Pál Szécsi (19 March 1944 – 30 April 1974) was a Hungarian pop singer, one of the most popular of all time, who achieved unprecedented cult status during his lifetime.

His mother gave one-year-old Szécsi and his two siblings to foster parents, and during the Revolution of 1956, fled the country for the United States through Austria.

She traveled with Szécsi's older sister until the train station of Vienna, but she left her there, eventually leaving Kati and Pál in Hungary.

His success was further established through his creation of covers for Italian pop songs like Sergio Endrigo's L' arca di Noe which became Kósza szél.

The play Szécsi Pál szerelmei was written to his memory, describing his six loves, framed by six suicide attempts, featuring seventeen of his songs.