Petar Šegedin (8 July 1909 – 1 September 1998) was a Croatian writer. Šegedin was born in Žrnovo, on the island of Korčula. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He worked as a professor and diplomat, and later as a professional writer. In the 1970s he was blacklisted due to his criticism of the communist authorities, and lived for a while in a self-imposed exile in Germany.