Alexander Radcliffe (c. 1653 – in or before 1696) was an English poet.
[1] He was probably born in the Southern Netherlands about 1653, the only son and heir of the exiled royalist Alexander Radcliffe (1633–1682), later of Hampstead, Middlesex.
[1] He was admitted at Gray's Inn on 12 November 1669.
[2] He was not called to the bar, but seems to have deserted the legal profession for the army, in which he had attained the rank of captain by 1696.
[3] He was a disciple of the Earl of Rochester in verse, and, according to George Thorn-Drury, "rivalled his master in ribaldry".