Bryan Danielson (born May 22, 1981) is an American (United States) professional wrestler (Professional wrestling). He is also known by the ring name Daniel Bryan, from his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and by his ring name, and later nickname, the American Dragon.

In professional wrestling, Danielson is a three-time world champion (World Heavyweight Championship (professional wrestling)), having won the ROH World Championship in Ring of Honor (ROH) once and the PWG World Championship in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) twice. He has also held the FIP Heavyweight Championship once in Full Impact Pro and the wXw World Heavyweight Championship once in Westside Xtreme Wrestling. In addition, Danielson has also won the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship once in Pro Wrestling Noah and is officially recognized as the last ROH Pure Champion (ROH Pure Championship), as he unified the Pure title with the ROH World title in 2006. He also won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in New Japan Pro Wrestling with Curry Man (Christopher Daniels).

Until 2009, Danielson primarily competed on the independent circuit. ROH was generally regarded as his home promotion, but he also worked in FIP, PWG, and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). He has also worked internationally, most notably in Pro Wrestling Noah through ROHs involvement in the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance, a global organization of cooperative promotions that allow their competitors to travel abroad to other companies. He also competed in a handful of matches in WWE before signing an actual contract with the company in 2009. In June 2010, shortly after the end of the first season of the WWE NXT show which Danielson participated in, WWE announced that he had been released from his contract.