Robert Haldane Makgill, CBE (24 May 1870 – 3 October 1946) was a New Zealand surgeon, pathologist, military leader and public health administrator.
He attended school in Auckland and went on to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB, CM in 1893 with first-class honours.
He went back to Edinburgh to gain his MD in 1899, and completed the diploma in public health from Cambridge University in 1901.
[2] After an outbreak of bubonic plague in Auckland in 1902 he produced a detailed analysis of the pathology and public health problems in the city and surrounding districts.
[2] During World War 1 he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, returning in 1916 to a public health position reporting on outbreaks of pneumonia and meningitis in military camps in Trentham, Upper Hutt and Featherston.