Gustavus Charles Philip Murray (1831 – 7 August 1887) was a British obstetrician who may have been the inspiration for Luke Fildes' 1891 painting The Doctor.

[9] In 1858, Murray claimed, in a paper in The Lancet, to be able to tell the exact parts of a fetus, including each vertebra and the cleft between the buttocks, through feeling the abdomen of the pregnant woman.

[10] At the time, these women would have been examined only at labour and to be able to distinguish fetal parts during the antenatal period was felt to be unbelievable.

He was physician and later consulting physician-accoucheur to the St Pancras Provident Dispensary and was closely associated with the Establishment for Gentlewomen in Harley Street.

[2] Murray's professional demeanor may have been the inspiration for the attentive and concerned physician in Luke Fildes's painting The Doctor (1891) after he attended the artist's first child, Philip, when he became ill and died at Christmas 1877.

The artist's son, also Luke Fildes, wrote in his biography of his father:[9] "The character and bearing of their doctor throughout the time of their anxiety, made a deep impression on my parents.

[9] Murray died on 7 August 1887 at 66 Great Cumberland Place, London, after becoming weak with stomach and liver problems.