Charles Denis Mee (December 28, 1927 – May 22, 2023) was a British-American engineer, physicist, and author who was noted for his contributions in the areas of magnetic recording and data storage on hard disk drives (HDD).

In 1957, he emigrated to the United States to join Columbia Broadcasting System Laboratories where he became Technical Director of the Magnetics Group.

Mee retired from IBM in 1993 and has since been a consultant to and participant in joint industry-university magnetic and optical data storage programs.

[14] Mee was one of the founding members of and has been a major contributor to the Storage Special Interest Group at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.

[3][7] He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his "extraordinary record of accomplishments" in 1970.

[3] He was also placed on the IT History Society Honor Roll as a "key technologist and pioneer in the computer industry".

[3] In 1994 he received the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award "for contributions to the design of optical, magneto-optical, and magnetic recording files".