Kenneth Anderson Kitchen is Personal and Brunner Professor Emeritus of Egyptology and Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, England. Despite extensive practical and academic research and output, he has never received a Ph.D., being quite proud to be "plain Mr Kitchen".

He is one of the leading experts on the Egyptian Third Intermediate Period, having written over 250 books and journal articles on this and other subjects since the mid-1950s. He has been described by The Times as "the very architect of Egyptian chronology".

Kitchen, an evangelical Christian, is an outspoken opponent of the documentary hypothesis of mainstream academic biblical scholarship, and has written extensively to defend the historicity of the Old Testament. Nevertheless, his historical dating is not in line with conservative evangelical literalist interpreters of the Bible; for example, he places the Exodus from Egypt some two centuries later than those who rely more directly upon scriptural references.