Henry Reed (28 December 1806 – 10 October 1880) was an Australian landowner, shipowner, merchant, philanthropist and evangelist.

Back in Tasmania by 1832, he plunged again into commerce, importing sugar from Mauritius, and sending his whaling ships to sea.

In 1863 he married Margaret Sayres Elizabeth Frith of Enniskillen, Ireland, an ardent church worker, by whom he had five children.

In April 1873, with his family and attendants, he sailed for Launceston where he bought and made Mount Pleasant the finest house in northern Tasmania and developed Wesley Dale.

In Launceston he bought Parr's Hotel in Wellington Street in order to replace it with a mission church, which was completed in 1885 after his death as the Henry Reed Memorial Christian Mission Church, as were the nearby Dunorlan Cottages to provide free housing for elderly indigent women.