查尔斯·兰姆是英国作家。

其父是律师的书记员。在校时成绩优良，本来打算进入剑桥大学深造，因口吃未能通过大学先修班之考试，15岁即缀学工作。初入南海公司（South Sea House），17岁入东印度茶叶公司（East India Tea House）任簿记员。查尔斯的哥哥约翰早亡，他和姐姐玛丽合写儿童文学作品，1806年，兰姆姐弟开始从莎士比亚戏剧中选择20个最为人们所熟知的，把它们改写成叙事体的散文。查尔斯·兰姆改写其中六个悲剧，即《李尔王》、《麦克白》、《雅典的太门》、《罗密欧与朱丽叶》、《哈姆莱特》和《奥瑟罗》。其中十四部喜剧均由姐姐玛丽所改写，这部书即是后来著名的《莎士比亚戏剧故事集》。

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

He also wrote a number of poems, and was part of a literary circle in England, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, whom he befriended. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".