Nicholas Orme FSA FRHistS (born 1942) is a British historian specialising in the Middle Ages and Tudor period, focusing on the history of children, and ecclesiastical history, with a particular interest in South West England.

Orme is an emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and has worked as a visiting scholar at, among others, Merton College, Oxford, St John's College, Oxford, and the University of Arizona. He retired on 31 May 2007 and is a canon of the Church of England.

His 2021 book, Going to Church in Medieval England, was shortlisted for the 2022 Wolfson History Prize.

Orme was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1973 and of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1982.

In addition to his scholarly works, Orme has published Ten Cathedral Ghosts (2022), a volume of historically themed ghost stories in the tradition of M. R. James and A. N. L. Munby.

For a more extensive list of Orme's publications, see School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Exeter Website and the University Library Catalogue