Ralph Brown (British, b.1928) is a painter. Brown studied at the Leeds School of Art from 1948 to 1951. From 1952 to 1956, he studied at the Royal College of Art, which included a period of working with Zadkine (Russian, 1890–1967) in Paris in 1954. In 1955, he was awarded a Royal College of Art Scholarship to Greece. During that same year, Brown's Mother and Child was purchased by Henry Moore. Brown was awarded a Boise Scholarship to Italy in 1957. In 1972, he was a professor of sculpture at Salzburg Festival Summer Academy and was elected Royal Academician. From 1956 to 1958, he taught at Bournemouth College of Art. Brown then tutored from 1958 to 1969 at the Royal College of Art. He also taught part time at the West of England College of Art and several other schools until 1973. He eventually retired from teaching and moved to France, but then returned to Gloucestershire in 1976.

Brown had his first solo exhibition in 1961 at the Leicester Galleries in London. He had a follow-up exhibition at the same gallery in 1963, and another in 1979 at the Browse & Darby. Those exhibitions led to shows in Austria, the United States, Germany, and France. The Henry Moore Centre in Leeds produced a full retrospective of Brown's work in 1988, and he has been a part of group exhibitions in Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

Brown's works are included in public collections throughout the world, including the Aberdeen Art Gallery in Scotland, the Bristol Art Gallery, the Halifax Art Gallery in Yorkshire, Leeds City Art Gallery in Leeds, the Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Norfolk Contemporary Art Society, the Royal College of Art in London, the Tate Gallery in London, the Albright-Knox Collection in Buffalo, NY, the Salzburg State Museum in Austria, and the Stuyvesant Foundation in South Africa. His sculptures are also located in public areas, such as the Kodak House in Hemel, Hempstead, the Jersey Zoo, the Newnham College in Cambridge, and in the Ladyshott Common Room at the Commonwealth Institute in London. Brown lives and works in his own gallery in Gloucestershire.