Carl Rossini Diton (October 30, 1886 – January 25, 1962) was a pianist and composer.

[6] He worked as a church organist at St. Thomas's African Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, offered private lessons, and was the assistant to the head of the symphonic orchestration department at Juilliard for nine years.

[7] Diton was a charter member of the National Association of Negro Musicians and served as its president from 1926 through 1928.

He was raised primarily by his aunts Emma and Josey Harvey.

[10] Diton was friends in childhood with Yolande Du Bois and maintained a correspondence with W. E. B.