List of Famous people born in Zala County, Hungary

Lajos Básti was a Hungarian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1935 to 1977.

Ferenc Deák de Kehida was a Hungarian statesman and Minister of Justice. He was known as "The Wise Man of the Nation" and one of the greatest figures of Hungary's liberal movement.

Júlia Szendrey was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator, most known as the wife of celebrated Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi.

Johann Schnitzler was an Austrian Jewish laryngologist and professor. He was the father of Arthur Schnitzler.

Baron Tamás Nádasdy de Nádasd et Fogarasföld (I), called the Great Palatine (1498–1562), Hungarian statesman, was the son of Ferenc I Nádasdy and his first wife Orsolya Therjék de Szenterzsébet. After Tamás's mother's death, his stepmother was Orsolya Véssey de Vésse. He was educated at Graz, Bologna and Rome.

István Konkoly was a Hungarian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as Bishop of Szombathely from 1987 to 2006.