Lajos Palágyi (15 April 1866 – 7 March 1933), born Lázár Silberstein (Yiddish: לייזר זילבערשטיין), was a Hungarian poet, journalist, and educator.

[1] Born in Becse to Jewish parents Rozália (Reizel, née Seelenfreund) and Mór (Moshe) Silberstein, he was educated privately by his father, a former public school-teacher, and by his elder brother Menachem (later known as Melchior Palágyi).

He began to write at the age of thirteen, his first poem appearing in 1879 in Emil Ábrányi [hu] Magyar Népbarát.

In recognition of his services to the Hungarian language he was appointed professor at the State Teachers' Seminary for women at Budapest.

[2] Following the 1918–1920 Hungarian revolution, he was expelled from the Petőfi Society and deprived of his pension because of his past associations with socialism.