Kampta Karran (died June 5, 2013) was a Guyanese sociologist and author. Karran had a distinguished record in the service of local publishing in Guyana, where he edited and published the journal Offerings and was active in working towards a resolution to Guyana's ethnic conflicts. He lectured at the University of Birmingham from 1999 to 2002, before joining the University of Warwick Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations as the Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellow in 2002. He also lectured at the University of Guyana.
Karran died at Skeldon Hospital in Guyana on June 5, 2013. He was survived by his wife and four children.[1]