Angus Matheson (1 July 1912 – 2 November 1962) was the inaugural Professor of Celtic Languages and Literature at the University of Glasgow, a post he held from 1956 until his death in 1962.^[1][2]

Angus Matheson was born 1 July 1912 in Harris in the Outer Hebrides to Mary Murray from Lewis and Malcolm Matheson, a minister in the United Free Church.^[1][2] He grew up in Sollas, North Uist.^[3][4] His elder brother was the Gaelic scholar William Matheson, an ordained minister and Reader in Celtic at the University of Edinburgh.^[3]

He was educated at Inverness Royal Academy, followed by the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with an MA with first class honours in Celtic in 1934.^[1] He undertook further studies as a McCaig Scholar at University College Dublin, and at the University of Bonn.^[1]

On 19 December 1941, he married Sylvia Schofield, the writer and traveller, at Kingston and Surbiton Presbyterian Church.^[5] They divorced in 1950.^[5] He died on 2 November 1962.^{[citation needed]}