Carl Elliott (born July 25, 1961) is an American academic working as a professor in department of philosophy at the University of Minnesota.

Elliott received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award in 2018.

He was the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the John W. Kluge Center at the United States Library of Congress in 2019.

His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books, The Believer, The American Prospect and Dissent.

Elliott has authored or edited seven books, including A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture and Identity (Routledge, 1999), Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream (W.W. Norton, 2003), and White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine (Beacon Press, 2010).