John Russell Anderson CBE FRSE (31 May 1918 – 30 October 2011) was a Scottish pathologist, Professor of Pathology at the Western Infirmary, University of Glasgow, 1967–1983.
He won a scholarship to study medicine at the University of St Andrews.
[5] After graduation he worked in hospitals in Dundee and began specialising in pathology under Prof Daniel Fowler Cappell.
He then spent 1945 to 1947 completing National Service in Ghana, Libya and Egypt.
He rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps.