Dinesh Kumar Patel (born 8 May 1989, in Lucknow, India) is an Indian right-handed baseball pitcher who played in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization.
Along with Rinku Singh, he was the first Indian national ever to sign a contract with a major American Baseball team.
Neither Patel nor Singh had ever thrown a baseball before beating over 37,000 competitors in The Million Dollar Arm, an Indian reality television show designed to find new baseball talent.