Samson Gemmell FRFPS (1848 – 2 April 1913) was a Scottish paediatrician who became Regius Professor of Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow.

He applied to the University of Glasgow to study art, with a goal of joining the Civil Service, but a childhood deformity precluded this career move, and forced Gemmell to switch career to Medicine,[1] graduating in 1872 with a Medicine (M.B.)

His first role was working for one year as a resident assistant to Sir William Tennant Gairdner at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

[2] From 1874 to 1877 Gemmell worked as Physician assistant to Dr JB Russell at the Glasgow Fever Hospital.

[1] In 1908 Gemmell was appointed to Regius Professor of Medicine, a position he held until 1913.