István Nagy

István Nagy (born 6 October 1967) is a Hungarian agricultural engineer and politician who has served as the Minister of Agriculture in Hungary between 2018 and 2026.

Profession Nagy was born in Újfehértó, where he spent his childhood and attended elementary school. He finished his secondary studies at the János Balásházy Agricultural Secondary School in Debrecen in 1986. He attended the Pannon University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in Mosonmagyaróvár, where earned a degree of agrarian engineer in 1992. He graduated from the Faculty of Natural and Social Sciences of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) as an engineering teacher in 1996. He received a PhD degree at the Imre Ujhelyi Doctoral School of Zoology at the University of West Hungary (NYME) in 2007. He was elected mayor of Mosonmagyaróvár as the candidate of the Fidesz in the 2010 local elections.