Ronald Mitchell (born September 29, 1938) is an American former college football and college basketball coach.

A Chicago native, Mitchell attended Crane High School there, where he was captain of the basketball and football teams. He went on to play both college basketball and college football at Kentucky State College. He later served in the United States Army at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. He received a master's degree in health, physical education and recreation from Indiana University in 1967.

Mitchell became the first African American appointed to a full-time athletics position at Boston University when we was hired as an assistant football and basketball coach in 1968. In 1971, he became the first African American appointed as head basketball coach for a major college program, also at Boston University.

Mitchell served as a head coach in three different college sports: men's basketball, women's basketball, and football: