Dean Arthur Miller (July 29, 1931 - January 28, 2018) was an American historian who was Professor of History at the University of Rochester.

Miller researched a diverse set of subjects, including the Byzantine Empire, Ancient Sparta, Greek mythology and Indo-European studies.

He was proficient in a large number of languages, including Latin, Ancient Greek, French, German, and Russian, Old Church Slavonic and Bulgarian.

Miller retired from the University of Rochester in 1993, but continued to research, write and attend academic conferences.

It was the result of 20 years of scholarship, drew on interdisciplinary research spanning the fields of classics, anthropology, psychology, philology, and spanned all the Western epic traditions, including Greek, Roman, Nordic and Celtic, in addition to Indian and Persian.