Wilhelm Löffler (1887 – 1972) was a Swiss physician. Löffler is eponymously associated with two clinical manifestations of eosinophilia which he described: transient pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia (Löffler syndrome, 1932) and endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica (Löffler endocarditis, 1936).
Jean-François Calot (1861-1944) was a French surgeon. Eponymously associated with Calot’s Triangle (cystohepatic triangle) (1890)
Elmer Isaac “Ira” McKessen (1881-1935) was an inventor, physician and engineer. McKesson Intermittent ventilator, metabolor, and the nargraf
Sir William Henry Broadbent, 1st Baronet KCVO FRS FRCP (1835 - 1907) was an English physician. Broadbent sign, Broadbent law
Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1925) was a German physician and pathologist.
John (Jack) Handyside Barnes (1922-1985) was an Australian medical practitioner and toxinologist. 1964 the first specimens of the small stinger Carukia barnesi (Irukandji)
Sir William Osler (1849-1919), British (Canadian-born) physician. Famous for his anecdotes (Oslerisms), Osler nodes and Osler sign
Nicholas Alders (1904-1995) was a Hungarian born, Austrian trained, English naturalised obstetrician, gynaecologist and surgeon. Remembered for his description of Alders sign (1951)
Edward Harry Bishop (1913-1995) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. Bishop Score (1964), a method to evaluate the cervix in regard to the success or failure of induction of labor.
Williams McIver Bryan, Jr (1917-2007) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. In 1955, described Bryan sign in appendicitis with gravid uterus
Jørgen Løvset (1896-1981) was a Norwegian professor of obstetrics and gynecology. Løvset’s Manoeuvre (1937) in the management of breech delivery
Ina Mae (née Middleton) Gaskin (1940 - ) American midwife. Gaskin (all-fours) manoeuvre 1976; The Farm