Henry Clark Bourne Jr. (December 31, 1921 – March 25, 2010) was an electrical engineer, administrator and faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1981 until 1993. He was initially recruited by Georgia Tech president Joseph M. Pettit to be Georgia Tech's vice president of academic affairs; Bourne focused on faculty recruitment. Bourne would later serve as Georgia Tech's interim president after Pettit died of cancer in 1986. He established, and is the namesake for, the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Jr. Chair in Poetry, first held by Thomas Lux, and now held by Ilya Kaminsky.