Albert Edgar Hickman (August 2, 1875 – February 9, 1943) was the seventeenth Prime Minister of Newfoundland and has the distinction of having served the shortest term of any Prime Minister.

Albert Hickman was born in Grand Bank on August 2, 1875.

He married Mary Louise Laurie on December 24, 1906, and they had three children.

[1] A politician and businessman, he served as Prime Minister of Newfoundland for 33 days in 1924 as leader of a caretaker administration after the successive collapses of the Liberal Reform Party governments of Prime Ministers Sir Richard Squires and William Warren.

Albert Hickman died at his home in St. John's on February 9, 1943.