Dante Lazaro Jimenez (August 4, 1952 – January 29, 2021) was a Filipino educator and victims' rights campaigner best known as the founder of the advocacy group Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption.

[1] He was a prominent figure in the Duterte administration, serving as the inaugural chairman of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission from 2018 and as co-chairman of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs from 2020.

[5] His father Jaime Chavez Jimenez Sr. was a World War II guerilla veteran from Libmanan, Camarines Sur who served as a post-war Philippine Navy commodore and who founded the Merchants' Polytechnic University in Manila.

After spending eleven years in uniform, he applied for early retirement and  joined his parents' maritime education businesses in Naga and Canaman in 1985.

[4] In 1991, he began active participation in civil society as a co-founder of a victims' rights group, Crusade Against Violence (CAV) with Lauro Vizconde and Romulo Villa.

[8][1] He also led the filing of malversation charges against former President Benigno Aquino III for alleged anomalies in the Disbursement Acceleration Program, the criminal charges against Senator Leila de Lima for her alleged involvement in the New Bilibid Prison drug trafficking scandal, and the impeachment complaints against Supreme Court chief justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and Commission on Elections chair Andres Bautista.