Phillip Whitehead (30 May 1937 – 31 December 2005) was a British Labour politician, television producer and writer.

Born in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, he was adopted by a local family in Rowsley, and attended Lady Manners School in Bakewell and Exeter College, Oxford, where he obtained his BA degree.

After standing unsuccessfully at West Derbyshire in 1966, he represented Derby North as a Labour MP from 1970 to 1983, when he was defeated by the Conservative Greg Knight.

He was also author of several books derived, with the exception of his Fabian essays, from the television series he produced: In 1988 he was MacTaggart Memorial Lecturer at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

Whitehead was taken ill on 31 December 2005 and died later that evening in a hospital in Chesterfield from a heart attack aged 68.