Prabhat Nalini Das (19 December 1927 – 14 November 2018) was a leading public intellectual and academic from India. She served as a professor of English and head of the English Department at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University; Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Utkal University and Ranchi University. She was the very first Director/Dean of the Humanities Division at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Founder-Professor and Head of the Department of English at Utkal University for almost nineteen years, and Chairman of Utkal University's Post Graduate Council; and the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of North Eastern Hill University, a Central University established by an act of the Parliament of India, with independent charge of its Kohima, Nagaland campus.