Morgan McElligott (21 June 1925 – 16 February 2016) was an Irish rower and cardiologist.^[1][2] He competed in the men's eight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.^[3][4]

McElligott was born in Rathdown, Dublin in 1925.^[1] He gained a medical degree while studying at the University College Dublin.^[1] In 1948, he was part of the team that won the All-Ireland Senior Rowing Championship.^[5] At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, McElligott was part of the Irish team that competed in the men's eight.^[6]

Two years after the Olympics, he started his medical career in Dublin, and moved to London three years after that.^[1] After six years later, McElligott returned to Ireland, becoming a consultant at Portiuncula Hospital.^[1] He spent more than three decades working at the hospital,^[7] where he worked in cardiology and helped to found the very first cardiac care unit in Portiuncula.^[1]

In 1989, McElligott left Portiuncula and went to Baghdad with his wife,^[5] with both of them developing the Ibn Al-Bitar Hospital.^[1] Due to the first Gulf War, they both left Iraq, moving to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.^[5] In Saudi Arabia he was the chief of internal medicine for the Royal College of Surgeons.^[1] After nearly two years in Saudi Arabia, he retired and returned to Ireland with his wife.^[4]

In 2012, McElligott was one of the eleven surviving members of Ireland's 1948 Summer Olympics team,^[8] who were all honoured at a ceremony in Dublin.^[9]