Ronnie Scott (born Jan. 28, 1927, London, Eng.—died Dec. 23, 1996, London) was a British jazz entrepreneur and musician whose London nightclub, Ronnie Scott’s, became one of the world’s most famed jazz venues. A gifted bebop tenor saxophonist, he founded his club in 1959 and presented many of the outstanding American and European jazz musicians there while also leading small combos and (in 1962–73) playing in the Kenny Clarke–Francy Boland big band.