•
Harold Ackroyd, First World War recipient of the
Victoria Cross •
Thomas Addison, discoverer of
Addison's disease •
Stephanie Amiel, diabetologist •
John Belchier, surgeon •
William Babington, founder member of the
Geological Society •
Benjamin Guy Babington invented the laryngoscope •
Richard Bright, discoverer of
Bright's disease •
Russell Brock, Baron Brock, pioneer of modern open-heart surgery •
Frank Cook, Surgeon •
John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield Professor of Experimental Medicine •
Trevor Clay nurse and General Secretary of the
Royal College of Nursing •
Sydney Cohen, Professor of Chemical Pathology • Sir
Astley Cooper, discoverer of the
Cooper's ligaments of the
breasts •
Edward Cock, surgeon and nephew of Sir Astley Cooper • Dame
Rachel Crowdy, Principal Commandant of
Voluntary Aid Detachments in France and Belgium from 1914 to 1919 •
Prokar Dasgupta, Urologist and robotic surgeon •
C. S. Forester, English novelist, studied medicine at Guy's but did not graduate •
John Frederick France, ophthalmic surgeon •
Graham Fraser, consultant and pioneer of
cochlear implants in the United Kingdom. • Sir
Alfred Downing Fripp, surgeon who was knighted for his part in the reform of the
R.A.M.C. • Sir
William Kelsey Fry, pioneering dental surgeon •
Abraham Pineo Gesner, surgeon and inventor of
kerosene refining • Sir
William Withey Gull, the first to describe
myxoedema and coined the term
anorexia nervosa •
Edward Headlam Greenhow, physician, sanitarian and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals lecturer •
Thomas Michael Greenhow, surgeon and sanitarian •
Georgiana Hill, cookery book writer, worked as a ward sister •
Henry Bendelack Hewetson,
ophtalmic and
Aural surgeon •
John Braxton Hicks, obstetrician, discoverer of the Braxton Hicks
uterine contractions •
Mary Ann Hilliard, outpatient sister and later notable
suffragette •
John Hilton,
anatomist and surgeon •
James Hinton,
otologist •
Thomas Hodgkin, discoverer of
Hodgkin's lymphoma • Sir
Frederick Hopkins, discoverer of
vitamins •
James Jurin, early work on
epidemiology of the
smallpox vaccine •
John Keats, poet •
Thomas Wilkinson King, anatomical pathologist •
Emily MacManus, Matron •
Alan Menter, International Psoriasis Council, Founder •
Frederick Akbar Mahomed, physician who helped define
essential hypertension as a distinct disease •
J. F. O. Mustaffah, first Ghanaian Neurosurgeon •
Humphry Osmond, psychiatrist who worked with
psychedelic drugs and coined the term •
Frederick William Pavy, worked with Richard Bright, one of the founders and presidents of the
Medical and Chirurgical Society of London • Sir Edwin
Cooper Perry Superintendent; Dean of the Medical School; 1st Warden of the Residential College • Sir
Alfred Poland, the first to describe
Poland syndrome •
Philip Henry Pye-Smith, physician •
Patricia Batty Shaw, social worker •
Devi Prasad Shetty, cardiac surgeon and founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya •
Keith Simpson, Home Office Pathologist •
Jean Smellie,
paediatrician • Dame
Sarah Swift,
matron, founder of the College of Nursing, later the
Royal College of Nursing •
Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford,
Conservative MP, was student and later senior registrar •
Gerard Folliott Vaughan,
psychiatrist, who became a politician and
minister of state during
Margaret Thatcher's government •
Iain West, forensic pathologist •
William James West, discoverer of
epileptic spasms; West syndrome was named in his honour • Sir
Samuel Wilks •
Ludwig Wittgenstein, worked anonymously as a hospital porter during
World War II ==Arms==