Paul O'Neill OC LLD, (born 1928) is a writer, historian and former CBC producer born in St. John's, Newfoundland, and raised in Bay de Verde until the age of 8 when his family moved to St. John's, Newfoundland]], Canada. He has written many books on the history of Newfoundland. His father, James O'Neill, was a prominent merchant in the town of Bay de Verde. He married Josephine (Flynn) in 1928. Educated at St. Bonaventure's College in St. John's, National Academy of Theater Arts at New York, O'Neill was an aspiring actor in the United States and England from 1949 to 1952. While he was in England broadcaster Margot Davies had helped him in radio and encouraged him to write.

O'Neill began his career in radio with the CBC in Newfoundland where he produced many radio shows, TV shows such as Reach for the Top andschool broadcasts. He retired from the CBC in 1986. O'Neill published many plays, articles, poems and stories in addition to works of popular history. He has served as president of the Newfoundland Writer's Guild, chairman of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council and president of the St. John's Folk Arts Council. In 1988, O'Neill was awarded the honorary LL.D by Memorial University of Newfoundland and in 1990 he was appointed to the Order of Canada. In 2004 O'Neill was awarded the Freedom of the City and in 2008 he received Order of Newfoundland and Labrador.

O'Neill's literary works include: