Lodowick Carlell (1602–1675), also Carliell or Carlile, was a seventeenth-century English playwright, was active mainly during the Caroline era and the Commonwealth period.

In the latter post, he assisted the King in his frequent hunts, and throughout the 1630s he lived in the Park at Petersham Lodge.

[1] In this same period he accomplished most of his dramatic authorship – and his plays are notable for their forest scenes.

In this period he may have acted as a sort of undercover agent for the Royalist cause; he is thought to have sheltered Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle during this time.

In this view, Carlell is "one of the chief intermediaries between Beaumont and Fletcher, and Dryden and Settle".