Boris Nikolaevich Mironov (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Миро́нов) (born September 21, 1942) is a Soviet and Russian historian, cliometrist, specialist in the field of historical sociology, social, economic and demographic history of Russia, anthropometric history and research methodology.

Worked at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1970–2016) and at Herzen University (1978–1981).

Doctor of Historical Sciences (1983), Professor of St. Petersburg State University (1990–1993 and from 2000 to the present).

Taught at universities in Canada, the United States, France, Germany and Japan (1993–2003).

Author of over 390 works [ru], of which over a hundred articles have been published in leading international journals in English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and other languages.