Chief Arthur Edward Prest (10 February 1906 – 26 September 1976) was an Itsekiri politician of biracial heritage from the Warri division of southern Nigeria.

Prest was born in February 1906 to a white English father from Liverpool who was a ship's captain and a merchant trader, and an Itsekiri royal Nigerian mother, Princess Mami Ogbe, who was the daughter of the Olu of Warri.

He studied law in England, and registered at the supreme court of Nigeria in 1947, prior to his nomination as a representative of the Warri district in the Western Regional House of Assembly.

Prest, Awolowo, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Anthony Enahoro and others fought for Nigeria's independence and attended the Lancaster House talks that negotiated Nigeria's independence.

His eldest child, (granddaughter to Arthur Prest) is Helen Prest-Ajayi, a former Miss Nigeria in 1979, lawyer, author and literacy advocate; while his son Michael J. Prest is a trained barrister (grandson of Arthur Prest), Nigeria's first oil trader, foremost oil and gas mogul and philanthropist.