Andrew Wood Wilkinson CBE (born 19 April 1914 in Taunton, died 18 August 1995 in Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire) was a British paediatrician of Scottish extraction and the first Professor of Paediatric Surgery in the UK.

[2] Wilkinson then attended University of Edinburgh Medical School, graduating MB, ChB with first class honours in 1937[2] and winning the Pattison prize in clinical surgery.

[2] During World War II Wilkinson was conscripted into the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1942 to 1946.

Wilkinson was promoted to lieutenant colonel, initially taking part in the Normandy landings and then later posted to India to take part in the Burma Campaign and Operation Zipper,[2] eventually returning to Edinburgh after the war.

[4] In 1958, Wilkinson was appointed Nuffield professor of paediatric surgery at the Institute of Child Health at the University of London and as a surgeon working at Great Ormond Street Hospital.