Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby, 1st Baronet KCB KCMG KCVO FRCS (10 May 1855 – 7 April 1929) was a British Army officer, surgeon and pathologist.

[1] Anthony was educated at Durham School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London (1876), qualifying as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1879.

During the Second Boer War (1899–1900) he served as a medical officer in South Africa at the Portland Field Hospital, Bloemfontein, after which he was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George[1] He was Surgeon to King Edward VII's Household between 1904 and 1910 and Honorary Surgeon-in-Ordinary to King George V in 1910.

[1] As a young man, Bowlby reportedly decided to delay marriage in order to take care of his widowed mother until her death.

He died on holiday at Stoney Cross, Lyndhurst, on 7 April 1929, was cremated at Brookwood, and buried at Brooklands Cemetery.