Anthony Glenn Cross, FBA (born 1936) is a retired British academic and scholar of modern Russian history.
Cross was born in 1936 and educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 1960.
He then spent a year at Harvard University, where he completed the AM degree, before returning to Trinity Hall to carry out doctoral studies.
Four years later he moved back to Cambridge as Professor of Slavonic Studies and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College.
From 1964 onwards he organized a similar course at UEA (the Intensive Russian Vacation Course - IRVC) for three weeks in July-August each year which enjoyed great success, attracting large numbers of students from all over the world.