William Ritchie Russell CBE FRSE (7 February 1903 – 8 December 1980) was a 20th-century Scottish neurologist.
He graduated with an MB ChB in 1926 and then became a physician and house surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Lauriston Place.
In the Second World War he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps at the Military Hospital for Head Injuries in Oxford and as Consultant Neurologist to the forces in the Middle East, rising to the rank of Brigadier.
[7] Over and above his interests in brain surgery he became an expert in polio following the post-war epidemic which began in Britain after the war.
[3] He helped to design a block of flats for the elderly, named Ritchie Court (off Banbury Road in Oxford) in his honour.