Cecil Kent Drinker (March 17, 1887 – April 19, 1956) was an American physician and founder of the Harvard School of Public Health. He was professor at Harvard School of Public Health from 1923 till 1935. Drinker was involved in the effect of radium on the women painting luminous dials. Drinker's father was railroad man and Lehigh University president Henry Sturgis Drinker; his siblings included lawyer and musicologist Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr., industrial hygienist Philip Drinker and biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen.
Cecil Kent Drinker
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portrait of Cecil Kent Drinker as a child, by his aunt Cecilia Beaux, 1891
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| Born | 17 March 1887  Philadelphia |
| Died | 14 April 1956 (aged 69) Falmouth |
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| Occupation | Physician, physiologist |
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| Spouse(s) | Katherine Rotan Drinker |
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Drinker was married to Katherine Rotan Drinker.
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