Annie Nathan Meyer (February 19, 1867 – September 23, 1951) was an American author, anti-suffragist, and promoter of higher education for women who founded Barnard College.

The Nathans are one of America's colonial-era Sephardic families living in Manhattan who had fled the religious restrictions in their native Spain and Portugal during the fifteenth century.

Her great-grandfather was Gershom Seixas, the rabbi leading a prominent synagogue in colonial Manhattan who also suffered repression when he refused to follow the religious dictates of the British.

Since she was withheld from public school by her mother's request, Meyer was self-educated and claimed to have read all of the works of Charles Dickens by the age of seven.

A de facto Columbia graduate,[2] she discontinued her participation there when on February 15, 1887, at the age of twenty, she married her second cousin, Alfred Meyer,[1] a prominent physician.

Virginia Gildersleeve, Barnard's visionary and long-serving dean, placed a premium on hiring the best professors from Columbia for additional lectures west of Broadway.

Meyer's Robert Annys: A Poor Priest (1901) is set in Medieval England and features John Ball as a character.