Dagfinn Bakke (16 August 1933 – 1 January 2019) was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and printmaker.

Bakke was born in Lødingen Municipality, and settled in Svolvær.

From 1956 to 1992 he was appointed as illustrator for the newspaper Lofotposten,[1] where he had a regular column which he signed as DAN.

[4] In 2013, Bjørn Tore Pedersen wrote a biography about Bakke.

[5][2] In 1983, his caricature of Margaret Thatcher, pictured as a besom-riding witch escorted home from the Falkland Islands by British aircraft, won first prize at the International Salon of Cartoons in Montreal.