Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino, MON marubucin Hausa ne na Najeriya, marubuci, mawallafi, ɗan jarida, mai shirya fim, darakta kuma ɗan wasa. Ya kwashe kusan shekaru talatin akan rubutun batutuwa daban-daban. Ya buga littatatafai na labari guda goma sha biyar. Shugaban kasa Goodluck Ebele Jonathan ne ya ba shi lambar yabo ta Memba na Order of the Niger (MON) a ranar 29/9/2014 An haifi Gidan Dabino a shekarar 1964 a Danbagina a karamar hukumar Dawakin Kudu a jihar Kano . Ya fara karatun boko daga mahaifinsa. Sannan ya tafi Zangon Barebari ya koyi Alqur'ani. Ya samu shaidar kammala karatun digiri a Mass Communication a Jami'ar Bayero Kano .[ana buƙatar hujja] Gidan Dabino, Shugaban Kamfanin Gidan Dabino International Nigeria Ltd, kamfani mai ba da shawara kan harkokin watsa labarai da tallace-tallace da ke a tsohuwar Kano tun 1990. Ya kasance mataimakin edita/rarrabawa mai gudanarwa na Zamani a Hausa Magazine a 1997. Ya kuma kasance edita kuma mawallafin Mumtaz a shekara ta 2000. A shekara ta 2004 ya zama Babban Editan Mujallar Hantsi a Karkashin Kungiyar Babban Ofishin Kano. Jaridar da ke da nufin haɓaka karatu da rubutu cikin yare na asali.