Ashbel Green (July 6, 1762 – May 19, 1848) was an American Presbyterian minister and academic.

He served as a sergeant in the New Jersey militia during the American Revolutionary War, and went on to study with John Witherspoon and graduate as valedictorian from the College of New Jersey, known since 1896 as Princeton University, in 1783.

[5] He emancipated his family's slave Betsey Stockton in 1817, taught her and recommended her as a missionary to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, making her the first single female overseas missionary.

After his first wife died in January 1807, he married Christina Anderson in October 1809.

[7] The Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia has a collection of Ashbel Green's original papers,[8] including sermons and correspondence.