Ernő Munkácsi (7 August 1896 – 1 September 1950) was a Hungarian jurist and writer, general counsel of the Israelite Congregation of Pest, and Director of the Hungarian Jewish Museum. In 1944, during the Nazi occupation of Hungary, he was forced by the Nazis, along with other leaders of Budapest's Jewish community, to serve as secretary for the Hungarian Jewish Council or Judenrat. Born in what is today Panticeu, Romania — at the time Páncélcseh, Austria-Hungary — Ernő Munkácsi was a son of the distinguished Hungarian linguist and ethnographer Bernát Munkácsi (1860–1937) and grandson of the He