Medical pioneers
- George Owen Rees (1813–1889), the first to analyse the chemistry of urine and also did new work on the nature and shape of the blood corpuscles. [1] [2]
- George Edward Day (1815–1872), reformed to medical examinations [3]
- William Roberts (1830–1899), introduced the term Antagonism into microbiology and one of the first to describe the action of antibiotics including penicillin [4] [5]
- Frances Hoggan (1843–1927), various research including the anatomy and physiology of lymph nodes [6]
- Robert Armstrong-Jones (1857–1943), instituted special training for mental health nurses and occupational therapy for patients, and developed modern methods to treat mental diseases [7] [8]
- Llewellyn Jones Llewellyn (1871–1934), an authority on rheumatism and related diseases [9]
- Thomas Lewis (1881–1945), pioneer cardiologist and clinical scientist [10] [11]
- William Evans (1895–1988), cardiology; description of the anatomy of coarctation of the aorta; controls in drug trials; studies on electrocardiography; first accurate description of ‘familial cardiomegaly’ [12]
- Horace Evans (1903–1963), linked hypertension and nephritis [13]
- Denis John Williams (1908–1990), did pioneering work on using EEG to study cerebral disease [14]
- John David Spillane (1909–1985), established the modern study of Tropical Neurology [15]
- Eluned Woodford-Williams (1913–1984), established geriatrics as a speciality and began practice of admitting all patients over 65 year old to her unit [16]
- D. Geraint James (1922–2010), classifyied the clinical and radiological features of sarcoidosis [17]
- Julian Tudor-Hart (1927–2018), Local population health and hypertension among other topics [18]
- Keith Peters (born 1938), improved understanding of glomerulonephritis [19]
- Dafydd Stephens (1942–2012), founder of audiological medicine [20]
