Harold Ellis, CBE, Mch, FRCS (born 13 January 1926) is an English retired surgeon.

[1] He qualified as a doctor from the University of Oxford in July 1948, the same month the National Health Service began.

In 1962, he took up the foundation chair of surgery at the Westminster Hospital, a post which he held until his retirement from practice in 1989.

[3] Ellis is one of the most notable British surgeons of the past fifty years, renowned both for his inspirational teaching[4] and as the author of the definitive student textbook Clinical Anatomy, now in its fourteenth edition.

[6] The Professor Harold Ellis Medical Student Prize For Surgery[7] is named after him, and has been awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons since 2007.