Hubert Maitland Turnbull FRS (3 March 1875, Glasgow – 29 September 1955) was a British pathologist.
[1][2] Hubert Turnbull's father was the manager and actuary of the Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society and his mother was a daughter of the publisher Adam Black.
He pursued graduate study at Oxford and in 1899 received Oxford's Hugh Russell Welsh prize for the study of human anatomy and the art of drawing in relation thereto.
From November 1903 to July 1904, Turnbull worked at the London Hospital's Institute of Pathology and then studied at Copenhagen and Dresden as a recipient of Oxford's Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in Medical Sciences.
At London Hospital's Institute of Pathology he established an outstanding department with a high standard of accuracy in biopsies and necropsies.