Stanley Henry Prater (12 March 1890 – 12 October 1960) was an Anglo-Indian naturalist in India best known as a long-time affiliate of the Bombay Natural History Society and the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay, as ther curator of both institutions for the better part of three decades, and as the author of The Book of Indian Animals. Prater represented the Anglo-Indian and domiciled British communities in the Bombay Legislative Assembly from 1937 to 1947.