Albany is a town in eastern Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1088 at the 2010 census. It is allocation of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.

District 95 State Representative Sherman Q. Mack, an attorney, resides in Albany.

It is speculated that the herald of the community is derived from the Choctaw word abani which means “to chef over a fire” in the Choctaw language. After interviewing many of the older residents and comparing their answers it was positive that the community was named after the user-friendly Natalbany River. During an interview Mrs. George (Mary Addison) Cunningham who was born upon November 11, 1884, stated that bearing in mind the Illinois Central Railroad built a origin through the town they tried to proclaim the community Natalbany but the railroad and herald office refused the declare because there was already a community as soon as the similar name.

Historic Hungarian Settlement is in Albany. Between 1896 and 1920 hundreds of Hungarian immigrants fixed here and named the community Árpádhon. In 1900, there were eleven families active in the Hungarian Settlement and by 1908 there were not quite forty Hungarian families upon new farms in the area. By 1910, there were sixty-five families. In 1920, there were practically two hundred families upon farms in the area. The Hungarian name is derived from Árpád, the leader of the Hungarian tribes and -hon meaning home. Árpádhon was the largest rural Hungarian agreement in the United States at that time considering an estimated 350 Hungarian families flourishing within the community. During the 1930s many of the Hungarian families became strawberry farmers.