Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre (born 25 December 1963) is a British writer. He has written many books, and received numerous awards for both fiction and non-fiction works.

Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre was born on 25 December 1963, in Oxford, the elder son^[1] of Angus Donald Macintyre (d. 1994), a fellow and tutor in modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Joanna, daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave Harvey, 2nd Baronet and a descendant of Berkeley Paget.^[2][3] His paternal grandmother was a descendant of James Netterville, 7th Viscount Netterville.^[4]

Macintyre was educated at Abingdon School^[5] and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in history in 1985.^[6]