John Smith (1825–1910) was a Scottish dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator. The founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry, he served as president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1883) and president of the British Dental Association. He was the official surgeon/dentist to Queen Victoria when in Scotland.
Sir Francis Martin Rouse Walshe, FRS was a British neurologist.
Sir Sydney Alfred Smith CBE OPR FRSE, was a forensic scientist, pathologist and one of the pre-eminent medico-legal specialists in the world. From 1928 to 1953, Smith was Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, a well-known forensic department of that time. Smith's iconic 1959 autobiography Mostly Murder has run through many British and American editions and has been translated into several other languages.
Thomas Jones Mackie CBE FRSE LLD was a noted Scottish bacteriologist; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh; and author of medical research textbooks.
Sir Thomas Richard Fraser was a British physician and pharmacologist. Together with Alexander Crum Brown he discovered the relationship between physiological activity and chemical constitution of the body.
Sir James Alexander Russell was a Scottish physician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1891–94). He was a pioneer in the development of public health services.
Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn MD LLD FRCSE was a Scottish surgeon, forensic scientist and public health official. He served for 46 years as Edinburgh's first Medical Officer of Health, during which time he brought about significant improvements in the living conditions and the health of the city's inhabitants. He also served as a police surgeon and medical adviser in Scottish criminal cases.
Henry Dewar of Lassodie MD FRSE (1771–1823), originally Henry Frazer or Fraser, was a Scottish minister turned physician, known as a writer.
David Rorie, DSO, MDCM, DPH was a medical doctor, folklorist and poet writing in his native language, Scots. As a poet he is known chiefly for his authorship of the well-known song, 'The Lum Hat wantin' the Croon', and a volume of collected poems which appeared under that title in 1935.
George William Balfour FRSE was a Scottish physician, known as a heart specialist.
Catherine Jane CalderwoodFRCOG FRCPE is a Scottish consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, who has served as the National Clinical Director for Sustainable Delivery at the Golden Jubilee University National Hospital since 2021. She previously served as the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland from 2015 to 2020, having advised the Scottish Government's initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland.
Sir David Craig Carter is a surgeon who was Chief Medical Officer for Scotland from 1996 to 2000.
George Alexander Gibson FRSE FRCPE was a Scottish physician, medical author, and amateur geologist. As an author, he wrote on the diverse fields of both geology and heart disease. The Gibson Memorial Lecture is named after him. He was the first to discover a heart condition – the Gibson Murmur – which is named after him.
Carstairs Cumming Douglas FRSE was a Scottish physician, educator and medical author. He was Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Public Health for 41 years at Anderson's College in Glasgow.
Dr Robert Peel Ritchie MD FRSE PRCPE (1835-1902) was a Scottish physician and medical historian.
James Holmes Hutchison was a Scottish paediatrician and Samson Gemmell Professor of Child Heath at Glasgow University from 1961 to 1977. From 1977 onwards he was Professor of Child Health at the University of Hong Kong. Friends knew him as Jim Hutchison.
Robert Milne Murray FRSE FRCPE FRSSA was a Scottish surgeon and medical author. Specialising in gynaecology he ran the Edinburgh Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Hospital, He was the first medical Electrician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary but refused to patent any of the devices which he created and instead openly showed the apparatus to vising European colleagues to be freely copied.
Professor William Thomas Ritchie FRSE PRCPE LLD OBE was a Scottish cardiologist who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1935 to 1937.
Dr W. G. Aitchison Robertson FRCPE FRSE DLitt was a 20th-century Scottish doctor and barrister and an expert on medical jurisprudence.
Robert Walmsley FRSE FRCPE FRCSE TD was a 20th-century Scottish anatomist who served as Professor of Anatomy at the University of St Andrews.
