László Piros (10 May 1917 – 13 January 2006) was a Hungarian communist politician and military officer, who served as Interior Minister between 1954 and 1956.

[1] Following the arrest of Gábor Péter, Piros led State Protection Authority (ÁVH) from 1953.

On 10 November, at the request of Hungarian dictator János Kádár, he was sent back to the Soviet Union, and he was stripped of his parliamentary mandate on 9 May 1957.

From September 1958 he was chief engineer and from 1969 the director of the Pick Szeged salami factory.

After his retirement in 1977 Piros served as chairman of the Csongrád County Council of Trade Unions for many years.