Arnold J. N. M. Struycken (3 August 1900 – 30 September 1955) was a Dutch lawyer specialized in public international law, judge at the Mixed Courts of Egypt from 1936 to 1949, first Political Director of the Council of Europe from 1949 to 1954, Clerk of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1954 to 1955, with the rank of Deputy Secretary General. He played an important role at the beginning of the Council of Europe and for the creation of the European Convention of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights.