Dale Dickson (born 3 July 1962) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1980s.
He has been the Chief Executive Officer of Australia’s second largest local government, the City of Gold Coast, since July 2003.
He is also a former Chief Executive Officer of the Whitsunday Shire Council.
Dickson was replaced by Tim Baker,a former Tasmanian government departmental secretary as CEO in February 2022.