Frederick Creighton Wellman (born on January 3, 1873 near Kansas City, Missouri; died September 3, 1960 Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American physician specialising in tropical medicine, scientist, author, playwright, teacher, artist and engineer.
As an author he wrote under the pseudonyms Cyril Kay-Scott and Richard Irving Carson.
His colorful life led to the epithet "the Casanova of Tropical Medicine".