Baron István Dobó de Ruszka (c. 1502 - Szerednye (today, Середнє (Szerednye /
Serednie,
Ukraine), mid-June 1572) was a
Hungarian soldier, best known as the successful defender of
Eger against the Ottomans in 1552. Dobó was a member of the Hungarian land-owning nobility, with holdings in northern Hungary. In the dynastic succession struggles after the
Battle of Mohács in 1526, Dobó was consistently on the side of the
Habsburg King Ferdinand I rather than that of
John Zápolya.