Donald John Tugby, born 27 July 1920, was an anthropologist who taught anthropology at the University of Queensland from 1958 to 1986. Prior to that he had held a position as an ethnologist at the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne. He received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, a PhD from the Australian National University and a Diploma of Psychology from the University of Queensland (1973). He introduced statistics to archaeology and initiated extensive archaeological fieldwork on North Stradbroke Island. He conducted research relating to peoples in Indonesia, Malaysia and Dutch New Guinea. He was particularly interested in the Mandailing (also known as Mandailing Batak) people of Sumatra, and published the results of his research in a book Cultural change and identity : Mandailing immigrants in Western Malaysia (1977). He was also a member of the UQ choir and an advisor on world music. He was married to Elise Tugby, a geography lecturer at the University of Queensland. Tugby died on 7 September 2015 in Brisbane.