Tibor Szamuely (1925–1972) was a Hungarian-born historian and polemicist. He left Hungary in 1963 and taught at the Kwame Nkrumah Institute of Economic and Political Sciences (later Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute) in Winneba, Ghana. In 1964, he settled in Britain with his family.
During his time in England, he taught at the University of Reading and contributed frequently to The Spectator, Encounter, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. He was a close friend of Robert Conquest and Kingsley Amis and was a regular attendee of the lunches at Bertorelli restaurant. He is the author of The Russian Tradition.
He is the father of George Szamuely, a paleoconservative journalist.