Francis James Gillen

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Francis James Gillen
Born	(1855-10-28)28 October 1855 Little Para, South Australia
Died	5 June 1912(1912-06-05) (aged 56) Woodville, South Australia
Nationality	Australian
Scientific career
Fields	Anthropologist, ethnologist

Francis James Gillen (28 October 1855 – 5 June 1912), also known as Frank Gillen and F. J. Gillen, was an early Australian anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his work with W. Baldwin Spencer, including their seminal work The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899). They both worked in central Australia, where Gillen was employed as a telegraph station master, with the Arrernte people and other Indigenous Australians.