Major-General Alexander Vass Anderson CB CMG MBE (17 November 1895 – 17 October 1963) was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War.

In 1921, Anderson was attached to the 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners and saw active service in the Malabar rebellion.

He then worked at the War Office, before serving as Deputy Quarter-Master General (DQMG), British Army Staff in Washington, D.C.

From August 1944 to April 1947, Anderson was Director of Civil Affairs at the War Office and retired with the rank of major-general in June 1949.

[12][13] He married secondly, in 1935, Aileen Elizabeth (1902-1981), daughter of Stanley James Stevenson, of Edinburgh, and widow of Major T. J. Barnes, of the 64th Pioneers.