Vincent Megaw is a British-born Australian archaeologist with research interests focussing on the archaeology and anthropology of art and musical instruments, Australasian prehistory and proto history. Together with his wife, the late M. Ruth Megaw, he has published extensively, notably on the art of the European pre-Roman Iron Age. In the 1960s he was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in European Iron Age Archaeology at the University of Sydney. From 1971 to 1982 he was Chair of Archaeology and Head of Department at Leicester University. Other appointments have included Visiting Professorship at the University of Edinburgh and in 2004 was made a Member of the Order of Australia.