Alan Warwick Palmer (born 1926) is a British author of historical and biographical books.
Palmer was educated at Bancroft's School, Woodford Green, London, and Oriel College, Oxford. He spent 19 years as senior history teacher at Highgate School before becoming a full-time writer and researcher. His late wife, Veronica Palmer collaborated on several of his books.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980.