| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Gavin Short | |
| Constituency Am: | Stanley |
| Assembly: | Falkland Islands Legislative |
| Term Start: | 4 November 2021 |
| Predecessor: | Barry Elsby |
| Term Start1: | 5 November 2009 |
| Term End1: | 9 November 2017 |
| Predecessor1: | Mike Summers |
| Successor1: | Leona Vidal Roberts |
| Term Start2: | 12 October 1989 |
| Term End2: | 14 October 1993 |
| Predecessor2: | Norma Edwards |
| Successor2: | Sharon Halford |
| Birth Place: | Falkland Islands |
| Party: | Nonpartisan |
| Spouse: | N/A |
Gavin Phillip Short (born 1962) is a Falkland Islands politician who has been a member of the Legislative Assembly for the Stanley constituency since 2021. He was previously a Member of the Legislative Council from 1989 to 1993 and again from 2009 to 2017.[1]
Short works for Cable & Wireless and is the Chairman of the General Employees' Union. He is a former member of the Falkland Islands Defence Force and a volunteer fireman.[1]
In November 2009, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for Stanley, and in June 2010 he represented the Falklands at the annual meeting of the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation in New York City.[2]
Short won re-election in 2013, but lost his seat at the 2017 general election. In 2018 he joined the Falkland Islands Radio Service as a Senior News Correspondent.[3] He returned to the assembly at the next election.[4]
In June 2023, Short and fellow assembly member John Birmingham addressed the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization to speak about the dispute over the islands’ sovereignty.[5]