Harry Swift (7 August 1858 – 29 September 1937) was an English-born medical practitioner, researcher and academic in South Australia.
He was educated at King's Ely,then at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,before being attached to St. George's Hospital, London.
In December 1915 he succeeded Sir Joseph Verco as lecturer on the principles and practice of medicine, which position he retained until 1922, when he retired.
He succeeded Verco as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, serving from 1924 to 1926, being followed briefly by Prof. Frederic Wood-Jones, who left South Australia for the University of Hawaii in 1927, Dr. William Ray,[2] then C. T. C. de Crespigny in 1928.
Harry Swift married (Kate Marian) Lilian Peacock (1864 – 26 June 1944) at Christ Church, North Adelaide on 23 April 1890.