Stanley James Hugill (1906–1992), known as the “Last Working Shantyman,” was a British folk music performer, maritime artist, and sea music historian. He sailed commercially from 1922 to 1945, notably serving as the shantyman on the Garthpool, the last British commercial sailing ship, during her final voyage which ended in wreck off the Cape Verde Islands in 1929.

During World War II, Hugill was helmsman on the SS Automedon when she was sunk by the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis in 1940, and he spent four and a half years as a prisoner of war. After the war, he became an instructor at the Outward Bound Sea School in Aberdovey from 1950 to 1975.

When laid up with a broken leg in the 1950s, Hugill began writing down the shanties he had learned at sea. This work eventually produced several landmark books including Shanties From the Seven Seas, Shanties and Sailors' Songs, and Songs of the Sea. He also released several albums, often performing with the Merseyside folk group Stormalong John. As of 1993, the Stan Hugill Memorial Trophy is awarded to the winner of the Tall Ships’ Crews Shanty Competition.