Phyllis Hayford Hutchings (May 18, 1904 – July 7, 1965)[1] was an American astronomer, engineer, and college professor.

[3] Her dissertation was titled "The Galactic Rotation Effect in Open Clusters".

[4] Hayford worked at Lick Observatory from 1926 to 1937, in various positions, including assistant to Donald Howard Menzel,[5] computer[6] and research fellow.

[11][12] Hayford married mathematician William Lawrence Hutchings in 1934; they had a daughter, Lucy, born in 1938.

Phyllis Hutchings died in 1965, at the age of 61, while she was teaching a summer course in Lawrence, Kansas.