Bonamy Dobrée (2 February 1891 – 3 September 1974), British academic, was Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds from 1936 to 1955.
In 1920 he took advantage of a tuition discount offered to veterans, taking his BA from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1921 and his MA in 1924.
In 1925 he was appointed lecturer in London, and in 1926 Professor of English at the Egyptian University, Cairo, where he remained until 1929.
In 1936 he was appointed Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, where he remained until his retirement.
His first book was Restoration Comedy (1925); his largest, published 35 years later, was on the Early Eighteenth Century in the Oxford History of English Literature.