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Alisdair Macdonald (1940–2007) was a British press photographer who worked for 26 years with the Daily Mirror. He took a seven-year break to help launch the first full-colour national newspaper Today.

In 1963, Macdonald travelled with the Beatles to Paris to document their shows at the Olympia. He would regularly photograph the band, up to and beyond their breakup in 1970.

In 1989, he won first place in the Humour category of the World Press Photo contest for his photograph of a workman leaving the scene of a burst water main.