Otto Pierre Nicolas Berkelbach van der Sprenkel (1906 Bussum – 1978 Canberra) was a Dutch bibliographer, political scientist, and historian of China.
[citation needed] Born in the Netherlands, van der Sprenkel was raised in the UK and earned First-Class Honours at the London School of Economics.
He held academic positions at the University of Toronto and SOAS.
He experienced the Chinese Communist Revolution, an experience that contributed to the book he co-authored (with Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker and Robert Guillain) New China, Three Views (1950).
His attempt at compiling a comprehensive bibliography of Chinese history in Western languages was incomplete at his death, though held in manuscript form at the National Library of Australia, to which he also donated or bequeathed numerous rare books.