Arthur Dent (died 1607) was an English Puritan cleric, known as an author and preacher.
In 1582 he was one of the witnesses examined in support of charges brought against Robert Wright, a Puritan minister.
About 1584 Dent himself was in trouble with John Aylmer, his diocesan bishop, for refusing to wear the surplice and omitting the sign of the cross in baptism.
His name is appended to the petition sent to the lords of the council by twenty-seven ministers of Essex, who refused to subscribe the declaration "that there is nothing contained in the Book of Common Prayer contrary to the word of God".
Ezekiel Culverwell, in dedicating an edition of the Ruine of Rome to Lord Rich, remarked on Dent's diligence.