British paediatricians

Barbara Mary Ansell CBE, FRCP, FRCS (30 August 1923 – 14 September 2001) was the founder of paediatric rheumatology.

Dr Robert Mark Beattie, a Paediatric Consultant Gastroenterologist working at Southampton General Hospital since April 2000, ; he is now clinical lead in his field.

Sir George Frederic Still, KCVO (27 February 1868 – 28 June 1941) was an English paediatrician and author of numerous medical textbooks and articles who first described a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis as well as the common functional Still's murmur, both of which bear his name, as well as being the first to describe ADHD.

Catherine Chisholm CBE (2 January 1878 – 21 July 1952) was a British physician and the first female medical graduate of the University of Manchester.

Anthony Costello (born 20 February 1953) is a British paediatrician best known for his work on improving survival among mothers and their newborn infants in poor populations of developing countries.

Harry Angelman (13 August 1915 – 8 August 1996) was a British consultant paediatrician who identified Angelman Syndrome.

Octavius Sturges (1833 – 3 November 1895) was a British paediatrician who coined the term "chorea".

Martin Bax is a British consultant paediatrician, who, in addition to his medical career, founded the Arts magazine Ambit in 1959.

Martin Elliott (born ca. 1951) is a British surgeon.

Jonathan Grigg is a British professor of paediatric respiratory and environmental medicine at Queen Mary University of London.

Professor David Morley CBE (15 June 1923 – 2 July 2009) DM FRCP was a British paediatrician and Emeritus Professor of Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health who saved the lives of many thousands of children in developing countries.

John Oldroyd Forfar, MC, FRSE (16 November 1916 – 14 August 2013) was a British paediatrician and academic.

E. Richard Moxon is a medical researcher and Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford.

Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet KCVO FRS FRCP (4 November 1845 – 15 January 1945) was a British royal physician, known for his research on infantile scurvy.

James Mourilyan Tanner (1 August 1920 – 11 August 2010) was a British pediatric endocrinologist who was best known for his development of the Tanner scale, which measures the stages of sexual development during puberty.

"One of the men who have helped to make the reign of Queen Victoria a memorable period in the history of medical progress"— The British Medical Journal, 2 April 1898 Charles West (1816-1898) was a British physician, specialized in pediatrics and obstetrics, especially known as the founder of the first children's hospital in Great Britain, the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, London.

Terence Stephenson DM FRCP FRCPCH is a consultant paediatric doctor in the UK and chair of the General Medical Council (GMC).

Sir Samuel Roy Meadow (born 1933) is a retired British paediatrician, who first came to public prominence following a 1977 academic paper describing a phenomenon dubbed Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP).

Douglas Montagu Temple Gairdner DM FRCP (19 November 1910 – 10 May 1992) was a British paediatrician, research scientist, academic, author, and for fifteen years editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood.

June Kathleen Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury DBE (1 January 1928 – 28 June 2006) was a British paediatrician and, in retirement, a cross bench member of the House of Lords.

Samuel G. Benady MBE (Gibraltar, 11 September 1937) is a Gibraltarian historian, novelist and retired pediatrician of Sephardic Jewish descent.