József Bánóczi (July 4, 1849 – 1926) was a Hungarian Jewish scholar.

He was educated at the schools of his native town, and afterwards at the universities of Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, Göttingen, and Leipsic, and then went to Paris and London to finish his studies.

At the insistence of Dr. Beck, the Bucharest rabbi, Bánóczi and Prof. Wilhelm Bacher took the necessary steps to save from certain ruin the congregation and schools of the sect of Szekler Sabbatarians in Transylvania who converted to Judaism in 1868.

Bánóczi, together with Bernát Alexander, edited the Filozofiai Írók Tára; he also edited Erdélyi's philosophical writings (1885), and the works of Károly Kisfaludy, 6 vols., 1893.

He was a contributor to the Philosophische Monatshefte and many Hungarian literary magazines, and published papers in the programs of the Normal School for Teachers.