Ashley Dukes (29 May 1885 – 4 May 1959) was an English playwright, critic and theatre manager.

Edwin Joshua Dukes (1847-1930), of Kingsland, London, and his wife, the former Edith Mary Pope (1863-1898), of Sandford, Devon.

In Rambert's autobiography she says "after four days of personal meetings, and seven months of correspondence we were married on 3 March 1918.

The Ashley Dukes Company was an important interwar promoter of serious drama, and a training ground for actors.

[3] Dukes mounted the first theatrical performance of Murder in the Cathedral at the Mercury, driving down to Canterbury with T. S. Eliot to collect scenery and costumes.