Daniel Franklin Lafean (February 7, 1861 – April 18, 1922) was an American politician and businessman who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1913 and again from 1915 to 1917.

Lafean was born in York, Pennsylvania to German immigrants from Posen.

Lafean was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses.

He again engaged in manufacturing pursuits and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He was interred in Prospect Hill Cemetery in York, Pennsylvania.