Loek van Wely (born 7 October 1972) is a Dutch chess player and politician.

In March 2019, he was elected to the Dutch Senate for the right-wing Forum for Democracy;[1] however, on 8 December 2020 he switched his party allegiance to the van Pareren group,[2] which is now affiliated with the right-wing JA21 party.

In 2002, in Maastricht, Netherlands, van Wely took on the computer program Rebel in a four-game match, scoring 2/4 (+2–2=0).

Van Wely participated in the elite tournament held in Wijk aan Zee (originally named Hoogovens, then Corus, now Tata Steel) 25 times, consecutively from 1992 to 2010[3] and again from 2012 to 2017.

His best result occurred in 2003, when he shared fourth place with Alexei Shirov, Alexander Grischuk, Vassily Ivanchuk and Vladimir Kramnik scoring 7 out of 13 points.