Arnold George Dominic Maran (16 June 1936 – 10 December 2017) MD, FRCSEd, FRCSEng, FACS, FRCPE was a Scottish head and neck surgeon and otolaryngologist.

Maran was educated at Daniel Stewart’s College, Edinburgh where he played rugby for the first XV and became an accomplished pianist.

[4][5] He returned to the UK to take up a post as consultant ENT surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary and graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1967 with a thesis on vestibular function.

After six years in Dundee he returned to the US to gain further experience, this time at West Virginia University becoming a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1975.

[3] Maran wrote in 2005 “Colin built a computer to measure the voice, and I used an endoscope with a keyhole camera to see the vocal cords.

[9] Maran earned the nickname "The Voice Doctor" and used this monniker as the tile of his book on the history and physiology of singing,[10] During his career he published over 200 papers in peer reviewed journals.

[11] In retirement he published a history of the Mafia[12] and an account of a game of golf which he played at the North Pole, a story interspersed with tales of Arctic explorers.

He was a member of the Magic Circle and of The Monks of St Giles, an organisation devoted to poetry composition and recital.