Mircea III Dracul (died 1534) was one of the two sons of Mihnea cel Rău, making him the grandson of Vlad Dracula.

[1] Due to his anti-Ottoman views, Emperor Maximilian I sent him a gift in the form of a mail cap and shirt covered with gold cloth and velvet, and decorated with several sapphires and garnets, in the hopes of securing an alliance with "the Great Wallachian", as he referred to Mircea.

[2] Mircea left Wallachia around 26 January 1510, after a battle near Cotmeana with an Ottoman army led by Neagoe, the former great postelnic.

The last information about him comes from 1514, when he asked the saxons from Brașov to deliver his weapons left there by John Zápolya to his residence in Cetatea de Baltă (at that time owned by Bogdan III of Moldavia), and requested assistance in fighting the Turks.

[4] In 1521, a false venetian story saying that he managed to take the throne from Teodosie with help from Mehmed bei of Nicopolis circulated in Budapest.