Notable Alumni
- Thomas Addison, Physician who discovered Addison's disease amongst other pathologies.
- Eric Anson, New Zealand's first specialist anaesthetist
- William Bowman, ophthalmic surgeon, helped found Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom
- Richard Bright, discoverer of Bright's disease
- Russell Brock, Baron Brock, pioneering cardiothoraic 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
- 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
- John Keats, writer
- Joseph Lister, pioneer of aseptic surgery
- 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
- Max Theiler, virologist, awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing a vaccine for yellow fever
- Gerard Folliott Vaughan, UK psychiatrist, who became a politician and minister of state during Margaret Thatcher's government
- Sir Samuel Wilks, pathologist
- Fiona Wood AM, plastic surgeon, Australian of the Year 2005
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