Claudius Herrick (February 21, 1775 – May 26, 1831) was an American educator and minister.
Herrick graduated from Yale College in 1798 and became the second head of Deerfield Academy.
He was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational Church, becoming a pastor in Woodbridge, Connecticut in 1802.
He moved to New Haven, Connecticut and in 1808 started a school for young women there.
Three Episcopal bishops and a Connecticut governor, Roger Sherman Baldwin, were married to former students of the school.