Paul G. Halpern (born 27 January 1937) is a retired American educator, naval historian and documentary editor.
"Those who have edited a similar number are a distinguished group: Sir Julian Corbett, Michael Oppenheim, Professor David Syrett, and J. R. Tanner, while only Sir John Knox Laughton (with nine volumes) and the Admiralty Librarian David Bonner-Smith (with eight volumes) have outstripped him.
Paul Halpern graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Virginia in 1958.
On leaving military service, Halpern earned a Master of Arts degree in history at Harvard University in 1961 and, in 1966, a Ph.D. with a two-volume thesis, "The Mediterranean naval situation, 1912-1914".
In the academic year 1986–87, he served as visiting professor of strategy at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.