Thomas Kenneth Prebble MNZM (November 1945 – 17 January 2021) was a New Zealand educationalist and university administrator.

[3] After a PhD in education administration, completed in 1975 at the University of Alberta in Canada, Prebble was appointed a senior lecturer in the Department of Education at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

[7] In 2002, he stood down from his administrative roles at Massey and was appointed to the Department of Social and Policy Studies in Education, retiring in 2004.

[5][8] Prebble was involved in establishing Massey's postgraduate programme in educational administration, the first in New Zealand.

[5][6] Between 2008 and 2015, he was a board member and director of Ako Aotearoa, the national centre for tertiary teaching excellence, and he also served on the councils of Otago Polytechnic and UCOL.