Famous Physicians Who Worked At Guy's
- Devi Prasad Shetty, famous cardiac surgeon & Founder, Narayana Hrudayalaya
- Thomas Addison, discoverer of Addison's disease
- Thomas Hodgkin, discoverer of Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Richard Bright, discoverer of Bright's disease
- Sir Astley Cooper, discoverer of the Cooper's ligaments of the breasts
- Edward Cock, surgeon and nephew of Sir Astley Cooper
- Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin and instructor of pathology
- Sir Samuel Wilks
- Sir Alfred Poland, the first to describe Poland syndrome
- Sir Frederick Hopkins, discoverer of vitamins
- Sir William Withey Gull, the first to describe myxoedema and coined the term anorexia nervosa
- James Hinton, otologist
- John Hilton, great anatomist and surgeon
- Humphry Osmond, psychiatrist who worked with psychedelic drugs and coined the term
- John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield
- Frederick William Pavy, worked with Richard Bright, one of the founders and presidents of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
- John Braxton Hicks, obstetrician, discoverer of the Braxton Hicks uterine contractions
- Gerard Folliott Vaughan, UK psychiatrist, who became a politician and minister of state during Margaret Thatcher's government
- James Jurin, early work on epidemiology of the smallpox vaccine
- Abraham Pineo Gesner, surgeon and inventor of kerosene refining
- John Keats, poet
- Philip Henry Pye-Smith, physician
- Iain West, forensic pathologist
- David Quick, anaesthetist
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