Michael Mortimore (born 7 September 1937, Bermuda, died 10 September 2017) was a British geographer and a prolific researcher of issues in the African drylands.
He was an academic in Nigerian universities for over 25 years.
He ran a British research consultancy, Drylands Research.
He is best known for an anti-Malthusian account of population-environment relationships, More People, Less Erosion, and field-based studies of adaptation to drought.