基数排序（英语：Radix sort）是一种非比较型整数排序算法，其原理是将整数按位数切割成不同的数字，然后按每个位数分别比较。由于整数也可以表达字符串（比如名字或日期）和特定格式的浮点数，所以基数排序也不是只能使用于整数。基数排序的发明可以追溯到1887年赫尔曼·何乐礼在打孔卡片制表机（Tabulation Machine）上的贡献。

它是这样实现的：将所有待比较数值（正整数）统一为同样的数位长度，数位较短的数前面补零。然后，从最低位开始，依次进行一次排序。这样从最低位排序一直到最高位排序完成以后，数列就变成一个有序串行。

In computer science, radix sort is a non-comparative integer sorting algorithm that sorts data with integer keys by grouping keys by the individual digits which share the same significant position and value. A positional notation is required, but because integers can represent strings of characters (e.g., names or dates) and specially formatted floating point numbers, radix sort is not limited to integers. Radix sort dates back as far as 1887 to the work of Herman Hollerith on tabulating machines.