Charles Blackburn

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn (22 April 1874 – 20 July 1972) was an Australian university chancellor and physician. Blackburn was born in Greenhithe, Kent, England, to the cleric and entomologist Thomas Blackburn and his wife Jessie Ann, née Wood. Mainly known as a long-serving chancellor (1941–1964) and member of the Senate of the University of Sydney, serving on the University Senate from 1919 to 1964. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1932–1935. He was also a councillor of the Australian Medical Association and the Association of Physicians of Australasia.

Blackburn died in 1972 in the Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill, at the age of 98.