Andrew Jukes (17 December 1774–10 November 1821) was a surgeon of the East India Company.
He arrived in Iran in 1808 as a member of Sir Harford Jones’ diplomatic mission.
Jukes vaccinated Tehrani children against smallpox in 1813, in the hopes of stemming the ravages of an epidemic.
[1] He was married in 1814 in Paris to Georgina Ewart, granddaughter of Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar, 2nd Baron d'Aguilar and had four children,[2] most of whom settled in Canada: Andrew John Jukes (1815),[3] Mark Richard Jukes (1817), Augustus Jukes (1821, he was the surgeon who assisted at the trial of Louis Riel[4]), and daughter Laura Eliza (1819-1836).
[6] Fraser oversaw his burial in the Armenian Monastery of Sourp Amenaprgich in New Julfa neighborhood of Isfahan.