John William Scott Macfie DSc (Edin.)

(16 September 1879 – 11 October 1948) was an English entomologist, parasitologist and protozoologist.

Macfie was educated at Oundle School and Caius College, Cambridge.

[3] He was director of the Medical Research Institute in Accra between 1914 and 1923, having undertaken the same responsibilities in an acting capacity at Lagos in 1913.

[1] He was awarded the Mary Kingsley medal by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1919[1] and lectured at that institution on protozoology between 1923 and 1925.