Attila Petschauer (14 December 1904 – 30 January 1943) was a Hungarian Olympic champion sabre fencer of Jewish heritage.

[9] In Amsterdam in 1928 at the age of 23 he was part of the gold medal-winning Hungarian team in sabre, winning all 20 of his competition matches.

[10][6] In the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Petschauer was again part of the champion Hungarian sabre team.

Frozen from the water, he died shortly after.”[15][12][16][17] A fictionalized account of his life and death was dramatised in the 1999 film Sunshine, starring Ralph Fiennes.

[10][18] Recent research by historians Csaba B. Stenge and Krisztián Ungváry show that according to the records of the Hungarian Royal Army, Petschauer died of typhus in a Soviet POW camp.