杰里米·边沁（英语：Jeremy Bentham，1748年2月15日－1832年6月6日），英国哲学家、法学家和社会改革家。他是最早支持效益主义和动物权利的人之一。

他着有《政府论片断》（1776年），在其中对英国宪法进行了探讨。在他的《道德与立法原理》一书中，效益主义（中国大陆通常译作“功利主义”，当然这一译名容易引起误解）的原则第一次得到明确的表达。边沁在实践上是激进的社会改革者，他反对君主专制，提倡普选制度。

边沁也是最具影响力的古典自由主义者之一，其影响力不仅来源于他的著作，而且来源于他全世界的门徒，包括约翰·史都华·弥尔和一些政治领袖，如罗伯特·欧文（乌托邦社会主义的代表人物）。

Jeremy Bentham (/ˈbɛnθəm/; 15 February 1748 [O.S. 4 February 1747] – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.

Bentham defined as the "fundamental axiom" of his philosophy the principle that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong". He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism. He advocated individual and economic freedom, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and the decriminalising of homosexual acts. He called for the abolition of slavery, the abolition of the death penalty, and the abolition of physical punishment, including that of children. He has also become known in recent years as an early advocate of animal rights. Though strongly in favour of the extension of individual legal rights, he opposed the idea of natural law and natural rights, calling them "nonsense upon stilts".