Major-General Philip James Shears CB (6 April 1887–7 April 1972) was a senior officer in the British Army.
He was born in Surbiton, Surrey, the only son of James Charles Shears, a mechanical engineer from Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, and Beatrice Jane Margaret Dumas. He was a great-grandson of coppersmith Daniel Towers Shears, a partner of James Shears and Sons.
He went on to serve as Colonel of The Border Regiment (now part of The King's Own Royal Border Regiment) from 1947 to 1952.
In 1948, Shears published The Story of the Border Regiment, 1939-1945.