Bent Fuglede (8 October 1925 – 7 December 2023) was a Danish mathematician.

In 1952 he was employed as scientific assistant at Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt and in 1954 as amanuensis at Matematisk Institut University of Copenhagen, in 1958 associate professor, and in 1959 head of department.

[2][3] Fuglede also spent one year in Lund (Sweden) as Nordic docent.

(Ph.D.) in 1960 from the University of Copenhagen; his doctoral advisor was Børge Jessen,[4] after which he became professor of math at Danmarks tekniske Højskole.

[7] Fuglende was married to Ólafía Einarsdóttir, an Icelandic archeologist and historian.