Amos Dresser (December 17, 1812 – February 4, 1904) was an abolitionist and pacifist minister, one of the founders of Olivet College. His name was well known in the Antebellum period because of a well-publicized incident: in 1835 he was arrested, tried, convicted, and publicly whipped in Nashville, Tennessee, for the crime of possession of abolitionist publications. The incident was widely reported and became well known. Dresser published an account of it, and spoke of it frequently.