Milan Machovec (23 August 1925 – 15 January 2003) was a Czech philosopher. He lectured at the Charles University in Prague in 1950–1970, in the first half of the Czechoslovak communist era. Machovec is best known for hosting Christian-Marxist dialogue among major Czech- and German-speaking thinkers in the 1960s. He was forced out of the university for his involvement in the Prague Spring of 1968 and became a dissident underground intellectual for the second half of the communist era. In 1990, Machovec returned to his academic position for life and published his previously banned Jesus for Mode