Dr. János Vilmos Fónagy (born 11 July 1942)[1] is a Hungarian jurist, economist and politician, who served as Minister of Transport and Water Management between 2000 and 2002.

Before the end of Communism in Hungary, he was a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP), from where he quit in 1985.

[1] After the transformation into a people's party in 2003-2004 he was awarded the constituency chairmanship of the Budapest 13th District (Angyalföld) organisation.

[2] As Parliamentary Secretary for the Prime Minister's Office appointed on 1 February 2000, he was head of the Economic, Financial and Agricultural Unit.

[2] János Fónagy was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary for National Development after the elections in 2010, under minister Tamás Fellegi.

[4] On 1 May 2012 he was appointed Government Commissioner responsible for the conversion of public transport for one-year term.

In the final parliamentary debate, on 11 July 2011, Jobbik MP Előd Novák caused a stir by exclaiming "what else could be expected" from Fónagy than that proposal.

János Lázár, leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group, asked Novák to apologize, which he declined to do.

Fónagy responded he did not expect Novák to apologize, as the Jobbik politician only said the same thing his "spiritual role models" had said.

Fónagy asked the Jobbik MP not to blame the Jewish community for being small.