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Agnes Forbes Blackadder Savill (4 December 1875 – 12 May 1964) was a Scottish medical doctor. Blackadder became the first female graduate of the University of St Andrews when she gained her M.A. degree on 29 March 1895. She was the first consultant dermatologist to be appointed in 1907 at St. John's Hospital, an appointment which was also notable as one of the first appointments of a woman consultant at a hospital that was not exclusively for women. During World War I, she served as a radiographer at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont in France and pioneered radiography of gangrene.

Early life
Agnes Blackadder was born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, on 4 December 1875, the daughter of Robert Blackadder, a Dundee architect and engineer. She spent most of her early life around Dundee, living in Bellevue, West Ferry and attending the High School of Dundee.

Blackadder gained her M.A. degree from the University of St Andrews in 1895,  becoming the first female graduate of the University. She continued her education at the University of Glasgow where she gained both MBChb (1898) and M.D. (1901). Whilst in Glasgow, she won the first prize in Practical Pathology in 1896 and received First Class Certificates in Materia Medica, Surgery, Midwifery, Ophthalmology and Insanity and a Second Class Certificate in Anatomy. After graduating, she married Dr. Thomas Dixon Savill at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Forfarshire in 1901.