Frank M. Snowden Jr. (July 17, 1911 – February 18, 2007), was an American historian and classicist, best known for his study of black people in classical antiquity.

At Howard, he served as chair of the classics department for many years, and was dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1956 to 1968.

[citation needed] Snowden's books include Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience (1970), which received the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit of the American Philological Association, and Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks (1983).

He studied ancient art and literature, and he found mass evidence Africans were able to co-exist with the Greeks and Romans of the time.

His son, Frank M. Snowden III [de], is a professor of twentieth-century Italian history at Yale University.