Jasper Godwin Ridley (1920 – 2004) was a British writer, known for historical biographies.

He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and the Sorbonne. He trained and practiced as a barrister, before starting to write.

Works

• The Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions (1942)
• The Law of the Carriage of Goods by Land, Sea and Air (1957)
• Nicholas Ridley (1957)
• Thomas Cranmer (1962)
• John Knox (1968)
• Lord Palmerston (1971)
• Garibaldi (1974)
• The Roundheads (1976)
• Napoleon III and Eugénie (1979)
• The History of England (1981)
• Statesman and the Fanatic: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas More (1982)
• Life and Times of Mary Tudor (1973)
• Henry VIII the Politics of Tyranny (1984)
• The Tudor Age (1988)
• The Love Letters of Henry VIII (1988) editor
• Elizabeth I: the Shrewdness of Virtue (1988)
• Maximilian & Juarez (1992)
• Tito (1994)
• A History of the Carpenters' Company (1995)
• Mussolini (1997)
• The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society (1999)
• The Houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha: A Royal History of England (2000) with John Clarke
• Bloody Mary's Martyrs: The Story of England’s Terror (2001)
• A Brief History of The Tudor Age (2002)
• Secret Societies (2004)