Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (29 September 1813 – 30 October 1891) was an English writer and scholar.

For his services to textual criticism and the understanding of biblical manuscripts, he was granted a Civil list pension in 1872.

Scrivener compared the Textus Receptus with the editions of Stephanus (1550), Theodore Beza (1565), and Elzevier (1633) and enumerated all the differences.

Scrivener doubted the authenticity of texts like Matthew 16:2b–3, Christ's agony at Gethsemane, John 5:3.4, and the Pericope Adulterae.

The Cambridge Paragraph Bible, published in 1873, was his magnum opus, becoming the basis for most modern printings of the KJV in England.