Pran Chopra (January 1921 – 22 December 2013) was an Indian journalist, political analyst and newspaper editor. Chopra was born in 1921 in Lahore, British India. He began his career as a journalist in 1941, with the Civil and Military Gazette, and in the mid-1940s was a war correspondent for All India Radio. From the late 1990s, he was a freelance journalist and writer, who wrote, edited or contributed to over a dozen books on Indian and South Asian politics and democracy. He died on 22 December 2013, aged 92, after a short illness.