尼爾·坎貝爾·道格拉斯·弗格森（；）是位大不列顛國籍的歷史學者，現任職為哈佛大學的提胥講座教授、牛津大學耶穌學院等大學機構的資深研究員。他的專長是與世界史、經濟史、惡性通貨膨脹、基金市場、美國暨英國的帝國主義等的相關研究。

弗格森的著作包括《帝國：大英世界秩序興衰以及給世界強權的啟示》、《貨幣崛起：金融資本如何改變世界歷史及其未來之路》與《文明：決定人類走向的六大殺手級Apps》均已製作成電視專題影集。

2004年，他登上《時代雜誌》的世界前100大具影響力的人物。

早年
弗格森1964年4月18日生於蘇格蘭格拉斯哥。父親是醫生，母親是物理教師。他後來就學於格拉斯哥學校，在無神論的學習環境下成長；儘管認為基督教道德對於社會有很大的幫助，並鼓勵孩童需要上教堂，但至今他仍保持著無神論者的觀點。

弗格森曾提及自他幼年起，他的醫生父親就開始培養他具有高度的自律意識和敬業的態度，他身任物理教師的母親負責培養他的創意性；他曾任新聞記者的外婆則鼓勵他寫作。弗格森在大學時代，一度無法從英國文學和歷史學擇一做為主修學系，後來是由於閱讀了名著《戰爭與和平》而選擇了歷史學。

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出版作品

共同著作
 "Let Germany Keep Its Nerve", The Spectator, April 22, 1995, pages 21–23
 “Europa nervosa”, in Nader Mousavizadeh (ed.), The Black Book of Bosnia (New Republic/Basic Books, 1996), pp. 127–32
 “The German inter-war economy: Political choice versus economic determinism” in Mary Fulbrook (ed.), German History since 1800 (Arnold, 1997), pp. 258–278
 “The balance of payments question: Versailles and after” in Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman and Elisabeth Glaser (eds.), The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 401–440
 “-{‘The Caucasian Royal Family’: The Rothschilds in national contexts}-” in R. Liedtke (ed.), ‘Two Nations’: The Historical Experience of British and German Jews in Comparison (J.C.B. Mohr, 1999)
 “Academics and the Press”, in Stephen Glover (ed.), Secrets of the Press: Journalists on Journalism (Penguin, 1999), pp. 206–220
 “Metternich and the Rothschilds: A reappraisal” in Andrea Hamel and Edward Timms (eds.), Progress and Emancipation in the Age of Metternich: Jews and Modernisation in Austria and Germany, 1815–1848 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999), pp. 295–325
 “The European economy, 1815–1914” in T.C.W. Blanning (ed.), The Short Oxford History of Europe: The Nineteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 78–125
 “How (not) to pay for the war: Traditional finance and total war” in Roger Chickering and Stig Förster (eds.), Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 409–34
 “Introduction” in Frederic Manning, Middle Parts of Fortune (Penguin, 2000), pp. vii–xviii
 “Clashing civilizations or mad mullahs: The United States between informal and formal empire” in Strobe Talbott (ed.), The Age of Terror (Basic Books, 2001), pp. 113–41
 “Public debt as a post-war problem: The German experience after 1918 in comparative perspective” in Mark Roseman (ed.), Three Post-War Eras in Comparison: Western Europe 1918-1945-1989 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002), pp. 99–119
 “Das Haus Sachsen-Coburg und die europäische Politik des 19. Jahrhunderts”, in Rainer von Hessen (ed.), Victoria Kaiserin Friedrich (1840–1901): Mission und Schicksal einer englischen Prinzessin in Deutschland (Campus Verlag, 2002), pp. 27–39
 “Max Warburg and German politics: The limits of financial power in Wilhelmine Germany”, in Geoff Eley and James Retallack (eds.), Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism and the Meaning of Reform, 1890–1930 (Berghahn Books, 2003), pp. 185–201
 “Introduction”, The Death of the Past by J. H. Plumb (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. xxi–xlii
 “Globalization in historical perspective: The political dimension”, in Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson (eds.), Globalisation in Historical Perspective (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
 “Introduction to Tzvetan Todorov” in Nicholas Owen (ed.), Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Oxford Amnesty Lectures (Amnesty International, 2003)
 “The City of London and British imperialism: New light on an old question”, in Youssef Cassis and Eric Bussière (eds.), London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 57–77
 “A bolt from the blue? The City of London and the outbreak of the First World War”, in Wm. Roger Louis (ed.), Yet More Adventures with Britainnia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (I.B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 133–145
 “-{The first ‘Eurobonds’: The Rothschilds and the financing of the Holy Alliance, 1818–1822}-”, in William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst (eds.), The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 311–323
 “Prisoner taking and prisoner killing in the age of total war”, in George Kassemiris (ed.), The Barbarization of Warfare (New York University Press, 2006), pp. 126–158
 “The Second World War as an economic disaster”, in Michael Oliver (ed.), Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century (Edward Elgar, 2007), pp. 83–132
 “The Problem of Conjecture: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine”, in Melvyn Leffler and Jeff Legro (eds.), To Lead the World: American Strategy After the Bush Doctrine (Oxford University Press, 2008)

電視紀錄片
 Empire 《帝國》（2003年）
 American Colossus 《美國競技場》（2004年）
 The War of the World 《世界大戰》（2006年）
 The Ascent of Money 《貨幣崛起》（2008年）
 Civilization: Is the West History?  《文明》（2011年）
 China: Triumph and Turmoil 《中國的崛起與動盪》（2012年）
 The Pity of War （2014年）

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外部連結

 
 Facebook Fan Page of Niall Ferguson 
 
 
 The Ascent of Money Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
 Audio: Niall Ferguson in conversation  The Forum, BBC World Service
 Hans Koning Still Not Over Over There?  The Nation, August 1999 – Review of The Pity of War
 Martin Rubin A Banker to the Rescue  WSJ.com, 26 June 2010
 Liaquat Ahamed Yesterday's Banker  NYTimes.com, 30 July 2010
 The Sun Sets in the West  Oxonian Review, 4 April 2011 – Review of Civilization
 An Interview with Niall Ferguson , Oxonian Review, 9 April 2011
 Niall Ferguson and the brain-dead American right , May 24, 2011

哈佛大学教授
牛津大学莫德林学院校友
格拉斯哥人
研究第一次世界大战的历史学家