Norton H. Mezvinsky (November 29, 1932 – September 16, 2022) was an American historian, professor, and author.

He was a Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, Central Connecticut State University, and was the president of the International Council for Middle East Studies, an academic think tank in Washington, D. C.[1][2] He wrote numerous published books, articles, and book reviews that deal with various aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Zionism.

Norton Mezvinsky was from a well-known Iowa family long involved in Jewish politics.

His father, Abe, was for decades a grocer and leading businessman in Ames, Iowa, and was famous for his philanthropy.

[6] There was apparently a second marriage because two issues of the Directory of Scholars in the Humanities, which, for those years, was available as a print edition only, list him as married well after the divorce from Lauro.