Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, OBE (born 23 October 1942) is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic. He currently lives in Scotland. Dunn was born on 23 October 1942 in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom. His father worked in the local India Tyres works, while his mother (a devout Presbyterian) kept house for a Catholic lady.

He was educated at the Scottish School of Librarianship, and worked as a librarian before he started his studies in Hull. After graduating with a First Class Honours degree from the University of Hull, he worked in the university's Brynmor Jones Library under Philip Larkin. He was friendly with Larkin and admired his poetry, but did not share his political opinions.

Larkin's influence has been found in Dunn's earlier work, though Dunn often expressed amused irritation at being regarded as "the other poet from Hull".Since becoming a full-time writer in 1971, Dunn has produced more then 10 collections of poetry, as well as short stories and plays. Elegies was named Whitbread Book Of The Year award in 1985, and he was made OBE in 2003.  "Douglas Dunn's sparkling, erudite and distinguished body of work has long been one of the grace notes of British poetry," said Duffy, as she named him as the winner of the poetry Gold Medal in 2013.