Nina Fishman (26 May 1946 – 5 December 2009) was an American-born English labour movement historian and political activist. Fishman was born in San Francisco. Her father, , was an economist at the University of California, Berkeley. However, he was also a member of the Communist Party of the United States and was forced out of the university in the late 1940s, moving to Idaho State College and then the University of Colorado at Boulder. Fishman attended junior high school and high school in Boulder, although she lived in Britain for a year in 1962 while her father held a visiting fellowship at the University of Cambridge.