Carol Dunlop (April 2, 1946 – November 2, 1982) was a Canadian writer, translator, activist and photographer.

She is best known for being the co-author, with her husband the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, of the book The Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (1982).

She attended Lake Erie College, in Painesville, Ohio, on a creative writing scholarship and graduated from McGill University.

Among the places she visited in the course of her political activism were Nicaragua and Poland; in the latter country, she participated in a congress of solidarity with Chile.

[4] Singer-songwriter and poet, Joe Dolce, who took her to his Harvey High School Senior Prom, in 1965, when she was a sophomore at Lake Erie College, in Painesville, Ohio, recalls that she was very fragile and it was common knowledge, amongst her closest college friends, that she was struggling with a chronic illness.