Valerian Stan (born 1955) is a Romanian publicist, civic and human rights activist, dignitary, lawyer, and military officer.

In 1977, Stan graduated the Nicolae Bălcescu Military School of active infantry officers from Sibiu.

Subsequently, until the end of 1989, he held administrative positions in the fields of logistics and labor protection, including within military construction units in the "national economy".

After the Romanian Revolution of December 1989, he was a publicist, one of the leaders of the Civic Alliance, and he worked in human rights and think-tank organizations (APADOR-CH, CRJ, IPP, etc.).

The investigations he coordinated in this position uncovered several irregularities of some high officials affiliated to the governmental coalition (the questionable selling of part of the navy's property, the Flota-Fleet dossier, "Petroklav"/Traian Băsescu and others, the occupancy or the illegal appropriation of several residences from the state's special locative fund, etc.)