Gopalan Narasimhan (28 February 1916 – 5 July 1977) was an Indian journalist and entrepreneur who served as the Managing Director of The Hindu from 1959 until his death in 1977.
He was a grandson of S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar, the patriarch of the family that owns The Hindu.
Gopalan was the son of S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar and younger brother of K. Srinivasan.
Narasimhan graduated from the Presidency College, Madras and joined The Hindu at an early age.
He also served as the President of the Indian and Eastern Newspapers Society (INS) during 1956-57, Chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations of India from 1955 to 1959, Press Institute of India and was the Director of the Press Foundation of Asia.