Founded 1518 by Henry VIII in London.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| David W. K. Acheson |
Government |
? |
|
Food Safety Czar |
| Edgar Adrian |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1889 |
4-Aug-1977 |
Electricity within nerve cells |
| John Arbuthnot |
Doctor |
1667 |
27-Feb-1735 |
Scriblerus Club |
| Robert Bridges |
Poet |
23-Oct-1844 |
21-Apr-1930 |
Prometheus the Firegiver |
| Frank Macfarlane Burnet |
Scientist |
3-Sep-1899 |
31-Aug-1985 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| George Busk |
Doctor |
12-Aug-1807 |
10-Aug-1886 |
British surgeon and zoologist |
| John Caius |
Doctor |
6-Oct-1510 |
29-Jul-1573 |
Second founder of Gonville and Caius College |
| Joseph Mortimer Granville |
Doctor |
1833 |
1900 |
Electric vibrator |
| Susan Greenfield |
Scientist |
1-Oct-1950 |
|
Brain Story |
| John Scott Haldane |
Doctor |
3-May-1860 |
14-Mar-1936 |
Breathing regulated by CO2 |
| William Harvey |
Doctor |
1-Apr-1578 |
3-Jun-1657 |
Discovered circulation of blood |
| Bernard Katz |
Scientist |
26-Mar-1911 |
20-Apr-2003 |
Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland |
| Thomas Linacre |
Doctor |
c. 1460 |
20-Oct-1524 |
Established the Royal Academy of Physicians |
| John Macleod |
Scientist |
6-Sep-1876 |
16-Mar-1935 |
Helped discover insulin |
| William Osler |
Doctor |
12-Jul-1849 |
29-Dec-1919 |
Father of psychosomatic medicine |
| Sir Hans Sloane |
Curator |
16-Apr-1660 |
11-Jan-1753 |
Started the British Museum collection |
| William Stukeley |
Historian |
7-Nov-1687 |
3-Mar-1765 |
Stonehenge, a Temple Restored |
| Max Theiler |
Scientist |
30-Jan-1899 |
11-Aug-1972 |
Yellow fever vaccination |
