Perry Anderson (born 1940) is a leading Marxist intellectual. He is Professor of History and Sociology at UCLA.

He was a formative influence on the New Left. He bore the brunt of the disapproval of E. P. Thompson in the latter's The Poverty of Theory, in a controversy of the 1960s over the revised Marxism of Louis Althusser, and the use of history and theory in the politics of the Left.

He is the author of numerous books, including The Origins of Postmodernity (1998) and In the Tracks of Historical Materialism (1985)

He is currently the editor of New Left Review, a Marxist journal.