Daniel ("Danny") Wilhelmus Maria Nelissen (born 10 November 1970 in Sittard, Netherlands) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer and former sports commentator at Eurosport.

According to Nelissen, his use of a power meter was key to his win: he claimed that he was one of the few riders "(who) had them and knew what they could do" at that time, alongside Greg LeMond and Jonathan Vaughters.

During the race he was able to use this tactic to catch up to the other riders in the winning break after being dropped by them at the start of the climb.

In the 1996 Tour de France, he wore the polka dot jersey as leader of the mountains classification for a couple of days.

Danny Nelissen was the first Dutch road bicycle racer to admit the use of doping during the years 1996 and 1997.