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John Scott Ferguson: surgeon who battled locusts, crocodiles, and single parenthood while working in Sudan

July 17, 2026

John Yudkin: global health campaigner and diehard Arsenal fan

July 17, 2026

Robert Goodman: professor of psychiatry whose Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for children with mental health problems has been widely used

July 16, 2026

Martin Savage: paediatric endocrinologist who pioneered collaboration between child and adult services

July 16, 2026

Peter Lloyd Amlot

July 10, 2026

Anannya Kar

July 10, 2026

Roland Martin Littlewood

July 10, 2026

Saboor Ahmed Mir

July 10, 2026

Peter Wells

July 9, 2026

Helen Marston

June 29, 2026

Richard Lehman: GP and BMJ columnist whose witty weekly journal review was a hit with readers

June 29, 2026

Eugene Braunwald: father of modern cardiology who came up with the principle “time is muscle”

June 29, 2026

David Williams

June 29, 2026

Jean Baker

June 29, 2026

Yogendra Bhakta Shrestha

June 29, 2026

Gale Pearson

June 29, 2026

Bill MacGowan

June 25, 2026

Carol Kirkpatrick

June 25, 2026

David Bryson

June 25, 2026

Anna McCormick: epidemiologist who tracked AIDS cases in the early years of the epidemic

June 25, 2026

Ann Nisbet-Smith

June 19, 2026

Stephen Dawson

June 19, 2026

Joyce Watson

June 19, 2026

Valerie Morgan

June 19, 2026

Rupert Kipping

June 18, 2026

Elizabeth Shaw

June 18, 2026

Oliver Adebayo: trauma and orthopaedic surgeon who spoke out for surgical trainees during the pandemic

June 15, 2026

Eric Edwards

June 5, 2026

Nicholas MacCarthy

June 5, 2026

David Lord

June 5, 2026

Ann Barrett: oncologist who pioneered multidisciplinary teamwork

June 5, 2026

John Meecham

June 5, 2026

Alasdair Fraser: consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who fought to preserve the character of St Mary’s medical school

June 5, 2026

Paul Knapman: central London coroner who investigated deaths of the rich and famous

June 2, 2026

Joseph Ana: surgeon and GP who overhauled healthcare in Nigeria

May 28, 2026

Moira Brimacombe: GP, psychotherapist, and writer of poetry

May 28, 2026

Simon Court

May 22, 2026

Stuart Gemmell McAlpine

May 22, 2026

Dumbor Ngaage: surgeon who led trial on speeding up rehabilitation for postoperative cardiac patients

May 21, 2026

Fiona Haslam: doctor who researched the depiction of medicine in art and literature

May 21, 2026

Geraint Morgan Jeremiah

May 15, 2026

Edward Tierney

May 15, 2026

Clement Nwokolo Ugwu

May 14, 2026

Kevin Hardinge

May 14, 2026

John Roderick Bennett

May 7, 2026

Brian Ormston

May 7, 2026

Mohammad Azizar Rahman

May 6, 2026

Michael Johannes Göpfert

May 6, 2026

Kenneth Davison

May 5, 2026

Mohammad Zafar Equabal

May 5, 2026

Rebecca Barton Dunn

April 24, 2026

Howard Tucker: holder of the Guinness World Record for oldest practising doctor and an unlikely TikTok star

April 24, 2026

Ivan George Cox

April 23, 2026

Colin Greenhill Barnes

April 23, 2026

Ahilya Noone: public health expert who led work on hospital associated infection in Scotland

April 22, 2026

Jennifer Rosemary Anderson

April 22, 2026

John Harkness: GP and public health officer who carried out a comprehensive study of community diabetes

April 21, 2026

Nick White: tropical diseases expert who led development of artemisinin to tackle resistance to standard malaria treatment

April 21, 2026

Harold Ellis: doyen of surgery and clinical anatomy, who loved sharing anecdotes from the operating theatre

April 9, 2026

Lelia Duley: epidemiologist whose eclampsia trials transformed maternal health worldwide

April 8, 2026

Gil Thompson: showed, despite fierce opposition, that high cholesterol leads to heart disease

April 8, 2026

Ken Taylor: cardiothoracic surgeon who set up the world’s first heart valve registry

April 7, 2026

Ian Manson: obstetrician and early pioneer of laparoscopy

April 2, 2026

John Robert Martin

April 2, 2026

Charles Price: public health expert who advised Europe on health inequalities

April 2, 2026

Neville Leon Gittleson

April 1, 2026

Sami Zahi Saba

April 1, 2026

Iain Ruairidh Cameron Swan

March 31, 2026

Nigel Starey

March 31, 2026

Ali Ashraf: founder of surgical training in Bangladesh

March 25, 2026

Richard Whittington: outspoken coroner who investigated the last recorded death from smallpox

March 24, 2026

Ralph Ross Russell: pioneer of stroke medicine and astute diagnostician

March 20, 2026

Leo Stimmler

March 20, 2026

Sheila May Arnold

March 19, 2026

Ian Dunlop Melville

March 18, 2026

Joyce Alexander

March 18, 2026

Edwin Charles Ashby

March 17, 2026

Jack Eyton-Jones

March 17, 2026

Charles Polkey: neurosurgeon and pioneer of the surgical treatment of epilepsy

March 6, 2026

Bill Foege: leader in smallpox eradication and campaigner for global health equity

March 5, 2026

William Stewart Taor

March 5, 2026

Claude Seng

March 5, 2026

Alexander Graeme Yule

March 4, 2026

Olivia Guly

March 4, 2026

William Stuart Adams Smellie

March 3, 2026

Michael Woods Haslett

March 3, 2026

Frances Olwen Wilson

March 2, 2026

Michael F Sudlow

March 2, 2026

Tessa Richards: BMJ editor who championed patients

February 26, 2026

Mike Morgan: respiratory physician and researcher who became the first NHS “respiratory tsar”

February 24, 2026

David Richard Elliott

February 19, 2026

Jeremy Bradbrooke

February 19, 2026

James Michael Hirons

February 18, 2026

Daniel James Peter Money

February 18, 2026

Roger James Wolstenholme

February 17, 2026

Abdosamad Taghizadeh

February 17, 2026

Alex Poteliakhoff: GP and anti-war campaigner

February 14, 2026

James Robert Doty: neurosurgeon, entrepreneur, and proponent of altruism whose memoir inspired a K pop song

February 14, 2026

Pam Zinkin: paediatrician who helped rebuild Mozambique’s post-colonial health system

February 12, 2026

Aggrey Burke: psychiatrist who exposed racial bias in medical school admissions

February 12, 2026
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