William Cumberland Cruikshank (1745 in Edinburgh – 27 June 1800) was a British physician and anatomist.

He was the author of The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body, which was first published in 1786.

[1][2] He went to London in 1771 and became assistant to William Hunter in his anatomical work.

[1] In 1797, he was the first to demonstrate that a particular crystallizable substance exists in the urine and is precipitated from it by nitric acid.

[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1797.