Harold Ellis: doyen of surgery and clinical anatomy, who loved sharing anecdotes from the operating theatre

Lelia Duley: epidemiologist whose eclampsia trials transformed maternal health worldwide

Gil Thompson: showed, despite fierce opposition, that high cholesterol leads to heart disease

Ken Taylor: cardiothoracic surgeon who set up the world’s first heart valve registry

Ian Manson: obstetrician and early pioneer of laparoscopy

John Robert Martin

Charles Price: public health expert who advised Europe on health inequalities

Sami Zahi Saba

Neville Leon Gittleson

Nigel Starey