Can Togay (; born August 27, 1955), also known as János Can Togay, is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, actor, poet, producer, cultural manager and cultural diplomat.
Can Togay was born the son of Turkish parents. He grew up in Budapest, Hungary and Leipzig, East Germany. In 1969, he joined the Péter Halász theatre troupe in Budapest. Between 1973 and 1978, he studied German and English literature and linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, followed by two years of post-graduate work on German-French comparative linguistics with Jean-Marie Zemb at Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He graduated in 1980. In 1984, he received a degree in film directing from the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, he was a student of Zoltán Fábri. In 1991 he moved to Finland for four years.
His 1992 film A nyaraló was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1978, his poems were published in Mozgó Világ (Moving World). In 2004, his first volume of poetry was released by the publisher, Aranykor Kiadó (Golden Age Publisher). He conceived the idea of the Holocaust Memorial Cipà Âk a Duna-parton (Shoes on the Danube Promenade) in Budapest that was realised with artist Gyula Pauer.
Between January 1, 2008 and October 1, 2014, he was head of Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, the Hungarian Institute for Science and Culture in Berlin; he was also the cultural attaché at the Hungarian Embassy in the German capital.