Sylvester Rattray () was a Scottish medical writer.
Biography Rattray was a native of Angus, Scotland. He was descended from Sir Sylvester Rattray, of Rattray Castle, Perthshire, who was in 1463 one of the ambassadors sent to London to treat with Edward IV, and exerted great influence at the Scottish court.
Sylvester may have been son of a later Sylvester Rattray who had two sons, David and Sylvester. The latter is said to have been "bred to the church". On the title-page of the second book mentioned below he is, however, credited with a theological degree as well as with that of M.D.
He was author of (Glasgow, 1658), dedicated to Johannes Scotus. The was reprinted in (Nuremberg, 1662). Rattray's second book, , was dedicated to Dr. John Wedderburn (Glasgow, 1666).
In May 1652 Rattray married at Cupar, Fifeshire, "Ingells, King-gask's daughter".Lamont, Diary, 1810, p. 51
He had a son Sylvester, a student of medicine at Glasgow in 1680.
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