Vincent Cronin
 Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin FRSL (24 May 1924 – 25 January 2011) was a British historical cultural and biographical writer best known for his biographies of Louis XIV Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Catherine the Great and Napoleon as well as for his books on the Renaissance.Cronin was born in Tredegar Monmouthshire to Scottish doctor and novelist A. J. Cronin and May Gibson but moved to London at the age of two.