Angus Mackay (born 1939 in Lima, Peru) is a Scottish historian and Hispanist, specialising in Later Medieval Spain. Having spent four years as a lecturer in history at the University of Reading, most of his career has been at University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy in 1970 for his thesis, . He became Professor of Medieval History there in 1986, taking over the Chair from his mentor, Denys Hay. He is considered, together with Raymond Carr and John Elliott, a major figure in developing Spanish historiography.