Gábor Gaál (8 March 1891 – 13 August 1954) was a Hungarian sociologist, literary critic and aesthetician active in Romania.
He studied Latin at the Eötvös Loránd University where he was politically radicalised after association with figures such as György Lukács, Béla Balázs, Ervin Šinkó and members of the anti militarist Galileo Circle.
After the fall of the Soviet Republic, he fled to Vienna where he published his works in multiple Hungarian émigré newspapers and magazines.
[2] He was in a leading position in the Hungarian People's Union and took part in the reorganization of the Romanian Academy, where was elected a member in 1948.
In the summer of 1952, Gaál suffered a stroke, which caused him to stop his literary activity and left many of his works unfinished.