Andrew Brian McGowan (born 17 August 1961) is an Australian scholar of early Christianity and an Anglican priest.

[1] Prior to appointment at Berkeley and Yale he was the seventh warden of Trinity College (University of Melbourne) (2007–2014) and Joan F. W. Munro Professor of Historical Theology in the Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne within the University of Divinity.

He attended Christ Church Grammar School in Perth and was an early member of the music group that became the Triffids.

He then undertook doctoral studies in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, United States (MA, PhD, 1996), where he was supervised by Harold W. Attridge.

He has also been a commentator on aspects of higher education and religion in contemporary society, including in the Washington Post, USA Today, The Age, The Australian, The Conversation, ABC's The Drum,[6] the news column of the Biblical Archaeology Society called "Bible History Daily" and SkyNews.