伊恩·尼什（，），是一名英國歷史學家、日本學家，目前為倫敦政治經濟學院榮譽教授。其有關英日同盟、20世紀英日外交的著作在國際之間享有很高的評價。

出生於愛丁堡，在第二次世界大戰前夕贏得了前往英屬印度攻讀東方語言的機會，在終戰後被派往英屬馬來亞新山和日本吳市。歸國後，他入讀倫敦大學亞非學院，又從愛丁堡大學取得文學碩士學位。1957年到1962年任教於悉尼大學，復於倫敦政治經濟學院執教直到1991年退休。他於同年獲頒旭日章和國際交流基金獎，2007年被選為日本學士院名譽會員。2022年7月31日逝世。

重要著作

2003
 Nish, Ian, ed.  The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5: A Collection of Eight Volumes.  Folkestone, Kent : Global Oriental.   (set) --  OCLC 56955351
 Volume 1: Historical Introduction  Selected papers and Documents by Ian Nish
 Volume 2:  A Staff officer’s Scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese War, Vol. I  (1905) by Sir Ian Hamilton. 
 Volume 3: A Staff officer’s Scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese War, Vol. II (1907) by Sir Ian Hamilton. 
 Volume 4:  With the Russians in Manchuria  (1905) by Maurice Baring. 
 Volume 5:   The War in the Far East  (1905) by Charles à Court Repington.  
 Volume 6:  Port Arthur. The Siege and Capitulation  (1906) by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett. 
 Volume 7:  From Libau to Tsushima: A narrative of the voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky’s fleet to Eastern seas, including a detailed account of the Dogger Bank Incident,  tr. Major Frederick Rowlandson Godfrey (1906) By Eugene S. Politovsky.  
 Volume 8: The Battle of Tsushima Between the Japanese and Russian Fleets, fought on 27 May 1905, tr. Captain Alexander Bertram Lindsay (1912) by Captain Vladimir Semeoff; combined with A Subaltern in Old Russia, tr. Ivor Montagu (1944) by Lieutenant-General A.A. Ignatyev. 

2002
 Nish, Ian.  Collected Writings, Part 2: Japan, Russian and East Asia.  (Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan, Vol. 7.)  London: Routledge.  (cloth)

2001
 Nish, Ian.  Collected Writings, Part 1.   (Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan, Vol. 6.) London: Routledge.  (cloth)

2000
 Nish, Ian. "Echoes of Alliance, 1920-1930" in The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, Vol. I (edited by Ian Nish and Yoichi Kibata). London: Macmillan.
 _. "Itō Hirobumi's Overseas Sojourns," Bulletin of the European Association of Japanese Studies, Vol. 55.
 _. "Nationalism in Japan" in In Asian Nationalism (edited by M. Leifer). London: Routledge.
 _. Nichi-ei Kotsushi, Vol. I: 1600-1930; Vol. II: 1930-2000. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.
 _. "Policies of the European Powers in Southeast Asia, 1893-1910" in King Chulalongkorn's Visit to Europe (edited by C. Tingsabadh). Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press.
 _. "Repercussions of the Asia-Pacific War on Independence Movements in Indonesia" in Europe, Southeast Asia in the Contemporary World (edited by P. Bunnag, F. Knipping, S. Chonchirdsin, S. Nomos.
 _ and Yoichi Kibata.  The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations: The Political-diplomatic Dimension. Vol. I: 1600-1930; Vol. II: 1930-2000. London: Macmillan. 

1999
 Nish, Ian."Aoki Shūzō 1844-1914" in Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. 3 (edited by J.E. Hoare). London: Curzon.
 _. "Auviarsi del Giappone verso L'Autonomia Economica: La Marina Mercantile" in La Rinascita di una Grande Potenza (edited by V. Ferretti, G. Giordano).  Francoangeli.
 _. "Britain and Postwar Thinking on Decolonization in Southeast Asia, 1943-1946" in Europe and Southeast Asia in the Contemporary World (edited by F. Knipping).  Nomos.
 _. "Changing Japan," Euro-Japanese Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1.
 _. "George Bailey Sansom and his Tokyo Friends, 1903-47," Bulletin of the Asiatic Society of Japan, No. 8.
 _. "Sir George Sansom: Diplomat and Historian" (Annual Cortazzi Lecture) in Proceedings of the Japan Society.

1994
 Nish, Ian and James E. Hoare, eds.  Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. II.  London: RoutledgeCurzon. 
 _, ed.  Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. I.  Folkestone, Kent: Japan Library. 

1972
 Nish, Ian. (1972).  Alliance in Decline: A Study in Anglo-Japanese Relations 1908-23.   London: Athlone Press.   (cloth)

1966
 Nish, Ian. (1966).   The Anglo-Japanese Alliance: The diplomacy of two island empires 1894-1907.  London: Athlone Press. [reprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2004.  (paper)]

参考资料

愛丁堡人
英國歷史學家
英國日本學家
倫敦大學亞非學院校友
愛丁堡大學校友
第二次世界大戰英國陸軍人物
悉尼大學教師
倫敦政治經濟學院教授
CBE勳銜
勳三等旭日中綬章獲得者