Neal Elwood Lambert (born 1934) is an emeritus professor of English and American Studies at Brigham Young University (BYU).
His most notable work was A Believing People: Literature of Latter-day Saints an anthology co-edited with Richard Cracroft.
From 1987 until 1990 Lambert was president of the North Carolina Raleigh Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
During his tenure BYU faced debates over the extent of dissent allowed by faculty from LDS teachings, many of white focused on members of the English Department.
Lambert also was involved in editing and republishing the works of Western fiction by such authors as Edward Abbey.