Andrew Flinn Dickson (November 8, 1825 – January 8, 1879) was an American minister and author born in Charleston, South Carolina.
After graduation he began to teach in his native city, but soon moved to a more northern climate for the sake of his father's health.
In the meantime, he had been licensed to preach by the Middlesex (Conn) Association of Congregational Ministers, and was married on January 7, 1850 to Miss A. H. Woocthull, of Long Island.
After serving in this position for some years and acting for a short time as an agent of the American Tract Society, he took charge in 1856 of the Presbyterian Church in Orangeburg.
The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church established an Institute for the Training of Colored Ministers at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Dickson was appointed its first professor in October 1876.