The Royal College of Surgeons of England is an independent professional body and registered charity that promotes and advances standards of surgical care for patients, and regulates surgery and dentistry in England and Wales. The college is located at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. It publishes multiple medical journals including the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Faculty Dental Journal, and the Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Sir Thomas Spencer Wells, 1st Baronet was surgeon to Queen Victoria, a medical professor and president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
John Whitaker Hulke FRCS FRS FGS was a British surgeon, geologist and fossil collector. He was the son of a physician in Deal, who became a Huxleyite despite being deeply religious.
Victor Gustave Plarr was an English poet; he is probably best known for the poem Epitaphium Citharistriae.
William Anderson FRCS was an English surgeon born in Shoreditch, London. He was Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy in London, and an important collector and scholar of Japanese art. He was the first chairman of the Japan Society. The genetic disorder Anderson-Fabry disease is named after him.
Thomas Michael Greenhow MD MRCS FRCS was an English surgeon and epidemiologist.
Sir John Tweedy was a surgeon and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder, a Scottish ophthalmologist who was a dominant force in his field for more than a quarter of a century.
Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird (1848–1939) was an English surgeon at Guy's Hospital, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and lecturer to medical students. He was skilled in histology, invented a dilator for use in tracheotomies, and pioneered a new gastroenterological surgical procedure.
Sir Henry Morris, 1st Baronet FRCS was a British medical doctor and surgeon, president of the Royal Society of Medicine and the author and editor of significant works on anatomy. He was also known for his work in the field of cancer.
Sir Terence Edward Cawthorne FRCS was a British surgeon specialising in otorhinolaryngology (ENT). He was knighted in 1964.
Sir James Paterson Ross, 1st Baronet, was a British general surgeon, who was surgeon to King George VI and, from 1952, Surgeon to the Queen.
Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors was a British cardiothoracic surgeon.
Sir Henry Greenway Howse was an English surgeon, sometime President of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Sir John Herbert Parsons CBE FRS FRCS was a British ophthalmologist and ophthalmic surgeon.
John Stephenson CIE FRS FRSE FRCS was a surgeon and zoologist. He was a leading expert on the earthworms of the Indian subcontinent and served as editor of the Fauna of British India series from 1927. Knowledgeable in Persian, Hindustani and some Arabic, he was also an orientalist scholar and translated several works from Persian to English.
Mom Rajawongse Kalyanakit Kitiyakara was a Thai cardiothoracic surgeon who trained in England and the United States. He was born in Bangkok to Nakkhatra Mangala, Prince of Chantaburi II and Bua Kitiyakara. He was the eldest brother of Sirikit, Queen of Thailand.
Marcus Beck was a British professor of surgery at University College Hospital. He was an early proponent of the germ theory of disease and promoted the discoveries of Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister in surgical literature of the time. He gave his name to the Marcus Beck Library at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM).
Andrew Wood Wilkinson was a British paediatrician of Scottish extraction and the first Professor of Paediatric Surgery in the UK.
Denis Browne Gold Medal is a medal that was first struck in 1968, one year after the death of the paediatric surgeon Denis Browne and is awarded for outstanding contributions to paediatric surgery worldwide and is an honour bestowed by The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons.
