Major-General Ian Patrick Crawford, GM (11 October 1933 – 21 February 2009) was a British Army medical officer and expert on preventive medicine who was awarded the George Medal for saving the life of a Gurkha officer following a helicopter crash in the Borneo Jungle during the Malaysia-Indonesia confrontation in April 1964.

[1] He was educated at Chatham House Grammar School and St Thomas' Hospital, where he qualified as MRCS and as LRCP.

From 1968 to 1972 he was on the staff of the British Military hospital, Singapore, was an instructor at the RAMC training centre and a deputy assistant director of Army health in the Ministry of Defence.

During this period he conducted studies into the effects of sleep deprivation, extremes of cold and heat and improving army uniforms.

After his Army career, he wrote on preventive medicine and was a member of many charities including the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariner's Royal Benevolent Fund and was a trustee of the Florence Nightingale Museum.