Ewan Aitken (born in 1962, Paisley[1]) is a minister of the Church of Scotland.
After attending Woodmill High School in Dunfermline, he studied Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex where he graduated BA (Hons) in 1985.
He then served from 1995 until 2002 as the minister of St Margaret's Parish Church Archived 2 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine in Restalrig, Edinburgh.
From 2002 he served full-time as a Councillor, including as the City Council's Executive member for education.
In 2011, Aitken contested the Scottish Parliamentary constituency of Edinburgh Eastern against the SNP's Kenny MacAskill.