Philip Sandeman Ziegler (* 24. december 1929, Ringwood, Anglicko – † 22. február 2023) bol britský biograf a historik.
Životopis Vzdelával sa na St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne a potom na Summer Fields School v Oxforde.Summerfields School Register 1864-1960 Oxonian Press 1960 Pokračoval na Eton College a New College. Absolvoval štúdium práv a nastúpil k British Foreign Service. Následne bol vyslaný na miesta ako Laos, Pretoria a Bogota, a pôsobil aj ako delegát NATO v Paríži. The Black Death, Penguin Books, 1982 (reprint)
V roku 1967 odišiel z diplomatických služieb a začal pracovať pre nakladateľstvo Collins. Pôvodne zamýšľal stať sa románopiscom, ale začal kariéru ako autor životopisov. Bol šéfredaktorom v Collins v rokoch 19791980. Písal pre The Spectator, The Listener, The Times, The Daily Telegraph a History Today.
Dielo Duchess of Dino (1962) Addington: A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth (1965) The Black Death (1969) King William IV (1971) Omdurman (1973) Melbourne : a Biography of William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1976) Crown and People (1978) Diana Cooper (1981) Mountbatten. The Official Biography (1985) Elizabeth's Britain 1926 to 1986 (1986) Diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten 1920 – 1922: Tours with the Prince of Wales (1987) editor Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, South-East Asia, 1943 – 1946 (1988) The Sixth Great Power: Barings 1762 – 1929 (1988) From Shore to Shore – The Final Years: The Diaries of Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1953 – 1979 (1989) Edward VIII, the Official Biography (1990) Brooks's: A Social History (1991) editor, spolueditor Desmond Seward Wilson: The Authorised Life of Lord Wilson of Rievaulx (1993) London at War 1939 – 1945 (1995) Osbert Sitwell (1998) Britain Now and Then: The Francis Frith Collection (1999) Soldiers: Fighting Men's Lives, 1901 – 2001 (2001) Man Of Letters: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Literary Impresario Rupert Hart-Davis (2005) Edward Heath, Harper Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-00-724740-0 Olivier, MacLehose Press, 2013.
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