Editing List of Scots (section)

==Physicians and medical professionals==
* [[David Abercromby]] (died c.1702), physician and writer
* [[Francis Adams (translator)|Francis Adams]] (1796–1861), medical doctor and translator of [[Greek medicine|Greek medical works]]
* [[John Adamson (physician)|Dr John Adamson]] (1809–1870), physician, pioneer photographer, physicist, lecturer and museum curator
* [[James Ormiston Affleck]] (1840–1922), physician and medical author
* [[Margaret F. Alexander|Margaret Forbes Alexander]] (living), nurse, educator, researcher and writer
* [[William Pulteney Alison]] (1790–1859), physician, social reformer and philanthropist
* [[John Maxwell Anderson]] (1928–1982), surgeon and cancer specialist
* [[Thomas McCall Anderson|Sir Thomas McCall Anderson]] (1836–1908), professor of practice of medicine at the University of Glasgow
* [[Archibald Arnott]] (1772–1855), British Army surgeon best remembered as Napoleon's last doctor on [[Saint Helena|St. Helena]]
* [[Asher Asher]] (1837–1889), first [[History of the Jews in Scotland|Scottish Jew]] to enter the medical profession
* [[Matthew Baillie]] (1761–1823), physician and [[pathologist]]
* [[Dugald Baird|Sir Dugald Baird]] (1899–1986), specializing in obstetrics and fertility
* [[Andrew Balfour|Sir Andrew Balfour]] (1873–1931), medical officer who specialised in [[tropical medicine]]
* [[Edward Balfour]] (1813–1889), surgeon, [[Oriental studies|orientalist]] and pioneering environmentalist in India
* [[George William Balfour]] (1823–1903), physician, known as a heart specialist
* [[Thomas Graham Balfour]] (1813–1891), physician noted for his work in [[medical statistics]]
* [[Sir George Ballingall]] (1780–1855), [[Regius Professor]] of [[military surgery]]
* [[William Mitchell Banks]] (1842–1904), surgeon
* [[William Burney Bannerman|Major General William Burney Bannerman]] (1858–1924), [[military medicine|military surgeon]]
* [[Andrew Whyte Barclay]] (1817–1884), physician, [[Lumleian Lecturer]], and [[Harveian Orator]]
* [[George Steward Beatson]] (died 1874), surgeon-general, Honorary [[Physician to the Queen]]
* [[George Beatson|Colonel Sir George Thomas Beatson]] (1848–1933), physician, pioneer in the field of oncology
* [[William Beattie (physician)|William Beattie]] (1793–1875), physician and writer
* [[James Begbie]] (1798–1869), physician, president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
* [[James Warburton Begbie]] (1826–1876), physician
* [[Benjamin Bell]] of Hunthill (1749–1806), considered to be the first Scottish scientific surgeon
* [[Sir Charles Bell]] (1774–1842), surgeon, anatomist, neurologist and philosophical theologian
* [[John Bell (surgeon)|John Bell]] (1763–1820), anatomist and surgeon
* [[James Black (pharmacologist)|Sir James Whyte Black]] (1924–2010), physician and pharmacologist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[Emily Blair|Dame Emily Mathieson Blair]] (1892–1963), nurse, Matron-in-Chief of the [[Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service]] and the [[British Red Cross Society]]
* [[Gilbert Blane|Sir Gilbert Blane of Blanefield]] (1749–1834), physician who instituted health reform in the Royal Navy
* [[James Borthwick]] of [[Stow of Wedale|Stow]] (1615–1675), surgeon and first teacher of anatomy
* [[James Braid (surgeon)|James Braid]] (1795–1860), surgeon and "[[gentleman scientist]]", influential pioneer of [[hypnotism]] and [[hypnotherapy]]
* [[John Milne Bramwell]] (1852–1925), physician, surgeon and medical hypnotist
* [[William A. F. Browne]] (1805–1885), one of the most significant asylum doctors of the nineteenth century
* [[Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton]] (1844–1916), physician known for treatment of [[angina pectoris]]
