Alfred Swaine Taylor (11 December 1806 in Northfleet, Kent – 27 May 1880 in London) was an English toxicologist and medical writer, who has been called the "father of British forensic medicine".

In 1832 he succeeded Alexander Barry as joint Lecturer on Chemistry with Arthur Aitken.

He was the main dissector of Lavinia Edwards's body, a woman who was determined to have been born male, and he wrote extensively about her.

[4] He appeared as expert witness in several widely reported murder cases.

He also developed the use of hyposulphate of lime as a fixing agent for photography.