175 years of achievement can be traced through our staff and students who have achieved pre-eminence in their fields. Among them are:
Former staff
- Charles Turner Thackrah, one of the founders of the School and the father of occupational medicine in Britain;
- Clifford Allbutt, physician and the inventor of the short stemmed clinical thermometer;
- Arthur Fergusson McGill, who performed the first suprabubic prostatectomy;
- Friederich Eurich, Bacteriologist, the leading figure in the eradication in the early 20th century of cutaneous anthrax (wool-sorters' disease) in Bradford;
- Richard Smithells, Professor of Paediatrics who discovered the importance of folic acid in the prevention of spina bifida.
Former students of the School
- John Deakin Heaton who was the first Chairman of Council of the Yorkshire College of Science, the forerunner of the University of Leeds;
- Arthur Mayo-Robson, pioneer of surgery of the biliary tract;
- Berkeley Moynihan, the leading surgeon of the early 20th century who was President of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1926-31 and rose to the peerage;
- William Pickles, General Practitioner whose ‘Epidemiology in a Country Practice’ published in 1939 brought worldwide recognition and who became the first President of the College of General Practitioners;
- Frank Parsons, who pioneered kidney dialysis in the 1950s.
- Maurice Ellis, the father of Accident and Emergency Medicine.
