Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born in 1939) is an American drummer, considered an influential R&B, soul, funk musician. He is known for his precise musical time keeping and his signature use of triplets against a half-time backbeat: the "Purdie Shuffle". He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.

Purdie started working with Aretha Franklin as musical director in 1970. This began an unparalleled career. He has been hailed as the most recorded drummer in music history WITH A discography of over 3,000 recordings. He has played with such performers as Herbie Mann, Yused Lateef, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, B.B.King, Robert Palmer, Eddie Palmieri, Gato Barbieri, Miles Davis, Cat Stevens, James Brown, Hall & Oates, Bette Midler, Joe Cocker, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan and many, many more. Purdie was credited on the soundtrack album for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) and more recently he was the drummer for the 2009 Broadway revival of Hair and appeared on the associated Broadway cast recording.

In 2014, he wrote his autobiographical novel, “Let the Drums Speak.” which propelled his worldwide fame further and brought him to perform in international venues from Brazil to Japan to Copenhagen.