Sir Daniel McGarvey, CBE (16 September 1919 – 26 April 1977) was a British trade unionist.
[1] At the age of fifteen, he began working as an apprentice caulker.
[2] He became active in the United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders, being elected to its general council in 1951, and in 1954 to the executive council of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.
In 1964, he was elected as General Secretary of the renamed Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers.
[1][3] McGarvey received the CBE in 1970, and was knighted shortly before his death.