Michael Aidoo was born in Mpohor, Ghana on 11 February 1935. His father was a farmer. He was educated at St Augustine's College, Cape Coast, Ghana, and the University College of Gold Coast. He attended King's College, London and the Westminster Medical School. He died on 22 December 1975. He had one

Neal Hamilton Masters was a general surgeon who lived and worked in Johannesburg, South Africa. He gained his FRCS in 1970. He died on 5 July 2013.

Mohammed Abdul Wahed was a surgeon in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Abdallah Shukry Mishrick was a senior consultant surgeon at Syosset and Plainview hospitals on Long Island, New York. He was born in Lebanon on 28 November 1928, the son of Shukry Abdallah Mishrick, a doctor, and Matilda Mishrick née Fernainy. He was educated at the English Mission College, Cairo, E

Ambrose Wasunna was head of the department of surgery at the University of Nairobi and director of the programme on health technologies at the World Health Organization (WHO). He was born on 4 August 1938 in the village of Nyahera, Nyzana province, Kenya and attended Maseno High School and then Make

Shyamapada Tripathi was a general surgeon. Born on 1 April 1933 in Howrah, West Bengal, India, he was the second son of Radhakkrishna Tripathi who was an assistant commercial officer on the South Eastern Railway and his wife Sarala Bala née Misra who was the daughter of a doctor. Educated at the the

Pradip Datta was a consultant general surgeon at Caithness General Hospital and a noted surgical trainer. He was born in Calcutta, India on 14 May 1940 and studied medicine at the University of Andhra, qualifying in 1964. In 1967 he went to the UK for further training. He was a registrar in gener

Shashikant Chaturbhai Patel – usually known as Sashi – was born on 18 March 1939 in Eldoret, Kenya. His father was Chaturbhai Patel, headmaster of a primary school and his mother’s maiden name was Maniben. He attended Allidina Visram High School in Mombasa before moving to the UK at the age of 16 an

Aldric Michael Chong Ping was a general surgeon in Ontario, Canada. He was born on 25 September 1939, the son of Michael and Joan Chong Ping, and studied medicine at University College, Dublin, Ireland, qualifying in 1963. He gained his FRCS in 1970. He practised general surgery in Ontario, and l

Ronald Sahoy was a pioneering cardiothoracic and general surgeon in the Caribbean. He was born on 3 January 1940, in Essequibo, British Guiana (now Guyana). His father was Kunandan Ramdial Sahoy, a business man who owned a trucking service, and his mother was Baidwattee née Narayan, who had worked a

Born on 18 December 1939 in London, David Jagelman was educated at St Joseph's College, Beulah Hill and King's College London, before going on to Westminster Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1963 he was surgical registrar, research lecturer and senior registrar at the Metropolitan, Westm

Robert Wilson Thomson, known as Bob, was born in Scotland and educated at Ayr Academy. He entered Glasgow University initially to study modern languages but switched to medicine after a year, graduating MB, ChB in 1964. After early house jobs at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow, he worked as a surg