Wilson Carswell

John Wilson Carswell OBE FRCS (born 1937) is a Scottish physician who was one of the first medical researchers to identify HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

He graduated from the University of London with a MBBS in 1961, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1967. He worked as a consultant surgeon at Mulago Hospital, Kampala from 1968 to 1987 where he became a leading AIDS researcher in the country. He later served as medical advisor to the Government of South Africa, and worked in public health in the United States and Asia.

His experiences in Uganda, where he met Idi Amin, were an inspiration for the character Dr Garrigan in Giles Foden's novel The Last King of Scotland.

His son is the first elected UK Independence Party Member of Parliament Douglas Carswell.