Sheppard Sunderland Frere, CBE, FSA, FBA (23 August 1916 – 26 February 2015) was a British historian and archaeologist who studied the Roman Empire.

For three seasons early in the 1970s, he was in charge of the archaeological summer school that excavated the Roman fort at Strageath, near Crieff, in Perthshire.

He was married in 1961 to Janet, daughter of Edward Graham Hoare, and had two children, Sarah Barbara Ruth (born 1962) and Bartle Henry David Hoare (born 1963).

He was a 4th cousin of paleontologist Mary Leakey[3] and shared with her the same descent from the pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age John Frere.

Frere was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1971, and became a CBE in 1976.