Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller, 1st Baronet, GCH (né Phipps; 6 October 1769 – 1 January 1853), was an English eye surgeon, who practiced in London during the latter part of Georgian era.

The elder Jonathan for many years had a junior partner in his practice named James Ware, who ultimately became one of the best known eye surgeons in the city.

[1] The War with Napoleon took place during the latter part of George III's reign, and many soldiers returning to Britain from the Nile Campaign had contracted a virulent eye disease widely known as the "Egyptian ophthalmia".

Little was known at the time about treating it effectively, and this led Phipps to start in 1804 the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye, which was the first hospital of its kind in London.

Although he was an eye doctor, Sir Jonathan lost his own sight in his later years,[4] and died on 1 January 1853 at Cavendish Square in St. Marylebone, London.