Gilbert Haven (September 19, 1821 – January 3, 1880) was a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872.

[3] He was an early benefactor of Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University), visualizing it as a university of all the Methodist schools founded for the education of freedmen (former African American slaves).

[5] They had two children, one of whom, William, served for 29 years as the general secretary of the American Bible Society.

[5] He traveled widely, visiting the Holy Land, Africa, Mexico and Europe, and was an early proponent of equality of the sexes.

[5] After the Civil War he was editor of Zion's Herald, a weekly newspaper for New England's Methodists.