Branko Despot (born July 6, 1942, Zagreb) is Croatian philosopher. He is the son of , a prominent economic and cultural historian. After finishing gymnasium in Zagreb in 1961, he graduated in philosophy and Ancient Greek in 1965 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, where he also received his PhD in 1975 with a thesis on the philosophy of Vladimir Dvorniković. He worked as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy since 1968, and since 1971 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, at first as an assistant, as a docent (1979–84) and then as a professor at the Chair of History of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy. He is a member of the Croatian Writers' Association and PEN International.