Charles Ernest Burland Cranfield, (13 September 1915, North London – 27 February 2015 Durham, UK) was a British theologian, academic, and Christian minister.
He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1941, served as a military chaplain during the Second World War, and then worked with prisoners-of-war and as a parish minister during the post-war period.
He moved into academia and was appointment a lecturer in theology at the University of Durham in 1950.
He was awarded a personal chair as Professor of Theology in 1978, and maintained his links with the university as Emeritus Professor from his retirement in 1980.
He moved away from Methodism and became a minister in the Presbyterian Church of England (which later became the United Reformed Church) in 1954.