Murdo Macdonald (b. 1955) is Emeritus Professor of History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee. He is an Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literature.
Macdonald was editor of Edinburgh Review from 1990 - 1994. He was taught by George Elder Davie at the University of Edinburgh and has worked as an art critic and an academic. He is author of Scottish Art in Thames and Hudson's World of Art series (2000, 2021), Patrick Geddes' Intellectual Origins (2020), and Ruskin's Triangle (2021).