Victor N. "Bud" Phillips (August 25, 1929 – January 9, 2017) was an American author and historian from Bristol, Virginia.

[1] Phillips was born in Northeastern Johnson County, Arkansas.

At the age of fifteen, he began preaching and traveling, and came to Bristol in 1953 on a bus.

[2] In 1982, Phillips moved to the Solar Hill Historic District in Bristol, Virginia, where he would reside until his death.

[4] His writings include Ghosts of Bristol: Haunting Tales from the Twin cities[5] and Hidden History of Bristol: Stories from the State Line.