Norman Hampson (8 April 1922 – 8 July 2011) was an English historian, Professor of History at the University of York from 1974 to 1989.
He was born in Leyland, Lancashire, the son of Frank Hampson, a clerk, and his wife Jane Fazackerley.
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and matriculated at University College, Oxford in 1940, to read modern history.
When his head of department urged him to drop the French Revolution and take up teaching of the Renaissance, he decided to leave and moved to the University of Newcastle.
He was one of a group of British historians, with Alfred Cobban and Richard Cobb, who challenged previous scholarship regarding the Revolution.