Frank Watson Elgee (born 8 November 1880 in North Ormesby (Middlesbrough) Yorkshire, England) was a published archaeologist, geologist and naturalist. He wrote several books on the North York Moors such as The Moorlands of North-Eastern Yorkshire (1912), The Romans in Cleveland (1923) and Early Man in North East Yorkshire (1930). In 1933 Leeds University conferred on him an Honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy.