Damjan Prelovšek (born 18 February 1945 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian art historian, an expert on the architect Jože Plečnik. He was the Slovenian ambassador in Prague. From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, he competed as Yugoslav slalom canoeist. He finished 17th in the C-1 event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.