Dmitry Ivanovich Chesnokov (Russian: Дми́трий Ива́нович Чесноко́в; 25 October [7 November] 1910 – 17 September 1973) was a Soviet professor of philosophy, journalist and politician.
After his lecture at the philosophical discussions of 1947, he was invited to Moscow and became the deputy head of the Science Department of the Directorate of Agitation and Propaganda of the All-Union Communist Party (b).
Joseph Stalin at the end of his life predicted him to be one of the main ideologues of the Communist Party.
In 1957 he was appointed Chairman of the State Committee for Radio and Television under the USSR Council of Ministers.
Full member of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in the Department of Theory and History of Pedagogy from 30 January 1968.