Gordon Marsden (born 28 November 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Blackpool South from 1997 to 2019.

Before entering Parliament he had been a tutor for the Open University since 1994, as well as a public affairs adviser to English Heritage and, for twelve years, the editor of History Today and New Socialist magazine.

In 2003, he was made a Visiting Parliamentary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.

Marsden convened the first group of Labour MPs representing seaside and coastal towns.

In 2007, Marsden was asked to chair a Manifesto Group for the Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Seaside and Coastal Towns.