Ernest Forrester Paton (1891–1970), also known by the Tamil name Chinnannan, was a Scottish United Free Church medical missionary to Pune, part of then-Bombay Presidency. He was the co-founder of Christukula Ashram, the first Protestant Christian Ashram in India, along with , a fellow missionary and Tamilian convert to Christianity, at Tirupattur of North Arcot, Tamil Nadu—part of then-Madras Presidency in South India.