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Keith Rodney Dumbell (2 October 1922 – May 2018) was a British virologist who worked on research and eradication of smallpox.

Dumbell was a PhD student of Alan Downie in the University of Liverpool.

Dumbell was Head of the Virology Department at St Mary's Hospital, London, and on this position one of the key international experts on smallpox. He was active in the smallpox eradication campaign, and among the signatories of the Declaration of global eradication of smallpox in 1980. He was head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Poxvirus Research at the St Mary's Hospital between 1969 and 1981. He was a member of the Global Commission and several expert groups on poxvirus infections.

Following the 1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom, Dumbell served as an expert witness.

After the death of his first wife, Dumbell remarried a South African woman and moved to Cape Town, South Africa, in the mid-1980s. He joined University of Cape Town in the mid-1980s, where he retired. As a Professor Emeritus of medical virology, he gave advice to post-graduate students.

Dumbell died in Cape Town in late March 2018 from natural causes. He was interned on 6th June 2018.