John Philips Higman FRS (1793, Kingsbridge, Devonshire – 7 August 1855, Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, London) was an Anglican rector and mathematician.
At age 19, Higman matriculated on 2 June 1812 at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. (3rd Wrangler) in 1816 and M.A. in 1819. In 1818, he was a Fellow of Trinity College and from 1822 to 1834 he was a tutor there. The students he tutored included Augustus De Morgan[1] and John Grote.[2] On 23 May 1820 Higman was elected F.R.S. On 28 October 1821 he was ordained an Anglican priest (at Ely). In 1823 he gave the Rede Lecture in Philosophy.[3] From 1834 to 1855, he was Rector of the Anglican Parish of Fakenham, Norfolk.
On 28 March 1837, he married Anastasia Read (born 1818).