Carol Dunlop (1946–1982) was a writer, translator, activist, and photographer. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Daniel and Jean (Ayers) Dunlop, she married writer Francois Hebert, with whom she had one son, Stephane (b. 1968). The couple settled in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the 1970s Hebert and Dunlop divorced, and Dunlop eventually moved to Paris.
In the late 1970s, Dunlop met and later married writer and activist Julio Cortázar. She accompanied Cortazar to numerous destinations, and sometimes traveled without Cortazar. Among places she visited in the course of her political activism were Nicaragua and Poland, at the latter of which she participated in a congress of solidarity with Chile. She died two years before Cortázar and is buried in the Cimetičre de Montparnasse.