István Fászl

István Fászl (6 February 1838 – 26 January 1900) was a Hungarian priest of the Benedictine order, a teacher, naturalist, and ornithologist.

He also took an interest in entomology and made a large collections of the flies of the Sopron region.

Fászl was born in Kőszeg where his father was a master shoemaker who decided that his son did not need to join him in the trade and enrolled him in the Gymnasium of the Benedictine order in 1855.

In his spare time he collected specimens of natural history and established a museum at the school.

He influenced several young students including the ornithologists István Chernel and Titusz Csörgey.