John Geddes: early pioneer and advocate of rapid pre-hospital defibrillation

Tipu Zahed Aziz: resurrected functional neurosurgery in the UK in the face of a sceptical medical establishment

Matthew James Young

Richard Cash: public health doctor whose salt and sugar solution for cholera patients is estimated to have saved 70 million lives

Sanath Kumar Shetty

Raymund Michael Shearer

Judith Patricia Dawson

Mike Snow: infectious diseases specialist who treated the UK’s first HIV patients

Rupert Fawdry: obstetrician whose fascination with computerised medical records soon turned to disappointment

Tony Boycott: GP and caver whose knowledge of explosives made him an expert rescuer and explorer