* [[William Buchan (physician)|William Buchan]] (1729–1805), physician, writer on medicine for a lay readership
* [[Maura Buchanan]] (living), nursing administrator, former president of the [[Royal College of Nursing]]
* [[Francis Buchanan-Hamilton]] (1762–1829), physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist while living in India
* [[Thomas Burnet (physician)|Sir Thomas Burnet]] (1638–1704), physician to Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Queen Anne
* [[Ewan Cameron]] (1922–1991), physician who worked with [[Linus Pauling]] on [[Vitamin C]] research
* [[Murdoch Cameron]] (1847–1930), Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow
* [[Robina Thomson Cameron]] (1892–1971), district nurse, community leader and nursing inspector
* [[Dugald Campbell]] (died 1940), doctor from the isle of Arran; government physician on Hawaii
* [[James Cantlie|Sir James Cantlie]] (1851–1926), physician, pioneer of [[First aid]]
* [[John Cheyne (physician)|John Cheyne]] (1777–1836), physician, and medical writer; identified [[Cheyne–Stokes respiration]], with [[William Stokes (physician)|William Stokes]]
* [[Colin Chisholm (medical writer)|Colin Chisholm]] (1755–1825), surgeon, medical writer and Fellow of the Royal Society
* [[Mairi Chisholm|Mairi Lambert Gooden-Chisholm of Chisholm]] (1896–1981), military nurse and ambulance driver during World War I, awarded the [[Military Medal]]
* [[Sir Robert Christison, 1st Baronet|Sir Robert Christison]] (1797–1882), toxicologist and physician 
* [[Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet|Sir James Clark]] (1788–1870), physician who was [[Physician-in-Ordinary]] to Queen Victoria 
* [[Hugh Cleghorn (forester)|Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn]] of Stravithie (1820–1895), physician, botanist, and [[forester]] who worked in India
* [[Thomas Clouston (psychiatrist)|Sir Thomas Smith Clouston]] (1840–1915), psychiatrist
* [[Samuel Cockburn (physician and homeopath)|Dr Samuel Cockburn]] (1823–1915), advocate and practitioner of [[homeopathy]]
* [[John Coldstream]] (1806–1863), physician
* [[James Copland (physician)|James Copland]] (1791–1870), physician and prolific medical writer
* [[John Craig (physician)|John Craig]] (died 1620), physician and astronomer; physician to [[James VI of Scotland]]
* [[David Craigie]] (1793–1866), physician and medical writer
* [[Alexander Crichton|Sir Alexander Crichton]] (1763–1856), physician, including the [[Emperor of Russia]]'s personal physician, and author
* [[James Crichton-Browne|Sir James Crichton-Browne]] (1840–1938), leading psychiatrist and medical psychologist
* [[William Cumin (obstetrician)|William Cumin]] (died 1854), Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow
* [[David Douglas Cunningham]] (1843–1914), doctor and researcher in India, pioneer in [[aerobiology]]
* [[Daniel John Cunningham]] (1850–1909), physician, zoologist, and anatomist; author of medical textbooks
* [[David Deas (Royal Navy officer)|Sir David Deas]] (1807–1876), medical officer in the Royal Navy
* [[Ian Donald]] (1910–1987), physician, pioneer of the use of [[Medical ultrasonography|diagnostic ultrasound]] in medicine
* [[David Dumbreck|Sir David Dumbreck]] (1805–1876), British Army medical officer
* [[Andrew Duncan, the elder|Andrew Duncan]], the elder (1744–1828), physician, professor at Edinburgh University, pioneer of [[forensic medicine]]
* [[Andrew Duncan, the younger|Andrew Duncan]], the younger (1773–1832), physician, first professor of [[medical jurisprudence]] at Edinburgh University
* [[James Matthews Duncan]] (1826–1890), physician, practitioner of and author on [[obstetrics]]
