Anna MacGillivray Macleod

Anna MacGillivray Macleod (15 May 1917 – 13 August 2004) was a Scottish biochemist and academic. She was a professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. She was the first female Professor of Brewing and Biochemistry in the world.

Born in Kirkhill, she was the daughter of the Rev. Alasdair MacGillivray Macleod and Margaret Ingram Sangster. Her family lineage traces to the Isle of Lewis, where her grandfather, Rev. George Macleod, was the Minister of Garrabost. Her father was born on Lewis. She was second cousin to politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Iain Norman Macleod. Her family belongs to the branch of Macleods of Pabbay and Uig.

Her father died at an early age. Her two brothers were both doctors of medicine: her elder brother was John George Macleod, editor of Davidson's Textbook of Medicine and the author of Clinical Examination, and her younger brother was Alasdair MacGillivray Macleod, a general practitioner in Linlithgow.

Anna Macleod was educated at Invergordon Academy and Edinburgh Ladies' College. She graduated from Edinburgh University with a Bachelor of Science in botany. She joined the faculty of Heriot-Watt University in 1945, where she remained until her retirement in 1977. She returned in 1951 to Edinburgh University to study for her PhD. In the late 1960s, she was awarded a Doctor of Science, from Edinburgh University, for a thesis on the germination of barley.

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