Nakkheeran Gopal (born 10 April 1959) is a veteran journalist from Tamil Nadu, India.
He is the editor and publisher of Tamil political investigative journal Nakkheeran.
He shot to national fame in the 1990s when he took interviews with the then exclusive sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, who was hiding in the forests on the Tamil Nadu – Karnataka border, hoodwinking the police of the two states.