Andrew Rae Gilchrist (7 July 1899 – 1 March 1995) was a Scottish cardiologist who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1957 to 1960.

[2] He was born on 7 July 1899, the only son of Catherine Hill and her husband, Rev Andrew Gilchrist (1871–1954).

At the age of 18 he was conscripted into the Royal Field Artillery and served for the final year of the First World War.

[5] From 1931 he worked as a Consultant at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary alongside Sir Stanley Davidson and Derrick Dunlop.

[6] In 1928 Gilchrist was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1963.