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Paul Dehn (1912 - 1976) was a British screenwriter. He began his show-business career in 1936, as a movie reviewer for several London newspapers. He later wrote plays, operettas, and musicals for the stage. Dehn's first screenplay, for Seven Days to Noon (1951), garnered him an Oscar. He later wrote everything from James Bond films to entries in the Planet of the Apes series, and also was a lyricist for several film musicals.

Through the 1960s Dehn concentrated on several superior espionage films, notably Goldfinger (1964), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), and The Deadly Affair (1967). For The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Dehn and co-writer Guy Trosper received an Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.

He received a second Academy Award nomination in 1974 for his adapted screenplay of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.

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