西德尼·谢尔顿（Sidney Sheldon，也译：席尼·薛尔顿，1917年2月11日－2007年1月30日）是一位美国作家，他一生共创作18部小说，其中许多作品都是畅销书，全世界累计销售至今已达3亿册。西德尼·谢尔顿也是一位成功的剧作家和电影编辑：包括为百老汇音乐剧、好莱坞电影以及电视连续剧创作剧本，而他在这三个领域还分别获得各自的最高奖项——托尼奖（1959年，音乐剧《Redhead》），奥斯卡最佳原创剧本奖（1947年，《单身汉与时髦女郎》，The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer），艾美奖（《我爱珍妮》，I Dream of Jeannie）。

Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer and producer.

He came to prominence in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947) which earned him an Academy Award. He went on to work in television, where his works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84). He became most famous after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980). He is the seventh best selling fiction writer of all time.