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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“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
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