Daniel Perkins Smith Paul (July 22, 1924 – January 24, 2010) was an American attorney best known for arguing the landmark case Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo before the Supreme Court of the United States.

On June 13, 2015 supporters led by Emerge Miami, the Urban Environment League and New Tropics named a four-acre Biscayne Bay waterfront site after Dan Paul.

In 1966, the Miami News called him "Dade's knight" and wrote of him that "the name Dan Paul comes up in so many civic controversies that it is hard to keep up with him".

Paul stated that he had filed the suit because "it would greatly hurt the future of Florida to let the Legislature grow to such monstrous proportions that we would cease to have effective government.

"[4] One of Paul's specialties was environmental law, and he represented the National Audubon Society in a late-1960s lawsuit to stop an airport from being constructed in the Florida Everglades, a protected region of subtropical wetlands.

[1] He also acted as a parks activist, protesting the removal of sidewalks designed by Brazilian architect Roberto Burle Marx.

[5] Paul played a major role in amending Miami's city code to block the construction of buildings within fifty feet of the shore.

[1] Paul represented the Miami Herald for more than three decades, as well as working for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NBC.

[1][7] James Goodale, a First Amendment specialist, described Paul after his death as "an important figure in freedom-of-press matters nationally and particularly in Florida ...