Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, OBE, JP, MSc., MD, MPH, FRCP (born 1947 in Hong Kong) is the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Chan was elected by the Executive Board of the WHO on 8 November 2006, and was endorsed in a special meeting of the World Health Assembly on the following day. Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994-2003), …

Ian Renwick McWhinney, OC, FRCGP, FCFP, FRCP, (born October 11, 1926) is a Canadian physician and academic known as the "Father of Family Medicine" for his work in creating a family medicine program at the University of Western Ontario. Born in Burnley, England, he studied at Cheltenham College from 1940 to 1944. During World War II, he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps. After the war, he studied at Clare College, Cambridge and at St.

Ragavendra R Baliga, MD, MBA, FACC, FRCP (Edin). He is the Director & Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, Ohio State University Hospital East, Columbus, OH. He is well known for his contributions to medical education (he published his first book 200 Clinical Cases in Medicine when he was just 33 years old) and is the author of several books including 250 Cases in Medicine, Elsevier and Self-Assessment in Clinical Medicine, W.B. Saunders.

Henry Bence Jones (December 31, 1813 - April 20, 1873), English physician and chemist, was born at Thorington Hall, Suffolk, the son of an officer in the Dragoon guards. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. Subsequently he studied medicine at St George's Hospital, and chemistry at University College, London. In 1841 he went to Giessen in Germany to work at chemistry with Liebig. Besides becoming a fellow, and afterwards senior censor, …

Sir Charles Scarborough, MP, FRS, FRCP (1615-1694), was an English physician and mathematician. Scarborough was born in 1615, and educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, 1637, MA, 1640) and Merton College, Oxford (MD, 1646). While at Oxford he was a student of William Harvey, and the two would become close friends. Scarborough was also tutor to Christopher Wren, who was for a time his assistant.

Dr Barbara Mary Ansell CBE, MD, FRCP, FRCS (1923, Warwick, Warwickshire, England - September 14, 2001) was the world-renowned UK founder of paediatric rheumatology. Educated at King's High School for Girls in Warwick, Barbara Ansell qualified at Birmingham in 1946 and did her post-graduate training at Hammersmith. In 1951 she was appointed as registrar to Eric Bywaters at the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Taplow, in Buckinghamshire, …

Julius Dreschfeld was a leading British physician and pathologist. Born in Bavaria of Jewish parents, he was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and Manchester Royal School of Medicine. After being awarded an MD in Würzburg in 1864, he became a surgeon in the Bavarian Army. He settled in Manchester in 1869 and was on the staff of Manchester Royal Infirmary, 1873-1907; he was elected FRCP, 1883.

Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman K.St.J FRS FRCP (21 February 1862 - 11 April 1947) was a British medical doctor and Senior Medical officer in the Ministry of Health. Emeritus Professor on Public Health, Westminster Hospital. Member of London County Council for Hampstead. He was the eldest son of Rev Arthur Charles Copeman (1824 - 1896), Vicar of St Andrew's Norwich, Hon Cannon of Norwich Cathedral, and Chairman of the Board of Management of Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

Tyndale John Rendle-Short AM FRCP is a British-Australian paediatrician. Born in England, he moved from his home in Sheffield to Australia in 1961. He was appointed Foundation Professor of Child Health at the University of Queensland in 1961. He is now a Professor Emeritus. In 1981 he was awarded the Advance Australia Award for work on autism, and in 1995 was created a Member of the Order of Australia. He is a widower, his late wife Angel died in February 2006, …

Sir Percy Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke KBE, CMG, MC, MD, FRCP, DPH, DTM&H, CStJ Barrister at Law; (1893–1976). Director of Medical Services, Hong Kong, 1937–1943, and Governor of the Seychelles, 1947–1951.

Morag Crichton Timbury, MD, PhD, FRSE, FRCP is a Scottish Medical Virologist and Bacteriologist and author. She was raised in Glasgow where she attended St. Bride's High School, before studying medicine at Glasgow University. She was the Director of the British Central Public Health Laboratory (PHLS) from 1988 until 1995. She was married to Gerald Charles Timbury (deceased 1985, previously Dean of Undergraduate Medicine, the Univerity of Glasgow, …

John Herbert Humphrey CBE FRS FRCP (16 December 1915 – 25 December 1987) was a British bacteriologist and immunologist. Educated at Winchester School, and Trinity College, Cambridge. There he met his wife Janet, the daughter of Nobel-prize winning physiologist Archibald Hill. They had five children and brought up Humphrey's nephew and niece after the death of Humphrey's brother. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1963.

Dr David Anthony Hilton Yates MD, FRCP, known as Anthony Yates (born 15 August 1930, died 13 September 2004) was an English rheumatologist and consultant, president of the British Association for Rheumatology and of the Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.