Prof David Ellis FRSE (1874–1937) was a Scottish bacteriologist, botanist and baker.
[1] In 1904 he became a Lecturer in Botany and Bacteriology at the West of Scotland Technical College.
He married Jeannie Wright Paulin in Muckhart in 1906, and the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
[4] In 1920 he became Superintendent of the Scottish School of Bakery, and from 1925 until death was Professor of Bacteriology at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow.
In December 1925 he appears to have made an early radio broadcast entitled "Why we Attribute Life to Plants".