István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovene priest and poet (d. 1829)
István Pauli or István Pável (Slovene: Števan Pauli, July 13, 1760 – January 29, 1829) was a Hungarian Slovene Roman Catholic priest. Pauli was the teacher of Pertoča György Kousz who was the author of a hymnal in Pertoča.
He was born in Beltinci. His parents were Márk Pável and Katalin Gyrék. In Bratislava, he studied theology, and in 1789 he was ordained. From 1790-1797, he was the priest of Pertoča. On October 1, 1822, he retired to Szombathely and died there sometime later.