University of St Andrews School of Medicine - Famous Alumni

Famous Alumni

Medical students at the University of St Andrews have included:

Name Class year Notability References
Robert Whytt MA 1730, MD 1737 President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, wrote book on diseases of the nervous system
Jean-Paul Marat MD 1775 Radical pro-revolutionary journalist during the French Revolution
Edward Jenner MD 1792 Discovered the smallpox vaccine
Joseph Bancroft MD 1859 surgeon and parasitologist, discovered filariasis, made advances in leprosy
Sir Douglas Black MB ChB 1943 Author of the Black Report; former President of the Royal College of Physicians
Sir James Black MB ChB 1946 Inventor of Propanolol; Developer of Cimetidine and Ranitidine; Nobel Prize in Medicine winner; Chancellor of the University of Dundee
John Garrow MD, PhD Chairman of HealthWatch, editor of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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