Dan Dutescu (21 October 1918 – 26 September 1992) was a professor of English language and literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania, and a member of the Romanian Writers' Union.
A graduate of the School of English Studies of the Bucharest University's Department of Letters, he taught Romanian at the Universities of London (1964-1965) and Cambridge (1971-1973).He had a son, Dan, and a daughter, Taina Dutescu-Coliban, a linguist and mountain climber who went missing in 1992 while trying to climb Mt.