Zsolt Bayer (born 26 February 1963) is a Hungarian far-right[1] and pro-Russian[citation needed] journalist, whose views have been widely described as racist,[2][3][4][5][6][1] homophobic and transphobic,[7] and antisemitic.

In the Austrian daily Die Presse, the journalist Karl Pfeifer described Bayer as a "fecal anti-Semite" in an article published during 2011.

[13] In 2013, Bayer wrote an opinion piece for Magyar Hírlap referring to the killings of Marian Cozma and Gergely Sávoly, where Roma were suspected of involvement,[14] and commented that many gypsies are "animals... unfit to live among people" and "potential murderers [who] should not exist.

[18][19] In a November 2020 opinion article in Magyar Nemzet titled "Breaking the Taboo", Bayer called black criminals "niggers".

By early September, 100 previous recipients of Hungarian state awards, among them president of the Lantos Foundation, Katrina Swett, returned them in protest at the decision to honour Bayer.