Margaret Fairlie FRCOG FRCSE (1891–1963) was a Scottish academic and gynaecologist. Fairlie spent most of her career working at Dundee Royal Infirmary and teaching at the medical school at University College, Dundee (later Queen's College, Dundee). In 1940 she became the first woman to hold a professorial chair in Scotland.
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Early life and education
Margaret Fairlie was born in 1891. Her parents were James Fairlie and his wife Marjory Mill Moug. She grew up at West Balmirmer Farm, Angus. She was educated at Arbirlot Public School, the Harris Academy in Dundee, and Skerry's College. From 1910 to 1915 she studied at the University of St Andrews School of Medicine and the University College, Dundee. After graduating with her MBChB from the University of St Andrews, she held various medical posts in Dundee, Perth, and Edinburgh, and at Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester, where she trained in her specialism.