Ian D. Clark (born 1958) is an academic historian and Toponymist whose primary work has focused on Victorian Aboriginal history, aboriginal toponymy and the frontier conflict between Indigenous Australians and immigrant settlers during the European settlement of Victoria, Australia.
He completed his PhD in western Victorian Aboriginal historical geography at Monash University in 1992.
For a time he was the manager of the Brambuk Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Halls Gap, Gariwerd.
[2] He has written extensively on Victorian Aboriginal history including editing the journals of George Augustus Robinson.
The interaction between the Wurundjeri people and the early settlement of Melbourne was told in the 2004 book – A bend in the Yarra : a history of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841–1851, which Clark co-authored with Toby Heydon.