András Schiffer (born on 19 June 1971 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician, leader of the Politics Can Be Different parliamentary group.
He received his Juris Doctor degree at the Eötvös Loránd University in 1995. His great-grandfather was Árpád Szakasits, a leading Social Democrat, then Communist political figure also president of Hungary in (1948-1949) and Chairman of the Presidential Council of the People's Republic of Hungary (1949-1950) during Communist rule.
In 1989 he was a member of the short-lived "New Generation Movement" led by Ferenc Gyurcsány. In 1990 he was a founding member of the Young Socialists political movement. He was a leader there until 1992 when he quit that organization. He then worked in the private sector and return to public affairs via the green movement. He became part of the leadership of Védegylet. Védegylet was instrumental in electing László Sólyom for President of Hungary, against the Socialist Speaker of the House, Katalin Szili, Schiffer took a leading role in that campaign personally as well. In 2008 he founded the Politics Can Be Different movement, which formed into a party in 2009 (LMP party). In the 2010 National Elections In Hungary he was the leader of the LMP party list and thus he was elected as member of the Hungarian Parliament.