Raphael Owor is a Ugandan physician, pathologist, academic and medical researcher.
Following his studies at Makerere, he received further training in the United Kingdom, specializing in Human Pathology.
Later, on 30 January 2010, Mbarara University awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Science degree.
[4] Owor was one of the academicians who remained behind running Makerere University Medical School, when Ugandan dictator Idi Amin expelled Asians in 1972.
[2] He was the first person in Uganda, who is not a head of State, to serve as the chancellor of a public university.