Prof Kenneth Boyd Fraser FRSE MC (10 March 1917 – 17 July 2001) was a British virologist and hero of the Second World War.
In 1943 Fraser won the Military Cross for rescuing a sepoy whilst under heavy fire and then carrying him on his back 3 km over rough terrain to a place of safety.
Being awarded a Nuffield Grant he spent part of 1951 and 1952 in Australia working with Sir MacFarlane Burnet at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.
His proposers were Guido Pontecorvo, Daniel Fowler Cappell, Norman Davidson, and William Ogilvy Kermack.
On his death he left £50,000 to the university to fund the Kenneth B Fraser Memorial Lecture.