Ferenc Lajos Ákos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (16 November 1841 – 25 May 1914) was a Hungarian civil engineer and politician.

After working as a civil engineer on the Forest of Dean Central Railway, he went to Italy in 1861, where he resided for the next 33 years, taking a considerable part in the railway construction of the peninsula, including the Fréjus rail tunnel, and at the same time keeping alive the Hungarian independence question by a whole series of pamphlets and newspaper articles.

In the autumn of 1898 he became the leader of the obstructionists or "Independence Party", against the successive Dezső Bánffy, Kálmán Széll, Károly Khuen-Héderváry and István Tisza administrations (1898–1904), exercising great influence not only in parliament but upon the public at large through his articles in the Egyetértés.

[citation needed] The elections of 1905 having sent his party back with a large majority, he was received in audience by the king and helped to construct the Sándor Wekerle ministry, in which he was Minister of Commerce.

From his bed of sickness, to which he was confined from the autumn of 1913 onwards, he declined any participation with Károlyi against the Triple Alliance policy of the dual monarchy.