Phil R. Tinsley (January 16, 1924 – July 17, 1989) was an American football player who was an All-American end for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

He subsequently transferred to Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, as a member of the V-12 Navy College Training Program – a World War II-era program to train commissioned officers for the U.S.

Memorably, he caught a 46-yard touchdown pass from Eddie Prokop in the third quarter of the 1944 Sugar Bowl which provided the Yellow Jackets' margin of victory in their 20–18 win over the Tulsa Golden Hurricane.

[2] He was the Yellow Jackets team captain during his 1944 junior season, and was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American, having received first-team selections from the All-America Board, the Associated Press (AP), Collier's Weekly, International News Service (INS), Look magazine, Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), Central Press Association (CPA), Football News, The Sporting News, and Walter Camp.

[2][4] Tinsley was inducted into the Georgia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1970.