György Enyedi (25 August 1930 – 10 September 2012) was an economist and geographer who has played a major role in the long-term development of regional science.
He was the leader of a worldwide comparative research team of the International Geographical Union, studying the development of rural space between 1972 and 1984.
In 1984 he founded the Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Today the centre is the leading organization of Hungarian regional science with a staff of one hundred researchers in four institutes, with a profile of analyses of European and Hungarian regional development.
Based on the text of Gyula Horváth Hungarian Quarterly volume XLII nr.161 Spring 2001