Charles Frederick Rycroft (; 9 September 1914 – 24 May 1998) was a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
He studied medicine at University College London, and worked briefly as a psychiatrist for the Maudsley Hospital.
For most of his career he had a private psychiatric practice in London.
He was the author of a number of notable books, including A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (1968), The Innocence of Dreams (1979) and Psychoanalysis and Beyond (1985).