Barrie Patrick Marmion AO (20 May 1920 – 12 July 2014) was an English microbiologist who spent the majority of his career in Australia.
[1] At Leeds, he published the first description of Q fever endocarditis and co-authored a paper with Leonard Hayflick identifying the cause of Mycoplasma pneumonia.
[3] Marmion returned to Melbourne in 1963 as the Foundation Professor of Microbiology at the newly established Monash University Medical School.
[3] Marmion was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1994[7] and received the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.
He chaired Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council for many years[1] and served as president of the Australian Society for Microbiology from 1984 to 1986.