Bruce Sigmund Fetter (8 June 1938 – 20 April 2017) was an American academic historian, social scientist, and Africanist.
His particular research interests lay in the field of urban history, historical demography, and subsequently public health.
He gained a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 dealing with the urban history of Lubumbashi (formerly Elisabethville) under Belgian colonial rule entitled "Elisabethville and Lubumbashi: The Segmented Growth of a Colonial City, 1910–1945".
His doctoral thesis was published as The Creation of Elisabethville, 1910–1940 (1976) and has been described as "the first book-length study of a colonial African city".
He co-edited Demography from Scanty Evidence: Central Africa in the Colonial Era (1990) which received enthusiastic reviews.