Sir Francis Gordon Bell[1] KBE, MC, FRCS, FRCSEd, FRACS (13 September 1887 – 28 February 1970) was a New Zealand surgeon who was professor of surgery at the University of Otago at Dunedin.

A visit to Professor August Bier's department at the Charité Hospital in Berlin was followed by a fellowship to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, which he took up at the start of World War I.

He was posted to France with the 20th General Hospital and in 1916 joined casualty clearing station (CCS) number 21 as a surgical specialist.

His conclusions, published in two important publications in 1925, came to be regarded as a significant contribution to the understanding of the development and classification of these tumours.

At a meeting held in Dunedin in 1927, the first steps towards the establishment of an Australasian College of Surgeons were taken and Bell was an enthusiastic supporter.

He was a foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) and played an increasingly active part in its affairs both in New Zealand and in Australia.

He is commemorated by an annual RACS eponymous lecture[12] and by the Sir Gordon Bell prize in surgery awarded by the University of Otago medical school.