| Honorific-Prefix: | Sir |
| Daniel McVey | |
| Office1: | Director-General of the Department of Supply and Development |
| Term Start1: | 25 May 1939 |
| Term End1: | 29 August 1939 |
| Office2: | Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department |
| Term Start2: | 1 January 1940 |
| Term End2: | 10 June 1946 |
| Office3: | Director-General of the Department of Civil Aviation |
| Term Start3: | 17 February 1944 |
| Term End3: | 10 June 1946 |
| Birth Name: | Daniel McVey |
| Birth Date: | 24 November 1892 |
| Birth Place: | Carronshore, Stirlingshire, Scotland |
| Death Place: | East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Public servant |
| Nationality: |  Australian |
| Parents: | Daniel McVey, Jeanie Kay |
| Spouse: | Margaret Gardiner (Peggy) |
| Children: | 2 sons, 1 daughter |
| Education: | Falkirk High School, Scotland |
Sir Daniel McVey (24 November 189224 December 1972) was a senior Australian public servant. He was Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department from 1940 until December 1946.
Daniel McVey was born in Carronshore, Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 24 November 1892, to Daniel and Jeanie McVey.[1] He and his younger brothers Robert (Bob), Harry (Henry), George, Bill and sister Nessie moved to Australia in 1910 after their mother Jeanie died in childbirth and their father remarried.[1]
McVey joined the Commonwealth Public Service in the Postmaster-General's Department as a clerk in 1914.[2] He left the department to serve with the First Australian Imperial Force between 1915 and 1919 in the 45th Battery, attaining the position Lieutenant.
He was appointed Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, heading the Postmaster-General's Department, in January 1940. From February 1944, McVey had also held the post of Director-General of Civil Aviation, head of the Department of Civil Aviation, a position he was officially "on loan" to.[3]
McVey retired from the public service in June 1946.[1] After leaving the service, he joined private industry, working as chairman and managing director of Standard Telephones & Cables Pty Ltd between 1946 and 1949, and then going on to become managing director of Metal Manufactures Ltd and Austral Bronze Co. Pty Ltd from 1949 until 1962.[1]
McVey died on 24 December 1972 in East Melbourne and was cremated.[1]
In 1946, McVey was awarded the University of Melbourne Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement.[4]
McVey was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1950.[1]