Roland Carl Backhouse (born 18 August 1948) is a British computer scientist and mathematician.

[1][2] Backhouse was born and raised in the Thorntree district of Middlesbrough, an industrial town in the north-east of England.

In 1959, he won a place at the then all-male Acklam Hall Grammar School before going on to Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1966.

His research interests lie in the mathematics of program construction and algorithmic problem solving.

Together with Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut (1953—1994), he began the biennial series of conferences on the Mathematics of Program Construction, the first of which was held in 1989.