Raymond Hide CBE FRS (17 May 1929 – 6 September 2016) was a British physicist, who was a professor of physics at the University of Oxford and, since 2000, senior research investigator at Imperial College, London.

Hide was educated at Percy Jackson Grammar School, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire[3] and the University of Manchester, where he obtained a first-class degree in physics in 1950.

[4] He was director of the Robert Hooke Institute and a visiting professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford from 1990 to 1992.

His work on the hydrodynamics and MHD of spinning fluids defined flow phenomena in atmospheres and oceans and the interiors of planetary bodies.

He served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1974 to 1976 and was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, having been appointed by Pope John Paul II in 1996.