Firoz Dara Mistry was a general and vascular surgeon in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He was born in Bombay, India on 29 October 1938, the son of Tehmi and Dara Mistry and studied medicine at the G S Medical College in Bombay. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1971. He also became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of Canada, as well as of the American College of Surgeons. Throughout his career he practised general surgery with peripheral vascular surgery, originally in England and then, from 1979, in Hartford, Connecticut, at the Mount Sinai Hospital, the Eastern Connecticut Health Network’s Manchester Memorial Hospital and at St Francis Hospital. He retired in 2005. He was married to Piloo. Mistry died on 6 September 2018 at the age of 79.