Kenneth F Maxcy

Kenneth F. Maxcy (1888–1966) was an American virologist. He was a Professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology from 1938 until 1954. He was an authority on rickettsial diseases and typhus.

In 1952, Maxcy chaired the committee of the National Resource Council that recommended the fluoridation of drinking water. He later served nine years as director of the Rockefeller Institute's International Health Division. He received the Sedgewick Memorial Medal in 1952, the highest honor of the American Public Health Association.