Terplán Zénó (1921-2002) Széchenyi Prize-winning Hungarian engineer, professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was the founding leader of the Department of Machine Elements of the Technical University of Heavy Industry in 1949. He is the honorary citizen of Miskolc and honorary doctor of more foreign universities.

He has been leading the Department of Machine Elements for 39 years. He was an outstanding personality of the science organization and the history of science. Many generations of students preserves his memory, his highly structured lectures, and his machine structural freehand drawing figures on the board with engineering precision.

He participated in the work of a number of professional and non-governmental organizations. He was the president of the Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineers (1981-1990). and participated in the founding of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science.