Şevket Aziz Kansu (1903, Edirne–1983, Ankara) was a Turkish physician and academic.
In 1927, after completing compulsory government service and working as a medical doctor for two years in Bala, Ankara, he went to Paris to study anthropology.
[2] Returning to Turkey, Kansu worked both as a physician and an associate professor of anthropology at Istanbul University.
[3] In 1935 he moved from Istanbul to Ankara at the request of Atatürk, taking up a position at the newly established School of Language and History - Geography (Turkish: Dil ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi).
He served as the dean of that institution between 1942 and 1944, and when Ankara University was established in 1946, Kansu was elected as its first rector.