Colin Hinshelwood MacKay (27 August 1944 – 10 November 2023) was a Scottish journalist who served as political editor of STV for nineteen years.

[1] His mother Charlotte was a housewife and his father was Charles MacKay,[1] a doctor of midwifery and gynecology who served as group medical superintendent of Glasgow's Southern General Hospital for twenty years before his death in 1963.

[6] In March 1967, he and his teammate Matthew J. McQueen won the National Union of Students' competition for the Observer Mace, making them the sixth team from the university to do so.

[9] He later joined BBC Radio Scotland where he hosted a weekly politics show called People and Power.

[1] In the aftermath of his death, many fellow journalists paid tribute, including Fiona Ross,[9] and Bernard Ponsonby.

[1] Colin Mackay, STV's political editor who shared his name and former position, stated that he was "very sad" at his death and that he was a "great broadcaster, interviewer, and lovely person.