Samuel Butler may refer to:
- Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680), author of Hudibras
- Samuel Butler (schoolmaster) (1774–1839), classical scholar, schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, Bishop of Lichfield
- Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835–1902), grandson of the scholar, author of Erewhon
- Samuel Butler (cricketer) (1850–1903), who in 1871 took all ten wickets in an innings for Oxford against Cambridge
- Sam Butler, Australian Rules footballer
Famous quotes containing the words samuel butler and/or butler:
“Think of, and look at, your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)