Baron Dániel Bánffy de Losoncz (18 September 1893 – 7 April 1955) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture between 1940 and 1944.

His grandfather was Baron Dezső Bánffy (1843–1911), who functioned as Speaker of the House of Representatives and Prime Minister of Hungary.

He farmed and managed his extensive estates, including Ciuguzel (Hungarian: Fugad), where he redesigned the Baroque-style mansion, extended by two staircases and one floor.

[4] He handed over the management of the family estates in Cluj County and the forestry and forest production company along the river Mureș by the 1930s.

[5] The Second Vienna Award returned the territory of Northern Transylvania – including the majority of the Bánffy estates – from Romania to Hungary in August–September 1940.

[5] As minister, Bánffy intended to regulate the river Ier (Ér) in the region Érmellék (Ținutul Ierului) in Northern Transylvania, in order to increase the efficiency of agricultural production.

[5] In April 1941, Bánffy objected against Hungary's involvement in the Nazi Invasion of Yugoslavia, citing permanent labor shortage in agriculture due to constant military mobilizations since 1938.

[7] Bánffy became a member of the Transylvanian Hungarian Council (EMT) in August 1944, which aimed to surrender Hungary to the advancing Red Army, opposing the German-backed puppet cabinet.

Its leaders Count Béla Teleki and Dániel Bánffy were willing to negotiate with the Soviet and Romanian military authorities on behalf of Northern Transylvania in September 1944.

Bánffy supported Regent Miklós Horthy's effort in order to declare an armistice with the Allies and withdrawn from the Axis in October 1944.

[9] Bánffy was excluded from the list of war criminals by the provisional government of Béla Miklós in February 1945, despite the proposal of the Hungarian Communist Party (MKP).

Their marriage produced seven children, including Miklós (born 1948), who served as mayor of Leányvár, Hungary from 1991 to 2006.