Paul Allen Ebert (August 11, 1932 – April 21, 2009) was an American surgeon and athlete. He had been Chairman of the Departments of Surgery at both Cornell University Medical College and the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, as well as the President of the American College of Cardiology, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Society of University Surgeons, and the Western Thoracic Surgical Association. Before earning his medical degree, he was an All-American in both baseball and basketball at the Ohio State University. He was born in Columbus, Ohio.

Ebert received his M.D. degree from Ohio State University in 1958. He had internship and residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital under Alfred Blalock, and then spent two years as a Senior Assistant Surgeon at the National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. He specialized in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery.

Ebert became a professor of surgery at Duke University Medical Center. From 1971 to 1975 he was Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Cornell University Medical College and from 1975 to 1986 he was Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. He was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons since 1968, and assumed the directorship of the college in November 1986.^[2]

Ebert was the 1989 recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Award.^{[citation needed]}