Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE (Liverpool, November 21, 1932 - July 2, 2010) was an English novelist.

She is the author of eighteen novels, two travel books, two essays, two volumes of stories and five plays for theater and television. She was nominated five times for the Booker Prize, and in 2011 she was awarded the posthumous prize for her literary work. In 2008 The Times included her in the list of "The 50 Most Important Writers Since 1945". The Guardian called it "a national treasure."