Barbara Everett (born 1932) is a Canadian-born British academic and literary critic, whose work has appeared frequently in the London Review of Books and The Independent. In addition to her own publications, she is recognised as a leading Shakespeare scholar. Everett was born in Montreal, Canada. A graduate of St Hilda's College, Oxford, she is a retired Fellow of Somerville College. She was married to the late Oxford scholar of English literature, Emrys Jones, with whom she appeared in the 1996 documentary Looking for Richard.