Milton Osborne adalah seorang sejarawan, pengarang, dan konsultan Australia yang mengkhususkan diri di Asia Tenggara.
Ia masuk North Sydney Boys' High School, lulus dari Universitas Sydney dan meraih gelar PhD dari Universitas Cornell. Osborne memegang jabatan-jabatan akademik di Australia, Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat dan Singapura.
Buku
- Singapore and Malaysia (1964)
- Strategic Hamlets in South Viet-Nam: A Survey and a Comparison (1965)
- The French Presence in Cochinchina and Cambodia: Rule and Response (1859–1905) (1969, reprinted 1997)
- Region of Revolt: Focus on Southeast Asia (1970)
- Politics and Power in Cambodia: The Sihanouk Years (Longman, 1973)
- River Road to China: The Mekong River Expedition, 1866–1873 (London and New York, 1975)
- Southeast Asia: An Introductory History (ten editions, 1979–2010)
- Before Kampuchea: Preludes to Tragedy (1979)
- Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness (1994)
- River Road to China: The Search for the Source of the Mekong, 1866–73 (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999) ISBN 0-87113-752-6
- The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future, Allen & Unwin, Sydney (2000), ISBN 1-86508-219-8
Artikel
- "Francis Garnier (1839–1873), Explorer of the Mekong River", Explorers of South-east Asia, Six Lives, ed. Victor T. King, (Kuala Lumpur: OUP, 1995)
- River at risk: the Mekong and the water politics of China and Southeast Asia Diarsipkan 2012-04-14 di Wayback Machine.
