| Alan D. Taylor | |
| Birth Date: | 27 October 1947[1] |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Union College |
| Alma Mater: | Dartmouth College |
| Doctoral Advisor: | James Earl Baumgartner |
| Known For: | Brams–Taylor procedure |
Alan Dana Taylor (born October 27, 1947) is an American mathematician who, with Steven Brams, solved the problem of envy-free cake-cutting for an arbitrary number of people with the Brams–Taylor procedure.
Taylor received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Dartmouth College.
He was the Marie Louise Bailey professor of mathematics at Union College, in Schenectady, New York.
He retired from the college in 2022.