List of Famous people named Bela

Béla Károlyi is a Hungarian-born Romanian-American gymnastics coach. Early in his coaching career he developed the Romanian centralised training system for gymnastics. One of his earliest protégés was Nadia Comăneci, the first Olympic Games gymnast to be awarded a perfect score. Living under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, Károlyi frequently clashed with Romanian officials. He and his wife defected to the United States in 1981.

Béla Andreas Réthy is a German sports reporter of Hungarian ancestry.

Dirk Felsenheimer, better known under his stage name Bela B, is a German musician and songwriter. He is best known for being the drummer and one of the singers of punk rock band Die Ärzte. In 2006, he released his first solo album entitled Bingo. Bela B is also an actor and has done several voice-overs for television and film.

Bela Bach is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2020.

Béla Tarr is a Hungarian filmmaker. His body of work consists mainly of art films with philosophical themes and long takes.

Béla Bollobás FRS is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation. He was strongly influenced by Paul Erdős since the age of 14.

Béla Ernyey is a Hungarian film, television actor and singer with an Austrian passport.