Gustav Wikkenhauser (1901–1974) was a Hungarian engineer, naturalized as a British citizen in 1941. In 1932 he moved from Hungary to England to work on mechanical television, working for Scophony. Wikkenhauser was born in 1901 in Budapest, Hungary. When twenty-six years old, he graduated from the University of Budapest in . He graduated in 1926, and was employed by Allgemeine Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft AG in Germany. He relocated to Berlin. In his employment there, he built the two 30-line television receivers that the Hungarian engineer Dénes Mihály demonstrated at the 1928 .