Rodney Hilton was an English Marxist historian of the late medieval period. He was born in Manchester in 1916 and studied at Balliol College Oxford Universtity before before commencing a 36-year teaching career at the University of Birmingham. He died in 2002.

His works include:

• The Revolt of 1381 (1950) With H. Fagan
• The English Peasantry in the Later Middle Ages (1975)
• The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism (1976)
• Bond Men Made Free(1977)