* [[William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn]] (1889–1964), psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, central figure in the development of the [[object relations theory]] of psychoanalysis
* [[Sir Walter Farquhar, 1st Baronet|Sir Walter Farquhar]] (1738–1819), physician, whose clientele included the future [[George IV of the United Kingdom|King George IV]] and [[William Pitt the Younger]]
* [[William Fergusson (physician)|William Fergusson]] (1773–1846), inspector-general of military hospitals; medical writer
* [[Charles Finnigan]] (1901–1967), dental surgeon, Surgeon [[Rear-Admiral]] in the Royal Navy, Honorary Dental Surgeon to [[Elizabeth II|the Queen]]
* [[James Forbes (hospital inspector)|James Forbes]] (1779–1837), inspector-general of army hospitals
* [[George Fordyce]] (1736–1802), physician, lecturer on medicine, and chemist
* [[William Fordyce|Sir William Fordyce]] (1724–1792), physician, voted a gold medal for his work on [[rhubarb]] by the [[Society of Arts]]
* [[David Kennedy Fraser]] (1888–1962), psychologist, educator and amateur mathematician
* [[Margaret Neill Fraser]] (1880–1915), First World War nurse and notable amateur golfer, who died in [[Serbia]]
* [[John Gairdner]] (1790–1876), physician and president of the [[College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]]
* [[Sir William Tennant Gairdner]] (1824–1907), Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow
* [[Maxwell Garthshore]] (1732–1812), physician
* [[Marion Gilchrist (doctor)|Marion Gilchrist]] (1864–1952), first female graduate of the University of Glasgow; first woman to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university; leading activist in [[Women's suffrage]] movement
* [[Theodore Gordon (British Army officer)|Theodore Gordon]] (1786–1845), inspector of army hospitals
* [[Robert Edmond Grant]] (1793–1874), physician and biologist
* [[James Gregory (physician)|James Gregory]] (1753–1821), physician and [[classicist]]
* [[Jane Stocks Greig]] (1872–1939), medical doctor and public health specialist in Australia
* [[Robert Marcus Gunn]] (1850–1909), ophthalmologist
* [[Daniel Rutherford Haldane]] (1824–1887), prominent physician, president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
* [[Evelina Haverfield]] (1867–1920), [[suffragette]] and World War I nurse in [[Serbia]]
* [[Alexander Henderson (physician)|Alexander Henderson]] (1780–1863), physician and author
* [[David Henderson (psychiatrist)|David Kennedy Henderson]] (1884–1965), psychiatrist
* [[James Hodsdon|Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon]] (1858–1928) eminent surgeon, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1914–1917
* [[Thomas Charles Hope]] (1766–1844), physician and chemist, discoverer of the element [[strontium]]
* [[Joseph Hume]] (1777–1855), physician and [[Radicals (UK)|Radical]] MP
* [[John Hunter (surgeon)|John Hunter]] (1728–1793), surgeon, after whom the [[Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons]] is named
* [[Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet of Thurle|Sir Robert Hutchison]] (1871–1960), physician and [[paediatrician]]
* [[Elsie Inglis]] (1864–1917), medical reformer and suffragette
* [[John Scott Inkster]], (1924–2011) [[Anesthesia|anesthesiologist]]
* [[Robert Jackson (surgeon)|Robert Jackson]] (1750–1827), physician-surgeon, reformer, and inspector-general of army hospitals
* [[Louisa Jordan]] (1878–1915), nurse who died in [[Serbia]] during the [[First World War]]; [[NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital]] was named after her
* [[James Keill]] (1673–1719), physician, philosopher, medical writer and translator
* [[John Martin Munro Kerr]] (1868–1960), [[Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Glasgow)|Regius Professor of Midwifery]] at the University of Glasgow
