Peter Bakonyi (10 July 1933 – 26 August 1997) was a Hungarian-born Canadian Olympic foil and épée fencer.

He was also a six-time Canadian national fencing champion, 18-time British Columbia fencing champion, three-time medalist at the Commonwealth Games, four-time silver medalist at the Maccabiah Games in Israel.

[4] He attended law school and fenced at Budapesti EAC in Budapest, graduating with a law degree in 1956 at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University and trained for the modern pentathlon (épée fencing, swimming, horseback riding, shooting, and cross country running).

[6][4] Bakonyi switched his career to real estate, and began to train solely in fencing.

[4] As of 1968, he worked as a finance manager in the real estate division of Canada Permanent Trust Company.