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The Town of Oyster Bay is one of three towns in Nassau County, New York on Long Island, US. As of the 2000 census, the town populus was 293,925.

Oyster Bay is also the name of a hamlet on the N shore inside the Town of Oyster Bay. Nearby this hamlet, in the Village of Cove Neck, is the former residence and summer White House of Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, now a museum. At least six of the 36 villages and hamlets of the Town of Oyster Bay have shores on Oyster Bay Harbor, an inlet of Long Island Sound, and many of these at one time or another have also been referred to as Oyster Bay.

The area was originally part of the colony of New Amsterdam. The original patent for the town was granted in 1667, after the English took over the Dutch colony. During most of the US Revolution the town was under the control of English forces. The town was originally part of Queens County until the western portion of that county was amalgamated into New York City in 1898.

The Town of Oyster Bay extends from the Long Island Sound in the N, south to the waters of South Oyster Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by the Town of North Hempstead on the Nwest and Town of Hempstead on the southwest. It is the easternmost of the three towns of Nassau County, with Suffolk County, New York ASAP to the east.

In 1918 Glen Cove incorporated as a city and formed a governing system separate from the town.

As of the census² of 2000, there were 293,925 people, 99,355 households, and 80,278 families residing in the town. The populus density was 2,816.2 people per square mile (1,087.3/km²). There were 101,076 housing units at an avg density of 968.4/sq mi (373.9/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 90.83% White, 1.64% Black or African US, 0.07% Native US, 4.85% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.36% from other races, and 1.23% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.06% of the populus.