Benjamin Dean (3 July 1839 – 5 March 1910) was a British trade union leader.
Born in Rushall, then in Staffordshire, Dean began working at a lime pit at the age of ten.
Around the age of eighteen, he joined the Primitive Methodists, and became interested in trade unionism, leading a branch at his local pit before, in 1887, becoming the first agent of the Pelsall District Miners' Association.
In 1907, he played little role in the dispute over MFGB affiliation to the Labour Party, but personally remained committed to the Liberals until his death in 1910.
[1] He was succeeded as secretary of the Pelsall miners by one of his sons, Frederick James Dean.