Daniel Humphrey, or simply known as Dan Humphrey, is a main character in the best selling Gossip Girl book series. He is portrayed by Penn Badgley in the tv series.

Daniel Humphrey is the son of the scruffy Rufus Humphrey, and is the older sibling of Jenny Humphrey. His absent mother, who ran off with a European aristocrat, returns to support Dan when she hears of his sexual confusion. Dan and his family live on the liberal cultured and artistic Upper West Side, the alternative of the old moneyed and conservative Upper East Side. He attends the Riverside Preparatory School for Boys, where wealthy playboy Chuck Bass attends, on the West Side as a scholarship student. At the end of the series, he matriculates to Evergreen State College in Washington. He is very thin and sensitive who loves to write poetry, and one of his poems, "Sluts", was featured in The New York Observer. He revealed his favorite word is "death" and drinks copious amounts of coffee. He over analyses and is easily frustrated. Dan is very close and protective of little sister Jenny, who attends an exclusive private school on a scholarship also, called the Constance Billard School for Girls, on the East Side.

He had a long time crush on Serena van der Woodsen, and briefly dates her beginning in the first book. Serena helped Dan save Jenny from Chuck when he tried to seduce her in a girls ' bathroom stall at Blair Waldorf's Kiss on the Lips party. They dated for a while, and eventually broke up. He embarked on a relationship with budding film maker Vanessa Abrams, who has had a crush on Dan for a while. Unfortunately for Vanessa, Dan cheats on her a with a girl he met in a yoga class. To make matters worse, Vanessa moved into Dan's West Side apartment into Jenny's bedroom, when she left to travel Europe with her mother. In the second to last book, he find himself in a same-sex situation, kissing his geeky friend Greg. Dan begins to think he might have been gay all along, or at least bisexual. In the final book, Greg and Dan date. Dan thinks Greg isn't right for him, and goes to tell him, except Greg beats him to the punch, leaving Dan for Chuck Bass. At the end of the book, he concludes he is gay.

Dan is the son of rocker Rufus Humphrey, and is the older sibling of Jenny Humphrey. Dan is a poet and attends the St. Jude's School for boys with enemy Chuck Bass. He has longed for Serena van der Woodsen since a party when they were fifteen, and she was the only person who was nice to him. He has somewhat of a disgust for Serena's best friend, Blair Waldorf; though, he seems to have warmed up to her given their recent heart-to-heart in Bad News Blair. Dan and his family reside in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and he wishes to attend Dartmouth College.