Michael Madhusudan Dutt was a Bengali poet and playwright.

Michael Madhusudan Dutt, or Michael Madhusudan Dutta (About this sound Maikel Modhushudôn Dôtto 25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873 was a popular 19th-century Bengali poet and dramatist. He was born in Sagordari, a village in Keshabpur Upazila, Jessore District of Undivided Bengal (now Bangladesh). His father was Rajnarayan Dutt, an eminent lawyer, and his mother was Jahnabi Devi. He was a pioneer of Bengali drama. His famous work Meghnad Bodh Kavya, is a tragic epic. It consists of nine cantos and is exceptional in Bengali literature both in terms of style and content. He also wrote poems about the sorrows and afflictions of love as spoken by women.