Radim Palouš (6 November 1924 – 10 September 2015) was a Czech dissident, philosopher, educator, and former spokesman for Charter 77, and from 1990 to 1994, was the rector of Charles University in Prague.
After graduating in Prague, he was placed in forced labor during World War II.
In November 1989, as one of the representatives of the Civic Forum, he participated in meetings and negotiations during the Velvet Revolution to release Czechoslovakia from its Communist rule.
Throughout his times, he traveled and lectured in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia and received nine honorary doctorates (eight at foreign universities and one in the Czech Republic).
For his work in publishing writings on Patočka, he was awarded the Prize of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, and most notably, for his lifelong work, the third class of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in 1997.