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 by samuel butler:
“People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“There is more truth in honest lies,
Believe me, than in half the truths.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)