Sir Philip Lee Craven MBE (born 4 July 1950) is an English sports administrator, former Paralympic wheelchair basketball player, swimmer and track and field athlete.

[2] He was educated at Bolton School Boys' Division, where he was a keen swimmer, cricketer and tennis player.

[7] [6] In 1980, alongside Horst Strohkendl and Stan Labanowich, Craven played a vital role in the development of a new classification system for wheelchair basketball athletes.

Due to this, wheelchair basketball was increasingly associated with sport as opposed to medicine and rehabilitation, although both still play an important secondary role.

In 1988, Craven was elected Chairman of the Wheelchair Basketball Section of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF), the first athlete to lead the sport worldwide.

In the 1991 New Years Honours List he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II "for services to sport for the disabled.