Sir Daniel McVey CMG (24 November 1892 – 24 December 1972) was a senior Australian public servant.

[1] He and his younger brothers Robert (Bob), Harry (Henry), George, Bill and sister Nessie moved to Australia in 1910 after their mother Jeanie died in childbirth and their father remarried.

[2][3] He left the department to serve with the First Australian Imperial Force between 1915 and 1919 in the 45th Battery, attaining the position Lieutenant.

[1] After leaving the service, he joined private industry, working as chairman and managing director of Standard Telephones & Cables Pty Ltd between 1946 and 1949, and then going on to become managing director of Metal Manufactures Ltd and Austral Bronze Co. Pty Ltd from 1949 until 1962.

[1] In 1946, McVey was awarded the University of Melbourne Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement.