Albert Broadbent FSS FRHS (17 February 1867 – 21 January 1912) was an English activist, writer, editor, publisher, lecturer, and restaurateur.

[3] Broadbent originally intended to pursue a commercial career, before joining the staff of the Vegetarian Society in 1894 and becoming Secretary the following year.

In 1903, J. P. Sandlands wrote a rebuttal to Broadbent's book entitled Science in the Daily Meal Criticised, or Plasmon Confounded.

[7] Broadbent started vegetarian restaurants in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Leicester, with the intention of bettering the social position of women, by providing them the opportunity to earn a living wage.

[8] Broadbent later became a Bible Christian deacon and a lay preacher, serving in Congregational, Unitarian, and Labour Churches.