Philip Maxwell Ruddock AO (born 12 March 1943 in Canberra) is an Australian politician who is currently mayor of HornsbyShire. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia and is also currently the state president of the party's New South Wales division. He is also the Vice Chair of the Global Panel Foundation Australasia—with Sir Donald Charles McKinnon ONZ GCVO as Chair.

Ruddock was previously a Liberal member of the House of Representativesfrom 1973 to 2016. First elected in a 1973 by-election, by the time of his retirement he was the last parliamentary survivor of the Whitlam and Fraser Governments. He was both the Father of the House and the Father of the Parliament from 1998 to his retirement. He is the second longest-serving parliamentarian in the history of the Australian Parliament (only Billy Hughesserved longer).^[2] Ruddock served continuously in federal cabinet during the Howard Government, as Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairsfrom 1996 to 2003, and then Attorney-General from 2003 to 2007.