Rear Admiral David Animle Hansen (17 May 1923 – 28 January 2008) was a Ghanaian naval officer who served as Chairman of the Greater Accra Regional Administrative Committee from 1966 to 1967 in the National Liberation Council regime and as Commander of the Ghana Navy from 1962 to 1967.

[1] Hansen worked briefly at Ghana Post before enlisting into the army two years after his high school graduation.

[3] Hansen underwent the platoon commander's course at Warminster in 1954 and the following year trained at the Infantry Signal School.

[1] In July 1960, Hansen was appointed Lieutenant Colonel and posted to the Third Battalion in Congo which he commanded until January 1961.

During his command of the Third Battalion in Congo, he was recalled to accompany President Kwame Nkrumah to the United Nations in New York.

[4][5] In 1966, after Nkrumah's overthrow, the National Liberation Council appointed Hansen as Chairman of its Greater Accra Regional Administrative Committee.