| Dick Clausen | |
| Birth Date: | 1912 |
| Birth Place: | Vining, Iowa, U.S. |
| Death Date: | December 2000 (aged 88) |
| Death Place: | Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
| Player Sport1: | Football |
| Player Team2: | Iowa |
| Player Sport3: | Baseball |
| Player Years4: | c. 1935 |
| Player Team4: | Iowa |
| Player Positions: | End (football) First baseman (baseball) |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1938 |
| Coach Team2: | Clear Lake HS (IA) |
| Coach Years3: | 1939–1941 |
| Coach Team3: | Hampton HS (IA) |
| Coach Years4: | 1942–1947 |
| Coach Team4: | New Trier HS (IL) |
| Coach Years5: | 1948–1955 |
| Coach Team5: | Coe |
| Coach Years6: | 1956–1957 |
| Coach Team6: | New Mexico |
| Coach Sport8: | Basketball |
| Coach Years9: | 1938–1939 |
| Coach Team9: | Clear Lake HS (IA) |
| Admin Years1: | 1958–1972 |
| Admin Team1: | Arizona |
| Overall Record: | 43–36–5 (college football) |
| Championships: | 3 MWC (1950, 1952, 1955) |
Dick Clausen (1912 – December 2000) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Coe College from 1948 to 1955 and the University of New Mexico from 1956 to 1957, compiling a career college football record of 43–36–5. Clausen was also the athletic director at the University of Arizona from 1958 to 1972.
Born in Vining, Iowa, Clausen attended high school in Sabula, Iowa, graduating in 1928. At the University of Iowa, he played football as an end and baseball, as a first baseman.[1] Clausen died at in December 2000, at the age of 88, in Tucson, Arizona.[2]