Major-General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh was a British Army officer and Surveyor General of India who worked in the Great Trigonometrical Survey. He served under Sir George Everest and succeeded him in 1843. Waugh established a gridiron system of traverses for covering northern India. Waugh is credited with naming the peak of Mount Everest.
- Occupation
- engineer, geographer, surveyor, geodesist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 3, 1810
- Died
- February 21, 1878
