Miksa Falk (or sometimes Maximilian Falk, 7 October 1828 – 10 September 1908) was a Hungarian politician, journalist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the editor-in-chief of the German-language newspaper Pester Lloyd.

Falk was born to an impoverished Hungarian-Jewish[1] merchant family in Pest, which was a separate town (on the east bank of the river Danube) that was later united with the towns of Buda and Óbuda (on the west bank of the river Danube) in 1873 to form Budapest, the capital of Hungary.

[2][3][4] Initially, Falk worked for the magazine Ungar (Hungarian), then he moved to Vienna.

At the same time, he wrote supporter conservative articles anonymously for the Budapesti Hírlap.

[7] Between 1850 and 1860, he joined the circle of István Széchenyi, who at that time lived in Döbling, Austria.