Rumer Godden, English author and poet (d. 1998)
Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English writer of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably Black Narcissus in 1947 and The River in 1951.

A few of her works were co-written with her elder sister, novelist Jon Godden, including Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir of the Goddens' childhood in a region of India now part of Bangladesh.