József Róna

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József Róna(1861 Lovasberény - 1939 Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor and artist. His work mainly involved wood sculpture reflecting naturalism.

He was apprenticed to a joiner, then worked in the workshop of a sculptor. He went to Vienna on a scholarship in 1879 and spent three years in the school of Zumbusch from 1882. While in Berlin in 1895, his first large scale statue allowed him to go on a scholarship to Rome. Cornered Faun was awarded with the Rökk Prize, Last Love with the Gold Prize in Antwerpen and the Grand Prix in Paris.

Rona's best known work Joseph and Putifarne, a wood carving also won him the Gold Prize.

His statuettes of biblical and mythological subjects indicated a high level of artistic skill which was needed particularly in his more diminuative sculptures. His major work was the equestrian statue of Eugene de Savoie in neo-baroque style.

Other works include the statues of Zrinyi in Budapest, Bertalan Szemere and Kossuth in Miskolc and Klapka in Komárom

Rona was known to be a member of the Benczúr Society. Many of his works are exhibited in the Hungarian National Gallery at Buda Palace in Budapest.