Roger Levinge Dean, CBE (12 December 1913 – 7 January 1998) was an Australian politician and public servant.

Dean served in the Northern Territory with the 103rd Anti-Tank Regiment from 1942 to 1944 and was later stationed at Wewak, New Guinea, with the 8th Docks (Port) Operating Company, part of the Australian Army Transportation Corps.

[2] The committee unanimously recommended the federal government pay compensation to the Yirrkala over the expropriation of land for an alumina project on the Gove Peninsula.

[3] Dean spoke frequently in parliament on matters relating to Indigenous Australians and the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

As administrator he was credited with the establishment of a tourism body, reforms to pastoral leases, and the conferral of greater regulatory powers on the Northern Territory Land Board.

He also visited a number of remote Aboriginal communities and was responsible for a major renovation of Government House, Darwin.

[5] In December 1969, it was announced that Dean would retire as Northern Territory administrator in March 1970 and would instead be posted to the United States as Australia's consul-general in San Francisco.