Dinesh S. Thakur (born 1961) is an Indian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at University of Rochester.

He got his Ph.D in 1987 at Harvard University[3] under the guidance of Professor John Tate.

Thakur wrote a research monograph Function Field Arithmetic.

[7] Thakur is a founding member of-and for 15 years a participant in-the NSF-funded Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry and the Arizona Winter School.

[8] He was elected as a member of the 2017 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to the arithmetic of function fields, exposition, and service to the mathematical community".