Sir Jeffrey Hudson (1619 –
circa 1682) was an English
court dwarf at the court of
Queen Henrietta Maria. He was famous as the "Queen's dwarf" and "Lord Minimus", and was considered one of the "wonders of the age" because of his extreme but well-proportioned smallness. He fought with the Royalists in the
English Civil War and fled with the Queen to France but was expelled from her court when he killed a man in a
duel. He was captured by
Barbary pirates and spent 25 years as a slave in North Africa before being ransomed back to England.