todd recep akdağ, turkish health minister eric anson, new zealand's first specialist anaesthetist thomas armitage, british physician and founder of the royal national institute of blind people william bowman, ophthalmic surgeon, helped found ophthalmological society of the united kingdom sir james black, nobel prize laureate for medicine in 1988 for work leading to the development of propranolol and cimetidine william bowman, ophthalmic surgeon, helped found ophthalmological society of the united kingdom richard bright, discoverer of bright's disease russell brock, baron brock, pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon sir astley cooper, discoverer of the cooper's ligaments of the breasts john leonard dawson, serjeant surgeon to the royal household of the united kingdom richard doll, epidemiologist and physiologist; established link between smoking and cancer havelock ellis, physician, sexual psychologist and social reformer reita faria, indian model and miss world 1966 william fergusson, surgeon who introduced the practice of conservative amputation david ferrier, pioneering experimental neurologist abraham pineo gesner, surgeon and inventor of kerosene refining john hilton, great anatomist and surgeon thomas hodgkin, discoverer of hodgkin's lymphoma sir frederick hopkins, discoverer of vitamins takaki kanehiro, japanese naval doctor, first person to discover the link between beriberi and diet john keats, writer joseph lister, pioneer of aseptic surgery w. somerset maugham, playwright, novelist, short story writer alex mowat, professor of paediatric hepatology humphry osmond, psychiatrist who worked with psychedelic drugs and coined the term david owen, labour foreign secretary and founder of the social democratic party sir alfred poland, the first to describe poland syndrome sir andrew pollard, chief investigator on the oxford–astrazeneca covid-19 vaccine dame cecily saunders, nurse, physician and social worker who developed the concept of the hospice and was a pioneer of palliative care audrey smith, cryobiologist who discovered the use of glycerol to protect human red blood cells during freezing jeffrey tate, conductor max theiler, virologist, awarded the 1951 nobel prize in physiology or medicine for developing a vaccine for yellow fever sheo bhagwan tibrewal, orthopedic surgeon and padma shri awardee robert bentley todd, known for discovering and describing the condition postictal paralysis now known as todd's palsy gerard folliott vaughan, uk psychiatrist, who became a politician and minister of state during margaret thatcher's government sir samuel wilks, pathologist claire windsor, wife of the earl of ulster and physician by profession fiona wood am, plastic surgeon, australian of the year 2005