László Varju

László Varju (born 22 August 1961) is a Hungarian politician and mining engineer. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Hungary since 2002. He served as Secretary of State for National Development and Economy from 2008 to 2010.

Profession László Varju was born on 22 August 1961 in Komló, Baranya County. He spent his childhood in Mágocs. He attended Károly Zipernovszky Secondary School of Mechanical Engineering in Pécs, where he obtained a qualification of electrical technician in 1979. He also obtained a qualification in collier, blasting and mining at the Mining Technical School in Pécs. He worked for the Mecsek Ore Mining Company between 1979 and 1989. After the transition to democracy, he managed a company in the private sector between 1989 and 1992.

In 2005 he studied at Szent István University as an economist, but he graduated from Károly Róbert College with a degree in economics (present-day both part of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Science) and graduated from Corvinus University of Budapest in 2008. Currently he is a PhD student at the Miklós Zrínyi University of National Defense (ZMNE) and its successor, the National University of Public Service (NKE). He is married and father of two daughters and a son. He was defeated by an independent candidate László Kreisz in the 2006 local elections.

He was elected a Member of Parliament via his party's regional list of Pest County in the 2002 parliamentary election, 2006 and 2010 parliamentary elections. He was a member of the Regional Development Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was also Chairman of the Central Hungary Regional Development Council from 2007 to 2008. Varju served as Secretary of State for National Development and Economy in the cabinets of Ferenc Gyurcsány and Gordon Bajnai, from 1 December 2008 to 29 May 2010. After the 2010 national election, when the Socialist Party was defeated by Fidesz, Varju was a member of the Health Committee from 2010 to 2011.

Thereafter, Varju became a part of Gyurcsány's inner circle, which heavily criticized the leadership of the MSZP. As a result, he joined Democratic Coalition Platform founded by the former prime minister. When the platform split from the Socialists on 22 October 2011 he joined to the newly formed party and left the MSZP and its parliamentary group. Formally, Varju was an independent MP between 2011 and 2018. He was a member of the Committee on Human Rights, Minorities, Civil and Religious Affairs from 2011 to 2014.