Béla Pogány (1.04.1887-23.12.1943) — a Hungarian physicist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1931). He was born in Budapest. In 1911 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen. From 1923 he was professor at the Higher Technical School in Budapest.
His work concerned optics, electricity, ferromagnetism and atomic physics.
In 1942—43 he was president of the R. Eötvös Physical Society.