Daniel Anthony Binchy (1899–1989) was a scholar of Irish linguistics and Early Irish law. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College (1910-16), University College Dublin (UCD), and the King's Inns (1917-20), after which he was called to the bar. He also studied at the universities of Munich, Berlin, and Paris. From 1919-20 he was Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society of UCD. His activities shortly after the formation of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies are affectionately satirized in Brian O'Nolan's poem Binchy and Bergin and Best, originally printed in the Cruiskeen Lawn column in the Irish Times and now included in The Best of Myles. He was a close friend of Frank O'Connor.