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Morag Crichton Timbury, MBChB, MD, PhD, FRCPath, FRSE, FRCP (born 1930) is a Scottish medical virologist, bacteriologist and science writer.

Morag McCulloch was raised in Glasgow where she attended St. Bride's High School, before studying medicine at University of Glasgow. She graduated from the University of Glasgow MB, ChB (1953), MD (1960) and PhD (1976). She was Maurice Bloch Research Fellow in Virology at the Regional Virus Laboratory at Ruchill Hospital from 1960 to 1963 and Lecturer in Bacteriology from 1963 to 1965, and then Senior Lecturer (until 1976) and Reader (from 1976 to 1978) in Virology.

She was titular Professor of Bacteriology and William Teacher Lecturer from 1978 to 1988 at the University of Glasgow and was Head of the Department of Bacteriology at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. In 1988, Timbury was appointed Director of the Central Public Health Laboratory of the Public Health Laboratory Service, and she held that position until 1995.

Dr Crichton Timbury was a visiting Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, and in Brisbane, Australia.

She was married to Gerald Charles Timbury (deceased 1985, previously Dean of Undergraduate Medicine, the University of Glasgow, and Consultant Psychiatrist and Physician Superintendent, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow) and has one daughter, Judith.

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