Sir Kenneth Charles Calman is a Scottish doctor and academic who formerly worked as a surgeon, oncologist and cancer researcher and held the position of Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, and then England. He was Warden and Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 1998 to 2006 before becoming Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He held the position of Chair of the National Cancer Research Institute from 2008 until 2011. From 2008 to 2009, he was convener of the Calman Commission on Scottish devolution.
Narendra Babubhai Patel, Baron Patel, is a Tanzanian-British obstetrician and crossbench life peer. He served as president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1995 to 1998 and as Chancellor of the University of Dundee from 2006 to 2017.
Alexander Gordon Bearn informally Alick Bearn, a physician, scientist and author, was professor at Rockefeller University and Cornell University Medical College. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and had been Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society. He died Friday, May 15, 2009, in Philadelphia. Prior to his death Bearn was working on a family history that followed the Bearn family from Béarn, France to Angus, Scotland and finally to the United States.
Sir Graeme Robertson Dawson Catto FRSE, Hon FRCSE, FRCP(Lon, Edin & Glasg), FRCGP, FFPM, FAoP, FMedSci FKC is a Scottish doctor who was president, later chair, of the General Medical Council until April 2009. He is also currently Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the Universities of London and Aberdeen and was an honorary consultant nephrologist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Sir John Stewart Savill, FRS, FMedSci is the Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the UK and the Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and a Vice Principal of the University of Edinburgh.
Sir William Tennant Gairdner was a Scottish Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow.
Peter Boyle, FRSE FFPH FRCPS(Glas) FRCP(Edin) FMedSci, was a British epidemiologist. He conducted research on globalisation of cancer, where he showed the dramatic increase of cancer in low- and medium income countries.
Angus Macdonald FRSE FRCPE, was a Scottish physician, obstetrician and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He served as President of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society from 1879 to 1881.
Ernest Macalpine "Mac" Armstrong is a general practitioner and former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland.
Sir James Rögnvald Learmonth (1895–1967) was a Scottish surgeon who made pioneering advances in nerve surgery.
Martin Bobrow is a British geneticist, and Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Shirley Victoria Penrose Hodgson is a British geneticist.
Sir Alastair Robert Currie PRSE FRCPE FRCPGlas FRCP FRCPath LLD was a Scottish pathologist, who was Professor of Pathology, at Edinburgh University, 1972–86, and then emeritus. He was eminent in the field of cancer research and humanitarian causes.
Sir Leybourne Stanley Patrick Davidson was a British physician, medical investigator and author who wrote the medical textbook Principles and Practice of Medicine, which was first published in 1952.
Sir James Galloway was a British physician specialising in dermatology and was consultant physician to Charing Cross Hospital. During World War I he served as a colonel in the Army Medical Services in France and was knighted by George V for services to medicine in 1918.
Sir Alasdair Muir Breckenridge, was a Scottish pharmacologist.
Alan Eglin Heathcote Emery is a British medical geneticist, known for his study of muscular dystrophy.
Richard Somerset Houlston is a British medical geneticist. He is a professor of molecular and population genetics at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.
John Scott FRSE FRCPE FRCP (1797–1859) was a 19th-century Scottish naval surgeon and physician to Queen Victoria in Scotland.
Kenneth Gordon Lowe (1917–2010) was a Scottish physician who did pioneering research as a nephrologist and as a cardiologist.
