Hamish Watson

Hamish Watson (26 June 1923 – 23 May 2001) was a Scottish paediatrician who was a pioneer in paediatric cardiac catheterisation. Watson was most notable for being an authority on the congenital heart defect, Ebstein's anomaly. He was educated at George Watson's School before studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, from where he graduated with an MB ChB and an MD in 1945.

In 1951, he married Lesley Wood and had two daughters and a son. In 1960 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and in 1976 was elected a member of the Aesculapian club. Watson was also a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and in 1987, joint chairman of the British Cardiac Society and a trustee of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.