Frederick Charles Kenneth Wharton[1][2] (21 March 1916 – 12 January 1957) was a British racing driver from Smethwick, England.

His World Championship Grand Prix debut was at the 1952 Swiss event, run to Formula 2 regulations, where he started from 13th position on the grid and finished 4th.

With a Cooper 500, he also competed in the German Freiburg hill-climb where he was runner-up in the 500 cc class to Stirling Moss.

[7] In 1957 Wharton was fatally injured when his Ferrari Monza crashed in a sports-car race at the Ardmore Circuit in Auckland, New Zealand.

[8] More than 1,100 people attended his funeral, including his mother, father, sister, aunt, uncle and cousins.