Dan Healey (born March 21, 1957) is a Canadian and English historian and Slavist.

[1] In 1981 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Russian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto.

In the 1980s he worked in the tourism industry in Canada, Great Britain, and the USSR.

His book Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia (2001) won the second place of the Gladstone Prize of the Royal Historical Society.

[2] His scholarly interests include the history of LGBT people of Russia, Russian and Soviet medicine and psychiatry, Russian and Soviet penitentiary institutions, GULAG.