Frank Edward Brightman, FBA (1856–1932) was an English scholar and liturgist.
Brightman was educated at Bristol Grammar school, and became a mathematical scholar at University College London in 1875.
Following graduation, he was chaplain of University College, and later curate of St John the Divine, Kennington.
In December 1902 he was elected a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, as Theological Tutor.
J. R. R. Tolkien related a story how Brightman said that he once saw a dragon on the Mount of Olives, but that he "never before his death explained what he meant.