Alexander Hugh Freeland Barbour FRSE FRCPE (7 January 1856 – 11 June 1927) was a Scottish gynaecologist and noted medical author.

He graduated with an MD in 1884, having won a gold medal for his thesis On Spinal Deformity in relation to Obstetrics.

[4] He died in Edinburgh and was buried in Dean Cemetery on the lower concealed south terrace.

Their son George Brown Barbour (1890-1977) became a geologist,[5] spending time in America and China, and is known as the discoverer of the Xiaochangliang site.

He was president of the Scottish Auxiliary of the China Mission of the Presbyterian Church of England, succeeding his father.