David Lan (born 1958, South Africa) is an English playwright.

• Bird Child (1974)
• Painting A Wall (1974)
• Homage To Bean Soup (1975)
• Paradise (1975)
• Not In Norwich (1977)
• The Winter Dancers (1977)
• Red Earth (1978)
• Sergeant Ola And His Followers (1979)
• Flight (1986)
• A Mouthful of Birds, with Caryl Churchill (1986)
• Ghetto (1989)
• Desire (1990)
• Hippolytos (1991)
• The Ends Of The Earth (1996)
• La Lupa (The She-Wolf), translation of Giovanni Verga (2000)
• The Chain Play 2001
• The Cherry Orchard, translation of Anton Chekov (2001)