15 British gynaecologists

Florence Elizabeth, Lady Barrett, was a consultant surgeon at the Mothers' Hospital in Clapton and the Royal Free Hospital in London. She was one of the leading gynaecologists and obstetricians of her time.

William Blair-Bell was a British medical doctor and gynaecologist who was most notable as the founder of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1929. Blair-Bell was considered the greatest gynaecologist of the 20th century, raising it from what was then a branch of general surgery into a separate medical specialism. He was subject of a biography by Sir John H. Peel.

Peter Robert Brinsden MBBS, MRCS, LRCP, FRCOG is known for the treatment of infertility in couples. From 1989 to 2006 he was the medical director of Bourn Hall Clinic in the UK, a leading centre for the treatment of fertility problems, and where about 6,000 babies have been conceived using IVF and other assisted conception treatments.

Sir John Halliday Croom FRSE PRCPE PRCSE was a Scottish surgeon and medical author. He served as President of both the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Archibald Donald was consulting gynaecological surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Victoria University of Manchester. Donald was notable for routinely sterilising catgut sutures and for a surgical repair technique for Uterine prolapse that later became known as the Fothergills Repair and later still became known as the Manchester operation

Norman Haire, born Norman Zions was an Australian medical practitioner and sexologist. He has been called "the most prominent sexologist in Britain" between the wars.

Arthur Francis Hamilton CIE, MC, FRCS, FRCOG was a British doctor who was an officer of the Indian Medical Service (IMS). He won the Military Cross during the First World War, and was later professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Grant Medical College, India.

Mary Hannah Frances Ivens CBE FRCOG was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who was the first woman appointed to a hospital consultant post in Liverpool. During the First World War she was chief medical officer at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont, northeast of Paris. For her services to the French forces she was awarded the Légion d'honneur and the Croix de Guerre.

Professor Henry Kitchener, MD FRCOG FRCS(Glas) FMedSci, is a leading British expert in gynaecological oncology, based at the University of Manchester. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Dame Anne Louise McIlroy, known as Louise McIlroy, was a distinguished and honoured Irish-born British physician, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology. She was both the first woman to be awarded a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree and to register as a research student at the University of Glasgow. She was also the first woman medical professor in the United Kingdom.

Elliot Philipp was a British gynaecologist and obstetrician who worked with Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in developing in-vitro fertilisation and authored The Technique of Sex (1939) with the assistance of Sigmund Freud.

Donald Whatley Roy (1881-1960) was a British obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Samaritan Hospital for Women and St George's Hospital, London. He served with the Royal Navy and then with the Royal Army Medical Corps at the Northampton War Hospital during the First World War. He was a foundation fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Patrick Christopher Steptoe CBE FRS was a British obstetrician and gynaecologist and a pioneer of fertility treatment. Steptoe was responsible with biologist and physiologist Robert Edwards and the nurse Jean Purdy for developing in vitro fertilisation. Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born on 25 July 1978. Edwards was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the development of in vitro fertilisation; Steptoe was not eligible for consideration because the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously.

John Webster FRCOG is an English obstetrician and gynaecologist. Present at the world's first IVF birth, Louise Brown, Dr Webster has continued to develop and further research in the field of IVF .

Charles Richard Whitfield FRCOG, FRCP(G) was a Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist who was a pioneer of maternal-fetal (perinatal) medicine. His primary interest was in fetal medicine, a branch of obstetrics and gynaecology that focuses on the assessment of the development, growth and health of the baby in the womb. He was also an early proponent of subspecialisation within the fields of obstetrics and gynaecology, a practice that is common today.