Gwynne Blakemore Evans (31 March 1912 – 23 December 2005) was an American scholar of Elizabethan literature best known for editing the Riverside Shakespeare edition in 1974.
He then earned a master's degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1936.
From 1942 to 1945, Evans served in the United States Army Signal Corps Intelligence during World War II at Bletchley Park in England, a centre of Allied spying and decoding and became a sergeant.
Evan's first book was The Plays and Poems of William Cartwright (1951), an edition of the obscure poet and playwright William Cartwright.
Evans died on December 23, 2005, aged 93 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.