Harinath Dey (Bengali: ড: হরিনাথ দে) was a former lecturer of biochemistry at the University of Dhaka who was shot dead by the Pakistan armed forces on the Loharpool bridge in Sutrapur, Dhaka on the night of 27 March 1971.

[1] Dey was born in a Bengali Hindu family in 1941 in undivided India.

[2] He worked for some time as a nutrition officer with the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical Institute in India.

On 25 March 1971, the Pakistan army launched Operation Searchlight, a violent crackdown on the city, resulting in large number of civilian casualties.

In the afternoon of 27 March, Dey was picked up from his Malakartola Lane residence by the Pakistan army and taken to the army camp at Sutrapur police station, along with ten other Bengali Hindu residents of the area.