Maggie Chapman (born 27 June 1979) is a Scottish politician and lecturer who is a Scottish Green Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for North East Scotland. She was co-convenor of the Scottish Greens from November 2013 to August 2019, serving with Patrick Harvie, and was the party's lead candidate for the 2019 European election.

She was a councillor for the Leith Walk ward of The City of Edinburgh Council from 2007 to 2015 and represented the Scottish Greens on the Smith Commission for further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament.

Chapman was the Rector of the University of Aberdeen, having been elected in 2014, and again in 2018. Her term ended on 31 March 2021.

She was the lead Green candidate for the North East region at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, and was elected as one of eight Green MSPs.

Since 1 August 2025, she has been Rector of the University of Dundee.

Chapman was born in 1979 in Salisbury, Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Her family had moved from South Africa in 1978 for her father to take up the post of director at the college of music. She grew up there, educated at a mixed-race school, with the country having achieved independence from the United Kingdom as the Republic of Zimbabwe while she was a baby. Her mother was a nurse who worked as a theatre sister and midwife.

Chapman moved to Scotland to study Zoology at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 2001. She went on to complete a master's degree in Environmental Management at the University of Stirling in 2003, then returned to Edinburgh University to study for a PhD in Geography. In 2015, she clarified that she had not completed her doctoral studies. As a student, she had been an activist for Edinburgh University Students' Association.

Chapman has worked in the west of Scotland in Environmental Management, and as a community carer throughout Edinburgh.