Charles Franklin Dunbar

Charles Franklin Dunbar (1830 – 1900) was an Americaneconomist. He held the first chair in Political Economy at Harvard University in 1871.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1851. From 1885 to 1898 he served as a trustee and later as president of the Board of Trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy; Dunbar Hall, a dormitory on that school's campus, was named after him in 1901, as was its replacement after it was destroyed by fire in 1907.

• Dunbar, Charles Franklin (1904). Economic essays. New York: Macmillan.
• Dunbar, Charles Franklin (1917). Theory and history of banking. New York and London: Putnam's sons.