Sir Alexander Anthony Jarratt CB DL (19 January 1924 – 19 December 2019) was a British businessman and senior civil servant. He was the fifth Chancellor of Birmingham University. He chaired a Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals studying higher education policy; the committee's influential report became known as the Jarratt Report. Sir Alex was knighted in 1979 and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1968. He was appointed chancellor of the University of Birmingham in 1983 and retired in 2002, to be succeeded by Sir Dominic Cadbury. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Essex.