David Wylie McDonald, CMG (9 October 1927 – 8 March 2007) was a Scottish architect and a colonial civil servant.
Born on 9 October 1927 in Armadale, West Lothian, he was educated at Harris Academy, Dundee and volunteered for the Black Watch at the age of 17 in late 1944.
He was also in charge of the HK$3.5 billion scheme to modernise and electrify the Kowloon-Canton Railway and construction of the 1,400-bed Prince of Wales Hospital.
McDonald also streamlined the over-bureaucratic Public Works Department and set up a unit to eliminate bribery and corruption.
In Dundee, he was on the board of the Edinburgh-based Margaret Blackwood Housing Association which provides a home for disabled people and their families.