Paul Stanley (1922, Hartford, Connecticut - 2002) was an American television director.

Stanley worked in television from the early 1950s until the mid-1980s. His credits encompass all genres, extending to more than fifty prime time television series of the period, from Have Gun – Will Travel in 1957 to Charlie's Angels in the late 1970s, to MacGyver in 1985.

Stanley also received producer credit on a handful of TV series episodes in the 1960s and 1970s.