Mahavir Pershad Chaturvedi was a general surgeon. His last-known address was in New York, USA. He was born in Benares, India, on 12 May 1922. His father, Mulchandji Chaturvedi, was a railway claims inspector. His mother, Phoolkunwar Chaturvedi née Chowdry, was the daughter of a banker. He was educated at a convent school and at the Government College, Ajmer, under Agra University. He went on to study medicine at GS Medical College in Bombay and BJ Medical College in Ahmedabad. He qualified as a licentiate certified physician and surgeon (LCPS) in 1946. He worked at the King Edward Memorial Hospital, Bombay, and in the UK, at Nottingham General Hospital. He listed Anappa Vithal Baliga, Profulla Kumar Sen, J F Sheehan and A K Burkitt as the surgeons who had influenced him. He gained his fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and Edinburgh in 1965, and a fellowship from the Canadian College in 1972. Outside medicine, he was interested in Indian classical music and the political history of India. In 1945 he married Padma. They had two sons. Mahavir Pershad Chaturvedi died on 8 April 2007. He was 84.