Science and Medicine
- Cicely Williams, identified protein deficiency disease kwashiorkor
- Leigh D. Lord, blood transfusion pioneer
- Louis Grant, microbiologist, pathologist
- William E. McCulloch, found cure for blackwater fever and sleeping sickness
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