Kanda Takahira (神田 孝平, 31 October 1830 – 5 July 1898) was a scholar and statesman in Meiji period Japan. He often used the pen-name Kanda Kōhei. Kanda was born in the Fuwa District of Mino Province, (present-day Gifu Prefecture). He studied rangaku and became a teacher at the Tokugawa bakufu's Bansho Shirabesho institute for researching western science and technology. His translation of William Ellis's Outlines of Social Economy in 1867 is regarded as Japan's earliest study of western economics.