George Paul McNichol CBE (24 September 1929 – 28 July 2014) was a Scottish physician and university academic.
[2] McNicol worked as a surgeon and physician before returning to academia via a Harkness Fellowship at the Washington University in St. Louis in America.
His early academic career was at the University of Glasgow and he spent a secondment at Mekerere University College Medical School, Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi.
He returned to the UK and was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Leeds.
[3] He left Leeds to take up his next appointment as the Principal of the University of Aberdeen in 1981.