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Péter Lékó (born September 8, 1979 in Szeged) is a Hungarian chess player. In the October 2004 FIDE list, he has an ELO rating rating of 2743, making him number six in the world, and Hungary's number one.

In 2001, Lékó narrowly defeated Grandmaster Michael Adams in an eight game Fischer Random Chess (Chess960) match played as part of the Mainz Chess Classic. As a result, Lékó was hailed by many as the first Fischer Random Chess world champion. This claim is not universally accepted, since there were no open qualifying matches. Many do accept the claim, however, since this was also true of the first orthodox world chess champion titleholders, and both players were in the top five in the January 2001 world rankings for orthodox chess.

Lékó won the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting in 2002 and, with Kramnik, the Linares tournament in 2003.

Under the terms of the so-called "Prague Agreement", masterminded by Yasser Seirawan, and intended to unite the two World Chess Championships, Lékó's 2002 win at Dortmund qualifies him to play a match against Vladimir Kramnik. The winner of this match will then play the winner of a match between Garry Kasparov and Rustam Kasimdzhanov, the 2004 FIDE World Champion, to decide the undisputed world champion. After several delays, it was announced in January 2004 that his match against Kramnik would be held from September 25-October 18, 2004. The outcome of the match between Lékó and Kramnik was 7-7, which entitled Kramnik to remain the reigning PCA (classical) world champion.


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