| John William Scott Macfie | |
| Birth Date: | 16 September 1879 |
| Birth Place: | Eastham, Cheshire |
| Death Place: | Buchanan Hospital, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex |
| Nationality: | British |
| Field: | zoology / medicine |
| Work Institutions: | University of Edinburgh Radcliffe Infirmary and County Hospital, Oxford |
| Alma Mater: | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
| Known For: | Researches on tropical diseases, especially on malaria and trypanosomiasis Contributions to entomology, particularly descriptive reports of new species, on ceratopogonidae (biting midges), mosquitoes and tse-tse fly |
| Prizes: | Mary Kingsley Medal |
John William Scott Macfie DSc (Edin.) (16 September 1879 – 11 October 1948) was an English entomologist, parasitologist and protozoologist.[1]
Macfie was born in Eastham, Cheshire, England. He died in Hastings, Sussex, England.
Macfie was educated at Oundle School and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1915 he received a DSc from the University of Edinburgh.[2] He was director of the Medical Research Institute in Accra between 1914 and 1923, having undertaken the same responsibilities in an acting capacity at Lagos in 1913.[1]
He was awarded the Mary Kingsley medal by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1919[1] and lectured at that institution on protozoology between 1923 and 1925.[1]