Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, , , , , FRS, FSA, KSG (8 May 1858 – 14 February 1929) was a British anatomist, administrator, archaeologist, scientist, educationalist and writer.

[1][2] He was born at Mayfield Vicarage, in Staffordshire, where his father, the Reverend Samuel Allen Windle, a Church of England clergyman, was vicar.

[6] During Windle’s time as president of University College Cork, he worked with John Robert O’Connell on the Honan Bequest which resulted in the building of the Honan Chapel with the inclusion of stained glass windows by An Túr Gloine and by Harry Clarke.

[7][8] Historian David N. Livingstone has noted that Windle favoured a Catholic version of neo-Lamarckism.

[10] Historian Peter J. Bowler has written that Windle was "one of the few biologists to defend an outright vitalism.