Sir William Stokes (surgeon)
Sir William Stokes (1839–1900), Irish surgeon and son of William Stokes, pioneered surgical techniques and served as RCSI professor and Queen Victoria’s surgeon
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Jeremy Swan
Jeremy Swan (1922–2005), Irish-born cardiologist, co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter and led advances in cardiac catheterisation and haemodynamic monitoring
Frederick Forchheimer
Frederick Forchheimer (1853–1913), U.S. paediatrician and educator, described Forchheimer spots and published landmark internal medicine textbooks
Nil Filatov
Nil Filatov (1847–1902), founder of Russian paediatrics, described key signs in measles, rubella, and mononucleosis; led Moscow’s first children’s hospital.
Louis Hamman
Louis Virgil Hamman (1877–1946), Johns Hopkins physician and diagnostician, described Hamman’s sign, Hamman syndrome, and Hamman-Rich syndrome
Joseph Rouanet
Joseph Rouanet (1797–1865), French physician, first linked heart sounds to valve closure. His 1832 thesis laid foundations for modern cardiac auscultation.
Charles Beevor
Charles Edward Beevor (1854-1908) was an English neurologist. Beevor sign - indicating a spinal cord lesion between T10 and T12
Karel Maydl
Karel Maydl (1853–1903), Czech surgeon, pioneer of colostomy, bladder exstrophy surgery, and Maydl’s hernia; early describer of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD)
Dorothy H. Andersen
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901–1963) was the first to describe cystic fibrosis, shaping paediatric pathology and breaking barriers for women in medicine.
Owen C. Ward
Owen Conor Ward (1923–2021), Irish paediatric cardiologist, co-described Romano-Ward syndrome; pioneer of children’s cardiac care and medical historian
Cesarino Romano
Cesarino Romano (1924–2008), Italian paediatrician, co-described Romano-Ward syndrome; led advances in cystic fibrosis, metabolic screening, and emergency care.
Fred Lange-Nielsen
Norwegian internist Fred Lange-Nielsen (1919–1989), co-discoverer of Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome, was a lung specialist, allergy pioneer, jazz musician, and human rights advocate.