John Parkin Whitehead was an English first-class cricketer, who played thirty seven first-class games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1946 to 1951, plus thirty three for Worcestershire in 1953 and 1955, and four more for the Combined Services in 1947. He also played for the Yorkshire Second XI (1946–1951), Lancashire (1945), Army (1947), Yorkshire Present (1951) and the Worcestershire Second XI (1955).