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Syed Muhammad Sultan: professor of psychiatry who helped modernise mental health services in Pakistan
August 19, 2026
Elizabeth Greenhall: family planning pioneer who set up sexual health clinics in secondary schools
August 19, 2026
András Barabás: Hungarian revolutionary who fled Soviet repression and became a renowned vascular surgeon
August 19, 2026
Chris Cutting: one of the first consultants in the newly formed specialty of emergency medicine
August 19, 2026
James Friend: respiratory specialist who helped usher in smoke-free legislation
August 11, 2026
Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman Bhuiyan
August 11, 2026
Srivathsan Ravindran
August 11, 2026
Maria do Rosário Carvalho Torres
August 10, 2026
Mike Bryson
August 10, 2026
Martyn Webster: plastic surgeon who pioneered techniques in breast reconstruction and microsurgery
August 6, 2026
Clair du Boulay: straight talking educationalist and pathologist
August 6, 2026
Pio Mangion
July 31, 2026
Diana Sims
July 31, 2026
Nicholas Alexander
July 31, 2026
Peter Howie: professor of obstetrics and gynaecology and dean of Dundee medical school
July 30, 2026
Anneke Chu
July 30, 2026
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
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