Ferenc Kemény (17 July 1860 – 21 November 1944) was a Hungarian sports manager, educational writer, humanist peace activist, and a founding member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which initiated and launched the modern Olympic Games, and the founding secretary of the Hungarian Olympic Committee. He was also a broad-minded teacher, sports diplomat, and some consider him among the greatest figures in the 19th-century Hungarian civil peace movement. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.