Edith Kate Dawson MBE FRCSEd FRCPEd (1886–1983) was a pathologist who received a DSc for a thesis on sarcoma in 1970 (aged 84) and an MBE in 1968. Dawson carried out her research at both the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (undertaking much of her research at Surgeons' Hall) and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.