Sir Philip Herbert Hanson CB (18 September 1871 – 23 October 1955) was a British civil servant, who later served in the Irish Free State. Hanson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, the University of Edinburgh, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first in Greats. In 1895 he entered the Civil Service and joined the War Office. Already a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB), he was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours for his work with the Ministry of Munitions. He continued to live in Dublin until his death.