Lazar Brankov (1912 17 July - 3 December 2005), was a Yugoslav communist politician of Serbian nationality who was head of the Yugoslav delegation of the Allied Control Committee in Hungary after the Second World War. After the escalation of soviet-Yugoslav relations, he was arrested in 1949 and sentenced to life imprisonment in a conceptual trial with the name of Laszlo Rajk. He was released by amnesty in 1956 and emigrated to France, where he lived for the rest of his life.