Alan Edward Mulgan OBE (18 May 1881 – 29 August 1962) was a New Zealand journalist, writer and broadcaster.

He was born in Katikati, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, of Protestant Irish parents,[1] on 18 May 1881,[2] and died in Lower Hutt.

In 1935, Mulgan was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.

[3] In the 1947 New Year Honours he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature, journalism and broadcasting.

Alan's elder son John Mulgan was also a writer and journalist.