* [[R. D. Laing]] (1927–1989), psychiatrist and author
* [[Thomas Latta]] (1796–1833), pioneer of the saline solution method of treatment
* [[John Lauder (surgeon)|John Lauder]] (1683–1737), surgeon, deacon of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]]
* [[Robert Lee (obstetrician)|Robert Lee]] (1793–1877), obstetrician, and personal physician to Prince [[Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov]], Governor-General of the [[Crimea]]
* [[William Boog Leishman|Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman]] (1865–1926), pathologist and army medical officer
* [[John Liddell (Royal Navy officer)|Sir John Liddell]] (1794–1868), Director-General of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy; senior medical officer of the [[Old Royal Naval College|Royal Hospital]] at Greenwich
* [[James Lind]] (1716–1794), physician, pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy
* [[Henry Littlejohn (surgeon born 1826)|Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn]] (1826–1914), surgeon, forensic scientist and public health pioneer
* [[Robert Lumsden]] (1903–1973), ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeon
* [[William Macewen|Sir William Macewen]] (1848–1924), surgeon, pioneer in modern brain surgery
* [[Jessie MacLaren MacGregor]] (1863–1906), one of the first women to be awarded an MD from the University of Edinburgh
* [[William Mackenzie (ophthalmologist)|William Mackenzie]] (1791–1868), ophthalmologist, who wrote one of the first British textbooks of ophthalmology
* [[William Alexander Mackinnon (1830–1897)|Sir William Alexander Mackinnon]] (1830–1897), [[Director General Army Medical Services|Director-General of the British Army Medical Service]]
* [[Thomas John MacLagan]] (1838–1903), Dundee doctor and pharmacologist
* [[Sir Patrick Manson|Patrick Manson]] (1844–1922), physician who made important discoveries in [[parasitology]], founder of the field of [[tropical medicine]]
* [[Mary Adamson Anderson Marshall]] (1837–1910), physician, one of the members of the [[Edinburgh Seven]], the first women to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh
* [[Douglas Mary McKain]] (1789–1873), New Zealand nurse, midwife and businesswoman
* [[Agnes McLaren]] (1837–1913), doctor, first to give medical assistance to women in India 
* [[Gavin Milroy]] (1805–1886), physician and medical writer
* [[Alexander Monteith (surgeon)|Alexander Monteith of Auldcathie]] (1660–1713), surgeon, deacon of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh|Incorporation of Surgeons of Edinburgh]]
* [[Neil Gordon Munro]] (1863–1942), physician and anthropologist, who studied the [[Ainu people]]
* [[Flora Murray]] (1869–1923), medical pioneer, and a member of the [[Women's Social and Political Union]] suffragettes
* [[Robin Murray|Sir Robin MacGregor Murray]] (born 1944), psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatric Research
* [[Duncan Napier]], Victorian botanist and medical [[herbalism|herbalist]]]
* [[Bruce M. Nicol|Bruce Milligan Nicol, OBE]] (1913-1987), physician and nutrition scientist
* [[Alexander Nisbet (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Alexander Nisbet]] (1795–1874), naval surgeon, H.M. Inspector of Hospitals for the Royal Navy
* [[William Nisbet (physician)|William Nisbet]] (1759–1822), physician, author of widely used medical books that emphasized practice
* [[Alexander Ogston|Sir Alexander Ogston]] (1844–1929), surgeon, famous for his discovery of [[Staphylococcus]]
* [[Alexander Pennycuik]] (1605–1695), military surgeon, Surgeon General of the Scots forces in Ireland
* [[David Pitcairn]] (1749–1809), physician
* [[Archibald Pitcairne]] (1652–1713), physician and author
