Philip John Stead
 Philip John Stead OBE FRSL (5 February 1915 - 22 June 2005) was an English criminologist author literary critic translator and poet. After retirement in the United Kingdom he emigrated to New York and then Massachusetts.Stead was born in Swinton South Yorkshire in 1915 and was educated at Oxford University. Moving to London he became a member of The Critics' Circle. During World War II he served in the British Army in North Africa Italy France Belgium and Germany.