Alan Henry Scanlan (born 23 June 1931) is an Australian politician.
He was born in Caulfield to commercial traveller Edward Daniel John Scanlan and Winifred Bernice Fowler.
On 16 December 1961 he married fellow teacher Shirley Jane Pope, with whom he had one son.
In 1961 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Oakleigh.
He subsequently moved to Trinity Beach in Queensland, where he served on Mulgrave Shire Council from 1982.