David Reeder (May 5, 1931 – August 1, 2005) was a British historian at the University of Leicester. After graduating from Nunthorpe Grammar School he won a scholarship at the University of Durham, where he served as Editor of Palatinate. He was a member of Hatfield College, where he was Captain of Table Tennis in 1950. Reeder took his PhD at the University of Leicester. He pursued a career in urban history and the history of education, co-founding the Urban History Group and editing the Urban History Yearbook for nine years.