Darko Hudelist (born 1959) is a Croatian journalist, non-fiction writer and researcher of contemporary history.

Hudelist marked the period during which the first political parties in the Socialist Republic of Croatia were created with his book Banket u Hrvatskoj: Prilozi povijesti hrvatskog višestranačja 1989.-1990.

The book proved to be very successful (and it was preceded by a six-part series published in the Nedjeljna Dalmacija weekly newspaper).

In 1992, Hudelist published a book about war journalism in Croatia titled Novinari pod šljemom (Journalists under Helmets).

He authored and published many articles for Globus as well as having published extensive analytical interviews with prominent Croatian politicians and full-length series about the most significant political and historically-political topics like Ratni memoari generala Martina Špegelja (War Memoirs of General Martin Špegelj, 1995), Tuđman: biografija (Tuđman: A Biography, 1996–1997), Kanadski životopis Gojka Šuška (A Canadian Biography of Gojko Šušak, 1999–2000), Trinaest stoljeća kršćanstva u Hrvata (Thirteen Centuries of Christianity amongst Croatians, 2008), etc.

At the end of 1995, he wrote a lengthy Izvještaj o hrvatskoj estradi (A Report on Croatia's Pop Music) for Globus in the form of two separate texts.

After that book, Darko Hudelist began his extensive research of the history of Croatian-Serbian relations and conflicts in the 20th century.

The book is quite lengthy (with some 1500 cards of text); it proved to be very successful and was sold out in a short amount of time; however, it also caused numerous controversies.

(My Belgrade Journal: Meetings and Conversations with Dobrica Ćosić 2006–2011) was a kind of recapitulation of his historical research in Belgrade during that period and, at the same time, a fairly complex and multi-dimensional portrait of the most significant protagonist of Serbian nationalism in Tito's Yugoslavia, Dobrica Ćosić.

Amongst other things he shared with Hudelist, Ćosić revealed his suicidal thoughts, which he was obsessed with since his youth and which significantly predefined his public and political (appositional) activities in the SFR Yugoslavia.