Honorary Fellows

RCSI Honorary Fellows since its foundation in 1784.

2023

• February:
  – Dr Majella Doyle (USA)
  – Professor Richard Irving (UK)
  – Dr Vivian McAllister (Canada)
  – Professor John G. Meara (USA)
  – Dr Ajit Sachdeva (USA)

2022

• July:
  – Dr Hiram Polk (USA)
• April: 
  – Professor Derek Alderson (UK)
  – Mr Roddy Doyle (Ireland)
  – Professor Stanley Goldberg (USA)
  – Professor Trevor McGill (USA)
• February:
  – Ms Amina J. Mohammed (Nigeria)

2021

• June:
  – Dr Tony Holohan (Ireland)
• February:
  – Professor Chung-Mau Lo (Hong Kong)

2020

• February:
  – The Honourable Justice Susan Denham (Ireland)
  – Dato' Dr Godfrey Geh Sim Wah (Malaysia)

2019

• December:
  – Mr Frank McDonald (Ireland)
  – Dr Valerie Rusch (USA)
• October: Mr David Agler (USA)
• July:
  – Professor Jo Shapiro (USA)
  – Professor Michael Lavell-Jones (UK)
• May: Mr Josef Schmidt (New Zealand)
• February:
  – Professor Hilary Sanfey (USA)
  – Professor John Monson (USA)
  – Professor J. Jan B. van Lanschot (Netherlands)

2018

• December: Professor Conor Delaney (USA)
• July:
  – Dr Barbara Lee Bass (USA)
  – Professor Frank A. Frizelle (New Zealand)
  – Professor Gerard M. O’Donoghue (UK)
• June: Professor Patrick Boland (USA)
• February:
  – Dr Michael Collins (USA)
  – Professor R. John Nicholls (UK)
  – Professor Jatin P. Shah (USA)

2017

• December: Professor Steven D. Wexner (USA) 
• July: Ms Clare Marx (UK) 
• February: Mr Brendan J. Moran (UK) 

2016

• November: Dr Maurice Manning (Ireland) 
• July: Professor Ernest E. Moore (USA) 
• April
  – Professor Francis Omaswa (Uganda)
  – Professor Krikor Erzingatsian (Tanzania)
  – Professor Kevin M.Cahill (USA)
• February: Michael D. Higgins (Ireland); Professor S. Michael Griffin (UK) 

2015

• December: Professor Neil Mortensen (UK) 
• November: Professor O. James Garden (UK) 
• July: Professor Alain A. Diméglio (France) 
• February:
  – Professor Patrick G. Johnston (Northern Ireland)
  – Professor Stan Monstrey (Belgium)

2014

• November: Professor Norman S. Williams (UK)
• February:
  – Professor Richard John Heald (USA)
  – Professor Donald Edward Low (Canada)

2013

• December: Mr Pádraig P. Harrington (Ireland) 
• November: Dr Berton R. Moed (USA) 
• July: Dr A. Brent Eastman (USA) 
• February:
  – Dr Ralph G. Dacey Jr (USA)
  – Professor Michael Solomon (Australia)

2012

• November: Dr Monica Morrow (USA) 
• February:
  – Professor Patrick J. Gullane (Canada)
  – Dr L. D. Britt (USA)

2011

• November: Dr Richard K. Reznick (Canada) 
• February: Mr Edward Kiely (UK); Professor Sir Bruce Edward Keogh (UK)

2010

• July: Professor T. Joseph McKenna (Ireland) 
• May: Lord Christopher Patten of Barnes (UK) 
• February:
  – Dr Michael Brennan (USA)
  – Professor John P. Collins (UK)
  – Professor Anthony J. Costello (Australia)
  – Professor Peter Lee (UK)

2009

• December:
  – Dr John Herring (USA)
  – Mr John Orr (UK)
  – Professor Brian Owen Williams (UK)
  – Mr Michael Horgan (Ireland) 
• November:
  – Dr Victor W. Fazio (USA)
  – Mr Christopher Russell (UK) 
• July:
  – Dr Delos Cosgrove (USA)
  – Mr Eric Johnson (USA) 
• February:
  – Professor Carlos A. Pellegrini (USA)
  – Dr Ronnie Delaney (Ireland)

