Felix Medland Arscott (12 November 1922 – 5 July 1996) was a British mathematician who was a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics from 1976.

[2] Dr. Arscott was the founding head of the Applied Mathematics department at University of Manitoba from 1974 through 1986[3] and was named Professor Emeritus in 1995.

He served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, becoming a commissioned officer.

He obtained an honours degree in mathematics from the University of London by private study.

in 1951, he left the UK to teach mathematics at Makerere University in Uganda.