Kenneth Crosswaithe Murray (1903 – 21 April 1972) better known as K.C. Murray was an English art curator and teacher. The second son of the chess historian H. J. R. Murray and his suffragette wife Kate Crosthwaite, Murray was an elder brother of educationalist and biographer Elisabeth Murray, and a grandson of Sir James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. He first studied at Balliol College, Oxford but later left in order to study art at the School of Arts and Crafts, Birmingham.