Imre Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény (20 January 1823 – 5 October 1864) was a Hungarian aristocrat, writer, poet, lawyer, and politician. His major work is The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája, 1861). It is a dramatic poem approximately 4000 lines long, which elaborates on ideas comparable to Goethe's Faust and Milton's Paradise Lost.

The author was encouraged and advised by János Arany, one of the most famous 19th-century Hungarian poets. Madách was born in Alsósztregova, Kingdom of Hungary (today Dolná Strehová, Slovakia). The Madách family could trace their descent as far back as the 12th century, with a medieval knight, a Turk-beating hero, and a Kuruc officer recorded in the family lineage. Additionally, a poet, Gáspár Madách, from the 17th century, is remembered in the family history.