Alexander R. MacEwen (1851–1916) was a Scottish writer, minister, professor and Moderator of the United Free Church of Scotland.

He spent a summer semester at University of Göttingen in 1877 and attended U.P.

On 29 January 1885, he married Margaret Jane Begg of Moffat, and they had two sons.

He travelled widely and visited Greece in 1883 and journeyed through Sinai and Palestine in 1892, writing many letters home about his experiences.

[1] He died in Edinburgh on 26 November 1916 and was buried with his wife, Margaret Jane Begg (d.1929), on the eastern corner of the south-west section of Dean Cemetery.