Gautam Bhadra () (Born: 1948) is a historian of South Asia and was a member of the erstwhile Subaltern Studies collective.He favoured bringing to light the lower sections of the Indian people till recently neglected by writing of history.
Bhadra was born in Kolkata in 1948. His original home is Uthali village in Satkhira district of Bangladesh. obtained education at Chetla Boys School, Presidency College (), thereafter from Jadavpur University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (). He started teaching at the Department of History, University of Calcutta () and continued there for more than 15 years. After that, he became the professor of history at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta () (1996-2010). He was the second Tagore National Fellow at the National Library in Kolkata. Currently he is Honorary Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre).
In 2011, Bhadra was conferred with the Bengali literary award, Ananda Puraskar (), for his book 'Nyara Bot-tolaye Jai Ko-bar?' ().