Dylan Moran (born 3 November 1971) is a BAFTA and Perrier Award-winning Irish comedian, actor and writer. He is most famous for his stand up comedy, the television sitcom Black Books which he co-wrote and starred in, and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run. Moran is a regular performer at national and international comedy festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Kilkenny Comedy Festival.

Moran was born in Navan, County Meath, Ireland. He attended St. Patrick's Classical School (with fellow comic Tommy Tiernan) and left at age 16 with no qualifications and apparently spent four jobless years "drinking and writing bad poetry". He worked as a florist for a week but hated it. He also attended Rannafast Gaeltacht in 1986 staying in Teach Nora Frank along with several other classmates and pupils from other Irish schools.

At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe he has won the 'So You Think You're Funny? Award' in 1993, and the Perrier Award in 1996, but later dismissed the latter as "a load of media rubbish," stating Bill Bailey deserved it more.

A popular poll commissioned by Channel 4 ranked him the 17th Greatest Comedy Stand-up.

Moran was declared "the greatest comedian, living or dead" by major European newspaper, Le Monde in July 2007.

He has also twice won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Situation Comedy, both for Black Books.

Dylan married his wife Elaine on 4 September 1997 in London. They have two children, Siobhan and Simon, who frequently feature in his stand-up shows. The family currently resides in Edinburgh.