Agustín Durán (14 October 1789 – 1 December 1862), Spanish scholar, was born in Madrid, where his father was the court physician.

From 1821 to 1823 he held a post in the education department at Madrid, but in the latter year he was suspended on account of his political opinions.

[1] In 1834, Durán became secretary of the board for the censorship of the press, and shortly afterwards obtained a post in the national library at Madrid.

In 1828, shortly after his first discharge from office, he published anonymously his Discurso sobre el influjo que ha tenido la critica moderna en la decadencia del teatro antiguo; this treatise greatly influenced the younger dramatists of the day.

Durán's Romancero general is the fullest collection of the kind and is therefore unlikely to be superseded, though the texts are inferior to those edited by Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo.