Whitehead Hicks (August 24, 1728 – October 4, 1780) was the 42nd Mayor of New York City from 1766 to 1776.

[1] Hicks came from a Quaker family which settled and lent its name to Hicksville, New York.

Hicks studied law under William Smith and was admitted to practice in 1750.

[2] The son of Judge Thomas Hicks, he was a lawyer and served on the New York Supreme Court of Judicature.

Hicks was a Loyalist and was the first to appear in front of a committee of nine colonials formed by the New York Provincial Congress in 1776 to investigate "domestic enemies" "disaffected to the American cause".