Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke (26 April 1915 – 10 July 1993) was an English classicist and philologist who was Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Leeds.
He studied Classics at Stowe School and King's College, Cambridge from which he held an MA.
During the years 1961-2, Dilke held the Chair of Classics at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
[1] Dilke helped establish the Varronian Institute in Rieti.
He is known for his scholarship of Latin language and text, studies of Greek theatres, and, in particular, his work on ancient cartography and land surveying.