Andrew Charles Harter (born 5 April 1961 in Yorkshire, England) is a British computer scientist, best known as the founder of RealVNC, where he was CEO until March 2018.

His doctoral thesis,[2] supervised by Andy Hopper, was judged the best UK Computer Science dissertation of 1990.

[2] Harter is probably best known for Virtual Network Computing (VNC), a ubiquitous remote access technology he developed in the mid 90s.

[11] In 2014 he was appointed Chair of the Cambridge Network[12] and in 2015 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Anglia Ruskin University[13] and also became a trustee of The Centre for Computing History.

[14] Harter was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to engineering.