Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 — August 28, 1978) was a notable historian of the American Civil War.

Catton was born in Petoskey, Michigan. He began his writing career freelancing for the Cleveland News in Cleveland, Ohio. Catton won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox, his study of the final campaign of the American Civil War in Virginia, from the Battle of the Wilderness to the April 1865 surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.