Orlo Marion Brees (April 13, 1896 – November 1980) was an American newspaper editor, author, lecturer, poet, and politician from New York.
He worked as a coal miner, textile worker, salesman, teacher, printer, editor, and publisher; and eventually settled in Endicott, Broome County, New York.
In 1924, he married his second wife, Nina Vivian McBride of Ava, Illinois.
In 1933, he married Frances Willard Freeman, and their only child was Orlo Manford Brees (born 1939).
On February 13, 1952, Brees was elected to the New York State Senate (45th D.), to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Floyd E. Anderson to the New York Supreme Court.