István Tiba

Dr. István Tiba (born 6 May 1962) is a Hungarian dentist and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Balmazújváros (Hajdú-Bihar County Constituency VIII) from 2002 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2014. Thereafter, he was MP for Hajdúböszörmény (Hajdú-Bihar County Constituency VI) from 2014 to 2026. He was also MP from the county regional list of Fidesz between 2008 and 2010. He was elected mayor of Balmazújváros during the local elections held in 2006, holding the office until 2014.

Work experience István Tiba finished the Földes Ferenc Secondary School in Miskolc in 1980. He worked as a male nurse for the Hungarian Ambulance Service in Budapest from 1980 to 1982, then as a dental technician for the Dental Technology Company from 1982 to 1983. After that, he studied at the Faculty of Dentistry of Debrecen University of Medicine and graduated as a dentist in 1988.

Football Under his chairmanship, the Balmazújvárosi FC was re-established in 2011. The club received 1.2 billion HUF public funds as a backing to develop the club's stadium and the team from 2011 to 2016. Balmazújváros finished second in the 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság II season thereby gaining promotion to the highest level of the Hungarian League system. After spending a year in Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the club relegated to the second level and went into bankrupt by 2018. On 29 August 2019, the club was excluded from the 2019–20 Nemzeti Bajnokság II too due to financial problems.