Philotas (; lived 4th century BC) was a Macedonian soldier and noble from Upper Macedonia.
He was the father of Parmenion, the general of Alexander the Great (336 — 323 BC). Parmenion would go on to name his son after his father. It appears that he had two other sons, Asander and Agathon.
References Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, iii. 11 Arrian, i. 17; Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xix. 75 Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, , Boston (1867).