Sam A. Scribner (August 18, 1859 – July 8, 1941) was an American circus and burlesque impresario of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He operated the Columbia Amusement Company, presenting forty or more family-entertainment burlesque shows simultaneously in theaters throughout the Northeast and Midwest of the United States.

Serving as a tuba player in the village band, Scribner spent his whole life in show business.

[4] Each week each show would travel from one theater to the next, rotating around the American Northeast and Midwest like forty spokes on a great wheel.

On January 3, 1910, the company opened its flagship theater in Times Square, at the north-east corner of Seventh Avenue and 47th Street.