2008

• December: Dr Jay L Grosfeld (USA) 
• November: Dr Patricia Donahoe (USA) 
• July: Tan Sri Datuk Dr Ismail Merican (Malaysia) 
• February:
  – Professor Gerald B Healy (USA)
  – Mr Bernard Ribeiro (UK)

2007

• December:
  – HRH Prince AbdulAziz bin Ahmed Al-Saud (Saudi Arabia)
  – Professor Roger M. Greenhalgh (UK)
• November:
  – Professor Laureano Fernández Cruz (Spain)
  – Professor John Wong (Hong Kong) 
• June:
  – President James Earl Carter Jr (USA)
  – Professor Alan Johnson (Ireland)
• May: Sir Bob Geldof (Ireland) 
• April:
  – Professor John Daly (USA)
  – Professor John Mannick (USA)
  – Professor Michael Molloy (Ireland) 
• February:
  – Professor Kader Asmal (South Africa)
  – Professor Edward M. Copeland (USA)
  – Professor Tom Ryan DeMeester (USA)

2006

• November: Mr Seamus Mallon (Northern Ireland) 
• July: Professor Sir Graham Teasdale (UK) 
• March: King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (Bahrain) 
• February:
  – Dr Kathryn Anderson (USA)
  – Professor Sir Peter Morris (UK)

2005

• December: Professor Ross Lorimer (UK) 
• July:
  – Professor Lewis Spitz (UK)
  – Professor David George (UK)
  – Dr James Kellam (USA) 
• April: Dr Loretta Brennan Glucksman (USA) 
• February:
  – Dr Samuel Wells Jr (USA)
  – Mr John A.R. Smith (UK)

2004

• December: Fr Peter McVerry (Ireland) 
• July:
  – Sister Doctor Ann Ward (Ireland)
  – Professor Wayne Morrison (Australia)
  – Professor Ian Taylor (Australia)
• March: H. H. Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al- Maktoum (United Arab Emirates) 
• February:
  – Professor Sir John Temple (UK) 
  – Professor Kevin O’Malley (Ireland)

2003

• December: Professor Dr Antoon Lerut (Belgium) 
• October: H. H. Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa (Bahrain)
• July:
  – Dato’ Dr Rasiah Ratnalingam (Malaysia)
  – Mr Andrew Novick (USA) 
• May: Mr Dermot Desmond (Ireland) 
• February:
  – Professor S. C. Sydney Chung (Hong Kong)
  – Dr Andrew von Eschenbach (USA)
  – Dr Patrick Walsh (USA)

2002

• December: Professor William A. L. MacGowan (Ireland) 
• November: Senator George Mitchell (Northern Ireland) 
• February:
  – Dr Leslie Blumgart (USA)
  – Dr Garret Fitzgerald (Ireland)

2001

• July: Professor Jacques Perissat (France) 
• February: Professor David B. Skinner (USA)

2000

• July: Mr Barry Jackson (UK) 
• February: Dr Clyde Barker (USA) 
• March: His Majesty Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Alhaj, The Yang di-Pertuan Agong XI (Malaysia)

1999

• February: Dr Judah Folkman (USA)

1998

• November: Professor Arthur Li (Hong Kong) 
• July: Dr John Donohoe (Scottsdale) 
• May: Dr Mary McAleese (Ireland) 
• March: Dr D. P. Gordon Smith (South Africa) 
• February:
  – Professor Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
  – Senator Edward Haughey (Ireland)
  – Dr Robert Waller (USA)

1997

• December: Professor Keith Kelly (USA) 
• July: Professor Norman Mackay (UK) 
• February:
  – Sir Kenneth Calman (UK)
  – Dr Michael W. J. Smurfit (Ireland)
  – Sir Rodney Sweetnam (UK)

1996

• May:
  – Professor Alfred Cuschieri (UK)
• – Sir David Carter (UK) 
• February:
  – Professor Mohamed Hassan (Sudan)
  – Professor Sir Robert Shields (UK)
  – Professor John Terblanche (South Africa) 
• April: Mr Nelson Mandela (South Africa)

1995

• February:
  – Professor Sir Norman Browse (UK)
  – Professor Hiroshi Akiyama (Tokyo)
  – Sheikh Isa Bin Salman Al Khalifa (Bahrain)
  – Sir Gordon Beveridge (Northern Ireland) 

