as a surgical trainee in April, citing a desire to "speak openly and without retribution" about the situation in Hungarian healthcare, as well as an intention to focus on his political engagement.[2]
He was placed fourth on Tisza's party list for the European Parliament election.[8] On 9 June, the party won a total of seven seats, and Kulja was confirmed as a member of the European Parliament.[9] In July, he was elected a vice-chair of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.[10] Soon after his election as an MEP, he mentioned participation in health policy programs and improvement of health literacy among his aims.[11]
In June 2025, Kulja was a joint winner of the Best Newcomer Award at the MEP Awards.[12][13]