Major General David Lanyon Lloyd Owen, CB, DSO, OBE, MC (10 October 1917 – 5 April 2001) was a British soldier and writer.
Lloyd Owen took part in a number of operations, including the SAS raid on Tobruk in August/September 1942, which earned him the Military Cross.
Lloyd Owen took command of the LRDG at the end of 1943 after the death of his predecessor Jake Easonsmith during the Battle of Leros.
He based himself at Bari in southern Italy from which he mounted a successful raid on Corfu and staged operations in the Dalmatian islands and Yugoslavia.
In the early 1960s he led the 24th Infantry Brigade Group in Kenya and was then, from 1966 to 1968, General Officer Commanding (GOC), Cyprus District.