Gregorio Fernandez Zaide (May 25, 1907 – October 31, 1986) was a Filipino historian, author, and politician from the town of Pagsanjan, Laguna, Philippines.

In his time, Zaide was the most traveled Filipino historian, with teaching and research stints at various universities and institutions in the Philippines and around the world.

"[7] In the same breath, however, these works are criticized as lacking in "the important qualifications and nuances to be made to telling the story of our past, such as the fact that histories unavoidably took sides, and that it was all too easy to be seduced into taking the wrong one.

"[7][8] In particular, Zaide has been criticized for portraying history in a way that put the Philippines' colonial experience under the Spanish and the Americans in an over-simplistically positive light.

One may not find Zaide’s writing style or viewpoint to one’s taste, but in his footnotes he gives the interested reader the leads to follow up on in the primary sources.

"Zaide was a prolific writer and historian writing about 67 books, which were adopted as textbooks for high schools and colleges.

Among his contributions to Philippine history are the following books:[10] Zaide was the first Asian to win the United Nations Study Award in 1957.