Daniel Michael Andrews (born 6 July 1972) is an Australian former politician who served as the 48th premier of Victoria from 2014 to 2023 and the leader of the Victorian Labor Party from 2010 to 2023. He was the member of the Legislative Assembly (MP) for the district of Mulgrave from 2002 to 2023. Andrews is the longest-serving Labor premier and the fourth-longest-serving premier in Victorian state history.

Andrews entered the Bracks Ministry in 2006, serving as the Minister for Consumer Affairs. The following year, he was later appointed Minister for Health in the Brumby Ministry until the defeat of the government at the 2010 election by Ted Baillieu. Whilst in opposition, Andrews was elected Leader of the Labor Party in Victoria, and became Leader of the Opposition.

After one term in opposition, Andrews led Labor to victory in the 2014 election. He was sworn in Premier in December of that year. He led his party to an increased majority of eight seats in the lower house during the 2018 election, and to a third landslide victory at the 2022 election again increasing the party's majority in the house. Significant historical events during Andrews's time as premier included the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Andrews has been described as "the dominant political figure of his generation in Victoria, with considerable influence nationally". Major accomplishments of his government included the Big Build infrastructure projects, rental law reforms, voluntary assisted dying, legalisation of medicinal cannabis, adoption reforms, sex work decriminalisation, first nations treaties, safe injection rooms, compensation reform for victims of institutionalised child-sex abuse, and the introduction of exclusion zones for protests outside abortion clinics. Issues raised during his leadership include the heavy handed response to the pandemic, where the lockdown of public housing towers occurred.

Andrews was born 6 July 1972 in Williamstown Hospital, in south-western Melbourne. His parents, Bob and Jan Andrews, were both bank workers who lived in and later owned a milk bar in Glenroy. Andrews has a younger sister, Cynthia. Both Andews and his sister were raised as devout Catholics and attended church every Sunday.

After an explosion in a neighbouring shop gutted the family business, Bob started working for Don Smallgoods as a delivery driver. In 1983, the family moved to Wangaratta in north-eastern Victoria, where Bob was offered a delivery round by Don and where Jan went back to work for a bank. In Wangaratta, Andrews was educated at the Marist Brothers' Galen Catholic College.

Andrews moved back to Melbourne in the 1990s to attend Monash University, where he was a resident of Mannix College. He supported his studies by selling hotdogs near a nightclub. While at university Andrews joined the Labor Party and became a part of the Socialist Left faction. Andrews graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics and classics in 1996. In 1995, Andrews became an electorate officer for federal Labor MP Alan Griffin. He worked at the party's head office from 1999 to 2002, initially as an organiser, and then as assistant state secretary.

Upon his election to parliament in the Legislative Assembly seat of Mulgrave at the 2002 election, Andrews was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Health in the Steve Bracks Labor government. Following the 2006 election, Andrews was appointed to the Cabinet, becoming Minister for Gaming, Minister for Consumer Affairs and Multicultural Affairs. In her biography on Andrews, Sumeyya Ilanbey writes that Labor figures have stated that during his time as Gaming Minister "Andrews' enduring relationship with influential businesspeople began".