Ronald William Brunskill OBE (3 January 1929 – 9 October 2015) was an English academic who was Reader in Architecture at the University of Manchester.
He was born in Lowton and attended Bury High School, before studying architecture under Reginald Cordingley at the University of Manchester.
After a two-year stint with the British Army, Brunskill was appointed to a London County Council commission of architects.
He left that position to teach at his alma mater, then spent a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Commonwealth Fund fellow.
He joined Williams Deacon's Bank in 1957, and oversaw the maintenance of 250 branch offices, designing twenty new buildings.