Paul Daniel Taylor (May 16, 1939 – July 18, 2021) was an American diplomat and academic who served as the United States ambassador to the Dominican Republic from 1988 to 1992.
Taylor joined the United States Foreign Service in 1960 and served in diplomatic assignments for two or three years each in Quito, Ecuador, Bangkok, Thailand, São Paulo, Brazil, and Madrid, Spain.
His final posting in the Foreign Service was as State Department advisor to the president of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island from 1992 to 1994.
While serving in this role, he edited volumes on maritime strategy that were translated into Spanish and Portuguese, becoming the college's first publication in a foreign language.
Following his retirement from full-time work, he continued to teach elective courses at the Naval War College on Latin America, the Caribbean region, and international economics.