Vice-Admiral Philip Dean McFadden, CMM, CD (born July 12, 1957)[1] is a retired officer of the Canadian Forces.

[3] He served aboard Her Majesty's Canadian Ships (HMCS) Yukon, Restigouche and Miramichi, as well as instructing navigation at the Naval Officers’ Training Centre Venture.

In 1987 he attended the year-long Combat Control Officers Course, followed in 1987 by an appointment to the destroyer-escort HMCS Qu’Appelle.

In 1996 he attended the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, and later that year, on promotion to commander he returned to Halifax as executive officer of the replenishment ship HMCS Provider.

In December 2003, upon completion of Advanced Military Studies at the Canadian Forces College, he returned to the East Coast and assumed command of the Fifth Maritime Operations Group.