Anthony Ledwith CBE FRS (4 August 1933 – 5 January 2015) was a British chemist.

He was, with local help, able to go to London to take practical and written exams of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, which lasted a week.

Ledwith joined C. E. H. Bawn’s group to study for his PhD at the University of Liverpool.

After retirement from Pilkington in 1996, he returned to academia as Professor and Head of the Chemistry Department at the University of Sheffield.

They had three daughters and a son: Joanne (1961), Stephanie Clare (1963), Katherine Elizabeth (1964) and James Anthony (1969).