István Jakab (born 17 September 1949) is a Hungarian agronomist, politician and leader of the National Federation Of Hungarian Peasants Association And Cooperatives (MAGOSZ). He was a founding member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum in 1988. He quit the party in 1995 and became co-chairman of the MAGOSZ and Vice President of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture, a position which he held until 2001. He was elected a member of the presidency of the National Cooperative Council in 1996. He has served as the sole chairman of the MAGOSZ since 1999. In this capacity, he organized the tractor farmers' protest to Budapest in early 2005, during which the capital was blocked.