Stephen Phelps Oakley, FBA (born 20 November 1958) is a British classicist and academic. An expert on the work of Livy, he is the ninth Kennedy Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College.^[1][2]

Oakley was born on 20 November 1958.^[3] He was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire. He went on to study at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1980 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1985.^[4]

From 1984, he worked at the university's Emmanuel College, first as a research fellow and, from 1986, as an official fellow. In 1998, he accepted a position at the University of Reading which he held until 2007. He then returned to Cambridge to succeed Michael Reeve as the Kennedy Professor of Latin.^[4]

In 2024, he held the Lyell Readership in Bibliography at the University of Oxford, giving the associated Lyell Lectures on the transmission of Latin text.^[5]

• The hill-forts of the Samnites (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, 10), British School at Rome, London, 1995.
• A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume I, Introduction and Book VI, Oxford University Press, 1997.
• A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume II, Books VI-VIII, Oxford University Press, 1998.
• A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume III, Book IX, Oxford University Press, 2005.
• A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume IV, Book X, Oxford University Press, 2005.