Ronald Freedman (1917–2007) was an international demographer and founder of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.

He received a BA in history and economics from the University of Michigan in 1939, and a master's degree in sociology in 1940.

At the University of Chicago he completed prelims for his PhD in sociology before joining the U.S. Army in 1942 to serve in the Air Corps Weather Service.

He was also a Laureate of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).

[3][4] Freedman died on November 21, 2007, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the age of 90.