Sir Charles Herbert Bressey, CB, CBE (3 January 1874 – 14 April 1951) was an English civil engineer and surveyor who specialised in road design.

Between 1935 and 1938 he carried out research on road planning and motorway design in preparation for his Highway Development Survey, 1937 for Greater London published in 1938.

He was educated at Forest School, Walthamstow and in France and Germany before starting work in his father's practice in the City of London, becoming a partner in 1896.

[1] At the start of World War I, Bressey was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and spent time in France and Flanders constructing military roads.

[2][3] For his war service, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE),[1] and received the Croix de Chevalier of the French Légion d'honneur.