Brian Reynold Bishop (born Kingston upon Thames, 1934) was the seventh Cifal (Chief) of the Volapük-speakers' community and President of the Volapük Academy.
After having studied French, Spanish and Latin (he later supported the Latinitas Viva or Living Latin movement), he came into contact with constructed auxiliary languages such as Esperanto and Volapük.
He started a long correspondence with Arie de Jong, the reformer of the Volapük language, and with the previous cifals Johann Schmidt and F. J. Krüger.
In 1979, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the creation of Volapük, Brian Bishop wrote to a number of newspapers and radio stations to mention the fact, which led to some attention being given to it.
He is also a participant in the Volapük discussion group, which unites most living Volapükists.