Dr. Ágoston Trefort (pronunciation: ['a:gɔʃtɔn 'trɛfɔrt]; 7 February 1817 – 22 August 1888) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education from 1872 until his death.

He was born into a Hungarian Catholic family of Walloon origin in Homonna, Zemplén County, Kingdom of Hungary (today Humenné, Slovakia).

Ágoston's father was Ignác Trefort (1770–1831), a famous surgeon, and his mother was Tekla Beldovics (died 1829).

They had three children: Ágoston, Antal (died in his infancy) and István (born 1825, year of death unknown).

His wife was also descendant of the ancient and prestigious medieval Hungarian noble Perneszy family, which died out in the 18th century.

He started his first big Western European round trip by favour of the paternal heritage and the Csáky family in April 1836.

The centralist group formed in these times, notable members were Eötvös, Trefort and historian László Szalay.

He published for the Pesti Hírlap about actual political questions (credit bank, inheritance, tax, industrialisation).

On 16 March 1848 (one day after the revolution broke out) he was appointed to the Vice-regency council's interim press policing department.

In the cabinet of Prime Minister Lajos Batthyány he served as state secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Trade.

The ministry preferred those types of school, which ones not onto human orbits, but foster onto industry, agriculture, trade.

Eötvös and Trefort's multi-faceted politics yielded the birth of the modern Hungarian higher education.

It was the turn of new institutions', departments', laboratories' organization, the change of a curriculum, the increase of the vocational standard as a result of all these.

Furthermore, new departments came into existence, the scientific and medical faculty buildings were built, the artistic higher educational institutions organized.

With regard to the Faculty's of Arts development important result creating the institution of the seminars and the study time from three raising it to four years.

He ordered the regular keeping of the methodological meetings in the schools in the interest of the improvement of the teaching methods.

In connection with the national question the Magyarization political sketching characterize him, which is after his death, getting stronger turned into really reactionary.

For those ministerial, municipal and institution employees can be donated, who make work rising through longer time in the interest of the education.