Ford Thompson Dabney (March 15, 1883, Washington, D.C. - June 21, 1958, Manhattan) was an American ragtime pianist, composer, songwriter, and an acclaimed director of bands and orchestras for musical theater, revues, vaudeville, and early recordings; and, for about 2 years in Washington, from 1910 to 1912, he was a pioneering film and vaudeville theater entrepreneur.