the royal college of general practitioners john abernethy – surgeon robert d. acland – surgeon, pioneer in plastic and reconstructive microsurgery joseph adams – surgeon and pathologist christopher addison, 1st viscount addison – politician george augustus auden – professor of public health john badley – surgeon edward bancroft – physician and double agent in the american revolution gopal baratham – author and neurosurgeon gilbert barling – former vice-chancellor of the university of birmingham thomas john barnardo – philanthropist frederick batten – neurologist and paediatrician hannah billig – famous wartime doctor william blizard – surgeon george bodington – pulmonary specialist robert bridges – poet and holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913 henry edmund gaskin boyle – anaesthetist alfred james broomhall – medical missionary george busk – surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist william carr – former director of the royal australian navy's naval medical services graham chapman – comedian; one of the six members of the surreal comedy group monty python anjem choudary – islamist, founder of al-muhajiroun and islam4uk and a solicitor, convicted of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, namely the islamic state of iraq and the levant, under the terrorism act 2000 william job collins – surgeon and politician brian colvin – haematologist albert ruskin cook – medical missionary john desmond cronin – politician and surgeon tim crow – psychiatrist thomas blizard curling – surgeon john langdon down – first to describe down syndrome, a genetic disorder named after him horace evans, 1st baron evans - welsh gp, personal physician to king george vi pamela evans – gp and author john fenning – british doctor and olympic gold medallist john freke – first ophthalmic surgeon archibald garrod – the physician first to appreciate the importance of biochemistry in medicine richard gordon – screenwriter and novelist martin gore cbe - professor of medical oncology major greenwood – epidemiologist and statistician sir wilfred grenfell, kcmg, – medical missionary gordon hamilton-fairley – oncologist anthony hamilton-smith, 3rd baron colwyn – politician william harvey – described circulation charles hill, baron hill of luton – politician and former chairman of the bbc james hinton – surgeon and author ebbe hoff – founding director of the virginia division of substance abuse eric john holborow – physician and immunologist, known for his pioneering research on autoimmunity jonathan hutchinson – ophthalmologist john hughlings jackson – neurologist john hunt, baron hunt of fawley – british gp, co-founder of the royal college of general practitioners john hunter – surgeon and anatomist. the hunterian society is named in his honour. donald mcintosh johnson – author and politician william lawrence – surgeon, a founder of british ophthalmology william elford leach – english zoologist and marine biologist john leech – caricaturist irene leigh – dermatologist suzy lishman – former president of the royal college of pathologists william john little – surgeon, pioneer of orthopaedic surgery martyn lloyd-jones – evangelical christian religious leader morell mackenzie – pioneer of laryngology johann malawana – leader of bma junior doctors committee, trade unionist william marsden – surgeon, founder of the royal free and marsden hospitals peter william mathieson – president of the university of hong kong john preston maxwell – medical missionary parveen kumar – co-author of world renowned medical textbook 'kumar and clarke's', former president of the british medical association and the royal society of medicine. lectures occasionally at the medical school. robert morrison – medical missionary richard owen – english biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist james parkinson – political activist and first to describe parkinson's disease sir james paget – surgeon and founder of scientific medical pathology jonathan pereira – pharmacologist percivall pott – english surgeon, founder of orthopaedy sir bentley purchase – coroner, involved in operation mincemeat peter j. ratcliffe – british nobel laureate physician-scientist reza razavi – vice president (research) at king's college london and director of the king’s wellcome trust epsrc centre for medical engineering w. h. r. rivers – psychiatrist, psychiatric anthropologist sir ronald ross – first british nobel laureate, known for his work on the transmission of malaria martine rothblatt – entrepreneur, author, founder of united therapeutics and sirius radio tareq suheimat – jordanian physician, military general and statesman william scovell savory – surgeon jay sean – singer-song writer liz shore – former deputy chief medical officer g. spencer-brown – mathematician frederick howard taylor – medical missionary herbert hudson taylor – medical missionary hudson taylor – medical missionary roger taylor – drummer of the band queen sir frederick treves, 1st baronet – surgeon daniel hack tuke – expert on mental illness william turner – anatomist and former principal of the university of edinburgh john waterlow – british physiologist hugh watkins – cardiologist william james erasmus wilson – surgeon peter wingfield – actor robert winston – gynaecologist and politician arthur wint – olympic gold medallist adeline yen mah – author and physician fictional alumni harold legg – doctor in the british soap opera eastenders from 1985 to 1997, making guest appearances in 2000 and 2004. dr. watson – sherlock holmes's companion and "biographer": not only did the two first meet in the pathology laboratories in 1881, but watson studied and met his friend stamford (who was watson's "dresser" – the equivalent nowadays of the surgical houseman) at st. bartholomew's hospital in the mid/late 1870s.