Margaret Fay Shaw

Margaret Fay Shaw
Born9 November 1903
Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died11 December 2004 (aged 101)
Fort William, Scotland
NationalityAmerican, British
Occupation(s)Photographer and folklorist
Known forPhotographs and folklore collection in the Hebrides
Spouse
(m. 1935; died 1996)

Margaret Fay Shaw (9 November 1903 – 11 December 2004) was a pioneering Scottish-American ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, and scholar of Celtic studies. She is best known for her meticulous work as a folk song and folklore collector among Scottish Gaelic-speakers in the Hebrides, Canadian Gaelic-speaking communities in Nova Scotia, and among Connaught Irish speakers in the Aran Islands.