* [[Richard Poole (physician)|Richard Poole]] (1783–1871), physician, psychiatrist, and phrenologist
* [[George Hogarth Pringle]] (1830–1872), surgeon, pioneer of antiseptic surgery in Australia
* [[John James Pringle]] (1855–1922), dermatologist
* [[Laidlaw Purves]] (1842–1917), aural and ophthalmic surgeon
* [[John Rattray (surgeon)|John Rattray]] (1707–1771), surgeon, surgeon to [[Prince Charles Edward Stuart]] and golfer
* [[David Boswell Reid]] (1805–1863), physician, chemist and inventor
* [[Agnes Reston]] (1771–1856), wartime nurse during the [[Peninsular War]], known as the Heroine of Matagorda, for her outstanding bravery
* [[John Roberton (1776)|John Roberton]] (1776–1840), physician and social reformer
* [[John Roberton (1797)|John Roberton]] (1797–1876), physician and social reformer
* [[Thomas Ferguson Rodger]] (1907–1978), physician, [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] brigadier, and Professor of [[Psychological Medicine]]
* [[Elizabeth Ness MacBean Ross]] (1878–1915), physician who worked in [[Iran|Persia]], and died in Serbia
* [[Catherine Roy|Catherine Murray Roy]], military nurse during World War I, awarded the [[Military Medal]] for conspicuous gallantry
* [[John Rutherford (physician)|John Rutherford]] (1695–1779), physician and professor at the [[University of Edinburgh Medical School]]; grandfather of [[Walter Scott|Sir Walter Scott]]
* [[Helenus Scott]] (1760–1821), physician, active in India
* [[Lyall Stuart Scott]] (1920–1977), surgeon and urologist
* [[Thomas Shortt]] (1788–1843), army physician, who drafted [[Napoleon]]'s official autopsy report
* [[James Young Simpson]] (1811–1870), introduced chloroform into surgery
* [[David Skae]] (1814–1873), physician who specialised in psychological medicine
* [[Alexander Small]] (1710–1794), surgeon and scholar
* [[John Smith (dentist)|John Smith]] (1825–1910), dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator, founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry
* [[James Carmichael Smyth (physician)|James Carmichael Smyth]] (1741–1821), physician and medical writer
* [[William Somerville (physician)|William Somerville]] (1771–1860), physician, inspector of the Army Medical Board, husband of [[Mary Somerville]]
* [[James Syme]] (1799–1870), pioneering surgeon
* [[Michael Waistell Taylor]] (1824–1892), physician and antiquary
* [[Thomas Stewart Traill]] (1781–1862), physician, chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist, zoologist and scholar of [[medical jurisprudence]]
* [[Gordon Turnbull]], psychiatrist and author
* [[Andrew Ure]] (1778–1857), physician, scholar and [[chemist]]
* [[Charles Howard Usher]] (1865–1942), ophthalmologist
* [[James Wardrop]] (1782–1869), surgeon and ophthalmologist
* [[Robert Watt (bibliographer)|Robert Watt]] (1774–1819), physician and bibliographer
* [[Alexander Allan Innes Wedderburn]] (9 May 1935 – 23 February 2017), psychologist and emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Heriot-Watt University.
* [[David Wilkie (surgeon)|Sir David Wilkie]] (1882–1938), surgeon, pioneer of surgical research and undergraduate teaching
* [[Robert Willis (physician)|Robert Willis]] (1799–1878), physician, librarian, and medical historian
* [[James Wilson (anatomist)|James Wilson]] (1765–1821), anatomist
* [[Nairn Wilson|Professor Nairn Hutchison Fulton Wilson]] (born 1950), Honorary Professor of Dentistry, former Dean and Head of King's College London Dental Institute
* [[Alexander Wood (surgeon)|Alexander Wood]] (1725–1807), surgeon, and friend of the poet Robert Burns
* [[Alexander Wood (physician)|Alexander Wood]] (1817–1884), physician, inventor of the first true [[hypodermic syringe]]
* [[John McLeod (surgeon)]] (<abbr>c.</abbr> 1777 – 1820), naval surgeon and travel writer