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Anthony "Tony" Warren MBE (born 1936) is a British television scriptwriter, best known for creating the soap opera Coronation Street.

As a child actor, he trained at the Elliot Clarke Theater school in Liverpool. Warren became a regular on BBC Radio Children's Hour, and he also acted in many radio plays. During this period he acted with many of the people who were later to become household names through Coronation Street, most notably Violet Carson and Doris Speed, who played Ena Sharples and Annie Walker respectively. He toured in Sandy Wilson's musical The Buccaneer, a part originly created by Kenneth Williams.

Anticipating a short run for the series, Warren penned all thirteen episodes of the serial that Granada Television promised to broadcast. When the show became a success, however, he continued to pen scripts for the programme until 1968, after which he retired. However, he continued to, sporadically, write scripts until the mid-seventies. The fame and royalties from creating the series earned him sufficient "clout" to enable him to become involved in projects on his terms, instead of as a necessity for survival (before creating Coronation Street, he only had two writing credits to his name, Shadow Squad and Biggles, two series for Granada). He wrote also for Granada The Private War of Darkie Pilbeam. Warren received the landmark achievement award in 2006 at the National Television Awards. He also helped write the Beatles-inspired film Ferry Cross the Mersey in 1965.

After several troubled years, and a long battle with alcohol, and drugs Tony Warren turned his life around. He wrote four novels, The Lights of Manchester, The Foot of the Rainbow, Behind Closed Doors, and Full steam ahead.

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