Pippa Tyrrell: Manchester’s first ever dedicated stroke physician whose overhaul of the city’s services led to change throughout the UK

Tim Crow: psychiatrist whose original thinking on the origins of schizophrenia ended up in the pages of a Sebastian Faulks novel

Michael King: general surgeon who spent 30 years working in Malawi

Ted Buckley: “father of Irish neurosurgery” who trained many specialists at home and abroad

Marie Louise McCrea

John Spincer

Ronald Martin Oliver

Anthony John Webb

Imran Ul Haq

David Brown: virologist who developed saliva testing for rubella and measles and led the virus reference department for the Health Protection Agency for almost two decades