Howard Jerome Keisler (born 3 December 1936) is an American mathematician, currently professor emeritus at University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research has included model theory and non-standard analysis. His Ph.D. advisor was Alfred Tarski at Berkeley; his dissertation is Ultraproducts and Elementary Classes (1961). He is also known for extending the (of Leon Henkin) to what are now called . He is also known for the Rudin–Keisler ordering along with Mary Ellen Rudin. He held the named chair of at Wisconsin. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.