Wilfred De'Ath (28 July 1937 – 19 February 2020) was a British author and journalist. He worked for the BBC in the 1960s and 1970s and writes a column in "The Oldie". De'Ath was born to a German mother and English father and grew up in Elstree, Hertfordshire, England. He studied at the University of Oxford. During the 1990s, De'ath served prison sentences for theft.