William Burke (1792 - January 28, 1829) was an Irish-Scots serial killer who, along with William Hare committed a notorious series of murders in Edinburgh in the 19th century. Burke was born in Urney, County Tyrone. After trying his hand at a variety of trades there and serving as an officer's servant in the Donegal Militia, he left his wife and two children in Ireland and emigrated to Scotland about 1817, working as a navvy for the Union Canal.

Dr Benjamin Bell (1749 - 1806) was a Scottish surgeon. Bell was born in Dumfries and educated in that town. His family owned Blackett House in Middlebie Parish (Dumfriesshire), which Bell was later to sell to fund the education of himself and his family. He became an apprentice to a surgeon in Dumfries, before moving to Edinburgh in [1766] to study medicine at the University there under the tutelage of Alexander Monro (Secundus; 1733 - 1817), …

John Lizars (c. 1787-1860) was a Scottish surgeon. He was professor of surgery at Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, who performed the first ovariotomy in Britain in 1825. Besides authoring an early work on the dangers of tobacco, "The Use and Abuse of Tobacco", Lizars published a number of important and beautifully illustrated anatomical texts in the early nineteenth century.

James S. Douglas (1837-1918) was born in Quebec City. His Scottish-born father, Dr. James Douglas, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, had earned the reputation of being the fastest surgeon in town, capable of performing an amputation in less than one minute. Dr. Douglas transmitted his thirst for adventure to his son, taking him on numerous expeditions to Egypt and the Holy Land in the mid-19th century. He brought back several mummies from these journeys, …

John Goodsir (March 20, 1814-March 6, 1867) was a Scottish anatomist, born at Anstruther, Fife, Scotland. Goodsir was trained at St Andrews and Edinburgh, in which latter city he served an apprenticeship in dentistry; he settled in Anstruther and there wrote his noted essay on "Teeth"; in 1840 he became keeper of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and lecturer on Diseases of the Bone in 1842. Four years later he succeeded Dr.

William MacGillivray (January 25, 1796 - September 4, 1852) was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist. MacGillivray was born in Aberdeen and brought up on the island of Harris. He returned to Aberdeen where he studied medicine at King's College. In 1823 he became assistant to the Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh. He was Curator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1831, …

John Abercrombie (born October 10, 1780 in Aberdeen; died November 14, 1844 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish physician and philosopher. The son of the Reverend George Abercrombie of Aberdeen, he was educated at the Grammar School and Marischal College there. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and after graduating as M.D. in 1803 he settled down to practise in that city, where he soon attained a leading position.

Professor Asrat Woldeyes (June 20, 1928 - May 14 1999) was the first Ethiopian trained to practice surgery, a Professor of Medicine at Addis Ababa University, and the founder and leader of the All-Amhara People's Organization (AAPO), as well as a political figure who was jailed by the Derg and later by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). Professor Asrat was the founding member of the Ethiopian Medical Association (EMA), …

Air Commodore Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon, KT, GCVO, AFC, PC, DL, FRCSE, FRGS, (3 February 1903 - 30 March 1973) was a Scottish nobleman and pioneering aviator. He was the eldest of four brothers who were to make military history by all being at the rank of Squadron Leader or above simultaneously at the outbreak of World War II.

Dr Colin Lauder, (b. 1750; d. October 25, 1831, Worlds End Close, Edinburgh) was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and a Burgess of Edinburgh. His portrait was painted by Sir Henry Raeburn. The son of Dr.George Lauder (1712 - 1752), FRCS (Edin) & Burgess of Edinburgh by his spouse Rosina Preston (d.1786), Colin Lauder was also a great-great-grandson of Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, of Fountainhall.

Mr Christopher Oliver BSc (Hons), MB. BS, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Tr and Orth), FRCS (Ed), FRCP (Edin), DMI RCSEd, DM is a specialist Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at The New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh at Little France in Scotland. His specialist interest is upper limb problems especially involving the hand and elbow. The Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit in which he works is one of the busiest in the United Kingdom.