Sir Ambrose Heal FSA RDI (3 September 1872 – 15 November 1959) was an English furniture designer and businessman in the first half of the 20th century.

[1] In 1913, on the death of his father, he was elected chairman of Heals, using this position to champion artistic design within furniture manufacture and marketing.

He established an art gallery at the Tottenham Court Road premises showing works by Picasso, Wyndham Lewis and Modigliani.

Artists such as Claud Lovat Fraser designed the company's posters, and its catalogues contained essays by influential art critics.

By most businessman he was regarded as a long hair chap with odd notions.... Today, when it has become possible to get well designed furniture in many shops, it is difficult to realise what a revolution Heal pioneered.

Apart from work interests, he collected London historical ephemera, mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries, including records of tradesmen, goldsmiths, calligraphers, signboards and furniture makers.

[7] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article by Alan Crawford describes this as "very wide of the mark" and accounts of his life and work as prone to hagiography, "but it showed what a powerful image he had created for his shop, and thus for himself".

[1] An English Heritage blue plaque commemorating Heal was placed at The Fives Court on Moss Lane in Pinner, North London, in 2013.