Harold Burnell Carter, BVSc, DVSc (Hon), FRSE, AM; (3 January 1910 – 27 February 2005) was an Australian scientist whose work in the middle decades of the twentieth century at the CSIR (now CSIRO) - Australia's national scientific research organization - laid foundations for the scientific understanding of the biology of Merino fine wool upon which much of Australia's economy depended at the time.