John Burton Phillips (19 November 1933 – 18 October 2017) was an English cricketer. He played in a total of 32 first-class cricket matches between 1955 and 1957. Phillips was born at Canterbury in Kent and educated at The King's School, Canterbury before going up to St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1955. A tall fast bowler, he took 170 wickets as a schoolboy and played for at Lord's for the Public Schools in 1952, his final year at school. He was also a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral whilst at school.