Dawn Primarolo (born 2 May 1954 in London) is a British Labour Member of Parliament representing Bristol South. Since 29 June 2007 she has been the Minister of State for Public Health at the Department of Health. Between 1999 and 2007 she was Paymaster General, after being Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1997 to 1999.

Primarolo was educated at Thomas Bennett comprehensive school in Crawley, Bristol Polytechnic and Bristol University, gaining a B.A. (Hons) degree in Social Science. She joined the Labour Party in 1973 and was first elected to Parliament at the 1987 general election, after her constituency party de-selected the sitting MP Michael Cocks.

At the time of her election, she was regarded as a hard left-winger and is still often referred to by the media as "Red Dawn", but she is now a New Labour loyalist and "absolutely loyal to New Labour" , leading Andrew Roth of The Guardian newspaper to say she has "changed from 'Red Dawn' to 'Rosy Pink'" ; as part of this change, she has moved from support of the CND, the rise of which originally encouraged her into politics, to voting for the renewal of Britain's Trident nuclear defence . She is a former member of Avon County Council.