Alexander_Cairncross_(economist)--John_Boyd_Orr,_1st_Baron_Boyd-Orr

Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross (11 February 1911 – 21 October 1998), known as Sir Alec Cairncross, was a British economist. He was the brother of the spy John Cairncross and father of journalist Frances Cairncross and public health engineer and epidemiologist Sandy Cairncross.