Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is a British computer scientist.

He is also Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.

[7] He was educated at Earlham School in Norwich, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and later a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Edinburgh,[7] with a thesis on quantum field theory supervised by David Wallace and Peter Higgs.

[13] His latest book, Deep Learning, Foundations and Concepts, was published in 2023 by Springer.

[14] Bishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009[15] and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011.