Alexander Bryson, CB, FRCP, FFPS, FRS (1802–1869) was a Scottish naval surgeon and medical writer.
He was educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow, entered the Royal Navy as assistant-surgeon in 1827, and rose to become director-general of the naval medical department in 1864.
Alexander Bryson began his professional studies at Edinburgh and continued them at Glasgow, where he took his doctor's degree and was admitted a member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons.
He was appointed honorary physician to Queen Victoria in 1859, and subsequently he was made a companion of the Order of the Bath.
[1] He was the author of a treatise on The Climate and Diseases of the African Station, and of an eight-volume series titled An Account of the Origin, Spread, and Decline of the Epidemic levers of Sierra Leone.