István Pálfi (23 September 1966, Berettyóújfalu – 15 July 2006, Berettyóújfalu) was a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party. He sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Regional Development. Pálfi was a substitute for the Committee on Budgets and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. He died after a long illness in his home town.