Keith Taylor (25 March 1949 - 3 January 2006) was a British political scientist who was an authority on the politics of Utopian socialism, about which he wrote and convened an academic seminar in the 1980s when the area was of little academic interest in Britain.
In 2000 he founded Kidney Cancer UK, a support organisation for kidney cancer patients and their carers after he himself was diagnosed with the disease.