Charles Vincent MacKay FRACP (3 May 1880 – 26 April 1953) was a noted Australian medical specialist and an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[2][3]

The son of Donald MacKay (1849–1934),^[4] and Eleanor (a.k.a. "Helen") MacKay (1855–1930), née Vincent,^[5][6] Charles Vincent MacKay was born at Woods Point, Victoria on 3 May 1880.^[7]

He married Rose Nita née Collins, née Mackay (1890–1973) in Marylebone, London, England in 1927.

Charles MacKay played VFL football while studying Medicine at Trinity College.^[8]

He graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne at the end of 1905.^[9]

Following his graduation, MacKay worked in several Melbourne hospitals, completing a Doctorate of Medicine by Thesis in 1910,^[10] and taking the role of medical superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital in 1911.^[11]

At the outbreak of World War I, MacKay joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in England,^[12] where he was twice Mentioned in Despatches. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel, he took command of the No 80 General Hospital in Salonika during the latter stages of the war.^[13]

MacKay remained in England for several years following the war;^[14][15] and, after returning to Australia, he served as medical assistant to the director of the Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra, in 1936, and as Acting Director in 1937.^[16]

MacKay was appointed as director of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria in 1939.^[17]

During World War II he was wartime executive medical officer of the Medical Equipment Control Committee, and after the war he joined the Cancer Institute as a secretary and later served as its executive medical officer.^[18]

He died at his residence on 26 April 1953.^[19]