List of Famous people who died in 1938

Sir James Crichton-Browne MD FRS FRSE was a leading Scottish psychiatrist, neurologist, eugenicist and medical psychologist. He is known for studies on the relationship of mental illness to brain injury and for the development of public health policies in relation to mental health. Crichton-Browne's father was the asylum reformer Dr William A.F. Browne, a prominent member of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society and, from 1838 until 1857, the superintendent of the Crichton Royal at Dumfries where Crichton-Browne spent much of his childhood.

Otto Warburg, was a German-Jewish botanist. He was also a notable industrial agriculture expert, and president of the Zionist Organization from 1911 to 1921.

Christian Rohlfs was a German painter and printmaker, one of the important representatives of German expressionism.

Max Karl Werner Wien was a German physicist and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena. He was born in Königsberg, Prussia. He was a cousin of Nobel laureate Wilhelm Wien.

Arthur Bartholomew English was a British national who was the official hangman of Canada between 1912 and 1935.

Sir Leslie Probyn was an administrator for the British Empire.

Algernon Edwyn Burnaby of Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire, was an English landowner, soldier, and Justice of the Peace, and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. He was Master of the Quorn Hunt.

Lady Margaret Rachel Scott was a dominant player in early women's golf, who won the first three British Ladies Amateurs in 1893, 1894, and 1895.

Francis William George Gore was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.