Ernest Chalmers Fahmy FRCSEd, FRCOG (28 November 1892 – 25 August 1982) was a Scottish obstetrician and gynaecologist.

Shortly after qualifying in medicine, he played for the Scotland international rugby team on four occasions.

From there he went on to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1911, but joined the army on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

After resident hospital posts in Edinburgh, he spent three and a half years as a general practitioner in Abertillery, South Wales.

[2] At university, Fahmy had proved to be a talented track athlete, gymnast and rugby union player.

[4] His father Ahmed Fahmy had established a hospital for the poor in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China.

[9] They had a son, Eric, who became a pilot in the Royal Air Force and was lost in 1942 on a flight from Gibraltar to Malta.,[2] and a daughter Joan (born 1933), married in 1956 to Thomas L. Johnston.