Kathleen Stirling Scrymgour OBE (2 May 1895 – 4 February 1982) was an Australian hospital matron.

Her parents were Amelia (born Trigg) and a printer named Bernard Vincent Scrymgour.

She trained as a nurse at Adelaide Hospital from 1917[1] for three years, where she won a gold medal.

[2] Thanks to a Florence Nightingale scholarship she went to the UK in 1935 where she studied at Bedford College in London.

[1] After years of persuasion the hospital board approved the cost of establishing a preliminary training school for her nurses.