1609 - 1690
Skilled lithotomist who operated on Samuel Pepys
1678 - 1747
Founder of the French Royal Academy of Surgery
1688 - 1752
Protagonist of suprapubic stone removal
1811 - 1870
Belgian by birth but worked in Holland and France
1820 - 1904
Extraordinary polymath and expert urethral stone surgeon
1834 - 1912
Performed the first successful endoscopic treatments
1886 - 1971
Highly-decorated soldier and first President of BAUS
1837 - 1908
Expert in Bigelow's litholapaxy operation
1846 - 1890
Performed UK's first retropubic prostatectomy
1852 - 1921
Popularised litholapaxy & transvesical prostatectomy
1853 - 1939
Well known for his writings on rectal and urinary surgery
1856 - 1944
One of the earliest adopters of the cystoscope
1860 - 1912
Cuban-born and nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1912
1870 - 1945
Radical prostatectomist & "father of American urology"
1871 - 1937
First urologist to perform retrograde ureterography
1876 - 1944
Irish-born surgeon with lifelong interest in stones
1878 - 1934
Co-founder of the British Journal of Urology in 1929
1881 - 1975
Pioneered radiotherapy for cancer of the urinary tract
1889 - 1960
Adviser on the development of the NHS
1889 - 1962
Co-founder of the British Journal of Urology
1890 - 1976
Known for his classification of cancer of the rectum
1896 - 1973
A founder member and, later, President of BAUS
1897 - 1987
Described a popular new cystoscope and attachments
1899 - 1974
Widely recognised as "the father of urology in Glasgow"
1901 - 1988
An original, founder member of the Council of BAUS
1903 - 1980
Expert in retropubic prostatectomy & TURP
1908 - 1970
Expert in male infertility and renal tuberculosis
1925 - 2020
CBE, DSc, DM, MCh, FRCP, FRCS, FACS, FRACS Hon
1927 - 2011
MA, DM, FRCS, FACS
1929 - 2017
A "godfather" of robotic surgery
1859 - 1934
Founder of All Saints Hospital
1882 - 1960
First to describe occupational bladder cancer in the UK
1903 - 1966
Early advocate of the prostatic punch
1902 - 1973
Surgeon to the French Resistance
1692 - 1774
18th Century quack or medical pioneer?
1882 - 1965
First female BAUS member
1895 - 1985
A founder member of BAUS
1831 - 1920
All the urologists of the world were his pupils
1850 - 1945
A link between Victorian & modern urology
1651 - 1714
The stonecutter Frère Jacques
1884 - 1956
Identified Barrington's nucleus
1802 - 1871
"The Best Stone Surgeon in the North of Scotland"