Victor Ambrus, born László Győző Ambrus in Budapest, Hungary, in 1935, is an illustrator best known for his regular appearances on the Channel 4 archaeology television series Time Team, where he visualises how the sites being excavated may have once looked. He is an Associate of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers .

Ambrus studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts for three years, but fled Hungary to England in 1956 following the failure of the Hungarian Uprising against the Soviet-backed government. He resumed his education at the Royal College of Art in London. After graduating in 1960 he became a freelance illustrator, and has contributed to almost 300 books.

Ambrus has twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal, once in 1965 for The Three Poor Tailors, and again in 1975 for Mishka and Horses in Battle. He has also won the World Wildlife Award .

External links

• Biography at Channel 4
• Victor Ambrus Papers
• "Kathy", a pastel drawing by Victor Ambrus
• Drawings by Victor Ambrus at Orange Street Gallery