| Honorific Prefix: | Sir |
| Arnold Burgen | |
| Honorific Suffix: | FRS |
| Birth Name: | Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen |
| Birth Date: | 1922 3, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Clapton, London, England |
| Fields: | Pharmacology |
| Workplaces: | McGill University University of Cambridge |
| Alma Mater: | Middlesex Hospital Medical School |
| Notable Students: | |
| Spouse: | Olga Kennard |
Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen FRS (20 March 1922 – 26 May 2022) was a British physician, pharmacologist, academic and university administrator. He was Master of Darwin College, Cambridge,[1] from 1982–89, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of The University of Cambridge from 1985–89, and founding President of the Academia Europæa.
Burgen was born in Clapton, East London. He attended Christ's College Finchley, a grammar school in Finchley, north London. He was subsequently a student at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School beginning in 1945; (now part of University College, London) before going on to become a Doctor of Medicine in 1950.[2]
Burgen was married to British crystallographer Olga Kennard. He died on 26 May 2022, at the age of 100.[3]
Burgen was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society in 1964,[4] Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1969, and was knighted in the 1976 New Year Honours. Burgen was elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 1987.[5] He became an Honorary Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, in 1989. He was founding President and praesis perpetua honoris causa of Academia Europaea.