Emyr Estyn Evans CBE (29 May 1905 – 12 August 1989) was a Welsh geographer and archaeologist, whose primary field of interest was the Irish neolithic.

Illness forced him to turn down a post at Oxford University and worked instead for geographer and zoologist H. J. Fleure, preparing contributions for the 14th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.

[2] After recovering from tuberculosis, he accepted a post in 1928 as lecturer in geography at Queen's University, Belfast, where he was responsible for establishing a new department, the Institute of Irish Studies.

In 1931 he was awarded an MA (Wales) for a thesis entitled A Study of the Origins and Distributions of some Late Bronze Age Industries in Western Europe.

A further book, Ireland and the Atlantic Heritage: Selected Writings (1996), in which Gwyneth Evans wrote 'A Biographical Memoir' of her late husband, was published after his death.