Murray Ashby

Murray Ashby (12 May 1931 – 18 November 1990) was a New Zealand rower.

Ashby was born in 1931, the son of Edward (known as Ted Ashby) and Catherine Adele (née Gozar) Ashby, and the younger brother of Kerry Ashby. He was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School from 1944 to 1947, and was a member of the school's 1st XV rugby union team in 1946 and 1947, and rowing eight in the same two years.

Competing for Auckland's West End Rowing Club, in crews with his brother Kerry Ashby won New Zealand national championship titles in the men's eights in 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1963, the men's coxed four in 1953 and the men's double sculls in 1956.

In 1956, Murray and Kerry Ashby did a New Zealand Olympic trial in the men's double scull.

Ashby was also an accomplished rugby union player for the Grammar Old Boys club, and was a member of the teams that won the Gallaher Shield in 1951 and 1953.