Ran Goren (Hebrew: רן גורן; born March 19, 1942) is a retired fighter pilot and Major General of the IDF, former Deputy Commander of the Air Force and Head of the Manpower Directorate.

At the first month of the War of Attrition, Goren served in the 117 Squadron (Dassault Mirage III), and on July 8, 1969 he shot down a Syrian MiG-21 using a Python missile during an air battle.

During the first day of the war, Goren shot down an Mil Mi-8, a transport helicopter that carried Egyptian commandos on their way to attack on the Bir Gifgafa Airfield in the Sinai Peninsula.

[1] As the Chief of Staff he sought to stop the development of the IAI Lavi fighter aircraft because of the unbearable financial burden it imposed on the air Force and the IDF as a whole.

During the "Blue and Brown" operation (8–9 December 1988) - the raid on the headquarters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command of Ahmad Jibril, in Nuema village, about 10 km south of Beirut, Goren, as the Chief of Staff of the IAF, commanded the heroic rescue of four Golani soldiers, which were detached from the main force and missed their evacuation.

In 2011 he published "Vertigo", a thriller about the experiences and traumas of the Israeli Air Force's pilots during the battles of the Yom Kippur War, as well as their implications on their civil lives some 30 years later.