Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (14 July 1856 – 17 June 1895) (pronunciationⓘ) was a social reformer, educationist, and thinker from Bombay Presidency, British India.

At one time a close associate of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, he co-founded educational institutes such as the New English School, the Deccan Education Society and Fergusson College along with Tilak, Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi, Vaman Shivram Apte, V. B. Kelkar, M. S. Gole and N. K.

Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was born on 14 July 1856 in Tembhu, a village in Karad taluk, Satara district, Maharashtra.

[citation needed] He was the first editor of Kesari, a prominent Marathi-language weekly newspaper founded by Lokmanya Tilak in 1880–1881.

He started his own periodical, Sudharak, in which he campaigned against the injustices of untouchability and the caste system.