Daniel Defoe (/dᵻˈfoʊ/; kira-kira 1660 – 24 April 1731),[1] born Daniel Foe, merupakan seorang pedagang, penulis, wartawan, perisalah dan perisik Inggeris. Beliau paling terkenal kerana novelnya Robinson Crusoe, diterbitkan pada 1719, yang didakwa buku kedua paling banyak diterjemahkan selepas Alkitab.[2] Beliau dilihat sebagai salah satu penyokong terawal novel Inggeris, dan membantu mempopularkan bentuk ini di Britain dengan yang lain seperti Aphra Behn dan Samuel Richardson.[3] Defoe menulis banyak risalah politik dan selalu dalam masalah dengan pihak berkuasa, dan menghabiskan masa di penjara. Cendekiawan dan pemimpin politik memberi perhatian kepada idea baru dan kadangkala merujukinya.
Defoe merupakan seorang penulis yang prolifik dan serba boleh, menerbit lebih daripada tiga ratus karya works[4]—buku, risalah, dan jurnal—tentang berbagai-bagai perkara, termasuk politik, jenayah, agama, perkahwinan, psikologi, dan kuasa ghaib. Beliau juga pelopor kewartawanan perniagaan[5] dan kewartawanan ekonomi.[6]
^"Defoe", The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Margaret Drabble. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,1996), p. 265.
^Backscheider (2008/2004). "Even the most conservative lists of Defoe's works include 318 titles, and most Defoe scholars would credit him with at least 50 more."
^Margarett A. James, and Dorothy F. Tucker. "Daniel Defoe, Journalist." Business History Review 2.1 (1928): 2–6.
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