David Wylie Bleakley CBE (11 January 1925 – 26 June 2017) was a Northern Irish politician and peace campaigner.

Born in the Strandtown district of Belfast, Bleakley worked as an electrician in the Harland and Wolff dockyards while becoming increasingly active in his trade union.

He studied economics at Ruskin College in Oxford, where he struck up a friendship with C. S. Lewis about whom he later wrote a centenary memoir.

In 1971, Brian Faulkner appointed him as his Minister for Community Relations at Stormont,[4] but as Bleakley was not an MP, he could only hold this post for six months.

In 1998, he joined the Labour Party of Northern Ireland and stood in Belfast East in the Assembly elections,[2] receiving 369 first preference votes.