Ella Macknight

Dame Ella Annie Noble Macknight, DBE, MRCOG, FRCOG, FAMA, FAGO (7 August 1904, Urana, New South Wales, Australia – 1 April 1997, Malvern, Victoria, Australia) was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who worked at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. She was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1969 for services to medicine.

She was educated privately and later attended Toorak College. She earned her MB/BS in 1928 from the University of Melbourne, where she was resident from 1923 at Janet Clarke Hall, at that time still the women's section of Trinity College.[1] After qualifying as an obstetrician and gynaecologist (MD, 1931, DGO 1936), she was associated with the Queen Victoria Hospital from 1935-77. Her appointments included honorary obstetrician and gynaecologist from 1935-64; vice-president of the Committee of Management for 1963-71 and president from 1971-77.

She was president of the Council of the Royal College of Gynaecologists from 1970-72 and served as chairmen of the Blood Transfusion Committee, Victorian Division of the Red Cross Society from 1964-70 and a member of the Executive of the Victorian Division during the same period.