Famous Alumni
Famous alumni include
- Takaki Kanehiro (1849 - 1920) - Japanese naval doctor, first person to discover the link between beriberi and diet.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939) - Physician, sexual psychologist and social reformer.
- Eric Anson (1892 - 1969) - New Zealand's first specialist anaesthetist.
- Max Theiler (1899 – 1972) - Virologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine for yellow fever.
- Richard Doll (1912 - 2005) - Epidemiologist and physiologist; established link between smoking and cancer.
- Dame Cecily Saunders DBE OM (1918-2005) - Nurse, physician and social worker who developed the concept of the hospice and was a pioneer of palliative care.
- David Owen (b. 1938) - Labour Foreign Secretary and founder of the Social Democratic Party.
- Fiona Wood AM (b. 1958) - Plastic surgeon, Australian of the Year 2005.
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“The [Loyal] legion has taken the place of the club—the famous Cincinnati Literary Club—in my affections.... The military circles are interested in the same things with myself, and so we endure, if not enjoy, each other.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)