Dario Gradi MBE is a football manager and former player, currently manager and technical director of Crewe Alexandra, having relinquished first team coaching responsibilities to Steve Holland in 2007. Gradi is currently the longest serving manager of a league club in England, having been at Crewe for over 24 years.

Over his career Gradi has become one of English football's most respected managers and coaches. Born to an Italian father and an English mother, he moved to London when his mother returned after the Second World War.