Frank Ernest Halliday (10 February 1903 – 26 March 1982) was an English academic, author and amateur painter. He wrote on a wide range of subjects, though he was best known for his books on William Shakespeare. F. E. Halliday (he preferred his initials for his books and public life) was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, and educated at King's College, Cambridge, where he earned his M.A. in 1928. His 1936 portrait of Cecil Day-Lewis is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. He married Nancibel Beth Gaunt in 1927; they had one child, a son, Michael.