Carl P. Daw Jr. (born 1944 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American Episcopal priest.
He is curator of hymnological collections and adjunct professor of hymnology at Boston University School of Theology, and was executive director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada from 1996 to 2009.
Son of a Baptist pastor, he moved frequently with his father throughout Tennessee during his youth.
and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and taught English at the College of William and Mary for eight years before entering the seminary for his M.Div.
He then served at various parishes throughout the Eastern United States before he began work on hymns.