Harry Dodgshun Bedford (31 August 1877 – 17 February 1918) was a New Zealand university academic and Member of Parliament for the City of Dunedin.

He received further education at Clifton School and left after Standard 6 (year 8) to work for his father's tailoring business.

Harry Bedford represented one of the multi-member City of Dunedin seats in the New Zealand Parliament from 1902 to 1905.

He became the sensation of the 1902 election: a political novice who had obtained the highest individual vote ever recorded in New Zealand.

The Lyttelton Times described him as "the 'idol of Dunedin' ... young, good-looking, able, earnest, energetic and highly attractive as a speaker".