Robert C. Muehrcke (4 August 1921, Cincinnati, Ohio – 9 November 2003) was an American physician, known for his description of the clinical sign called Muehrcke's nails.
(In 1982 he published a book, Orchids in the Mud,[2] of personal accounts concerning these wartime campaigns.)
In Chicago he was an associate attending physician at Research and Educational Hospital and Cook County Hospital and an instructor in medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
In the later years of his career he was in the Department of Medicine of West Suburban Hospital, Oak Park.
Upon his death, he was survived by his wife, seven sons, and nine grandchildren.