1994

• July: Sir Donald Campbell (UK) 
• February: Dr Mary Robinson (Ireland)

1993

• December: Professor Patrick Boulter (UK)
• November:
  – Professor N. E. Shumway (USA)
  – Lord Paul Hamlyn (UK) 
• June: Mother Teresa of Calcutta (India) 
• March: Dr Thomas Mitchell (Ireland) 
• February:
  – Dr T. K. Whitaker (Ireland)
  – Professor Dr Ossama Shobokshi (Saudi Arabia)

1992

• November:
  – Sir Terence English (UK)
  – Professor J. S. Doyle (Ireland) 
• July: Professor John Blandy (UK) 
• February:
  – Professor Michael Trede (Germany)
  – Dr John Lemuel Cameron (USA)

1991

• October:
  – Tan Sri Dato' Dr Abu Bakar Suleiman (Malaysia)
  – Dato Datuk Sri Y. A. B Mahathir (Malaysia)
  – His Majesty Sultan Azlan Shah, The Yang di-Pertuan Agong IX  (Malaysia)
• July:
  – Professor Sean Liam Sellars (UK)
  – Sir Donald Harrison (UK)
  – Mr Manus F. Moran (UK) 
• February:
  – Dr Donald Trunkey (USA)
  – Professor John Harrison (USA)

1990

• July: Dr Murray Brennan (USA) 
• February:
  – Professor William Hendren (USA)
  – Professor Thomas J. P. McDonald (USA)

1989

• December: Professor M. Rosen
• November:
  – Dr Tan Ngoh Chuan (Singapore)
  – Professor Yeoh Seng (Singapore) 
• July:
  – Mr Ronald Johnson-Gilbert (UK)
  – Dr Jonathan Rhoads (USA)
  – Dr R. Robinson-Baker (USA) 
• May: Dr Joseph E. Murray (USA) 
• February: Professor Selim Abraham Mellick (Australia)

1988

• December: Professor R. B. Dockrell (Ireland) 
• February:
  – Sir Peter Froggatt (Northern Ireland)
  – Mr Lindsay Stewart (UK) 
• May:
  – Dr Frank Spencer (USA)
  – Dr Paul Ebert (USA) 
• June: Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Abdulla bin Abdullaziz Al Saud (Saudi Arabia)

1987

• December: Professor Douglas Bryce (Canada) 
• September: Mr Donald MacLeish (Australia) 
• July:
  – Mr Harold Nixon (UK)
  – Mr E. Durham Smith (Australia)
  – Dr Lloyd Nyhus (USA)
• February:
  – Dr Thomas Starzl (USA)
  – Mr George Pinker (UK)

1986

• July:
  – Dr David Sabiston (USA)
  – Professor Patrick Joyce (Ireland) 
• February:
  – Professor Abdel Lutfi (Saudi Arabia)
  – Dr William P. Longmore (USA)

1985

• June: Dr Bernard O’Brien McCarthy (Australia) 
• February: Professor Roger Boles (USA)

1984

• November: Dr John Gilbert Kirker (Ireland) 
• September:
  – Mr Donald Nixon Ross (UK)
  – Dr Denton Cooley (USA)
  – Professor Peter P. Rickham (Switzerland)
  – Professor George Nager (USA)
  – Professor P. Gilroy Bevan (UK)
  – Professor Oliver H. Beahrs (USA) 
• July:
  – Mr David Williams (UK)
  – Mr K. E. D. Shuttleworth (UK)
  – Professor Gerald E. Murnaghan (Australia) 
• June: Professor Gerard W. Taylor (UK)
• May: Professor Thomas Murphy (Ireland)  
• March:
  – Professor Alan D. H. Browne (Ireland)
  – Sir Rustam Moolan-Feroze (UK) 
• February:
  – Mr Ian McGregor (UK)
  – Ms Phyllis Knocker (South Africa)
  – Dr Mervyn Keith Smyth
  – Professor Geoffrey Slaney (UK)
  – Professor Mikhail Kouzin (Russia)
  – Sir James Fraser (UK)
  – Professor Fritz Linder (Germany)
  – Dr Harry Bahnson (USA)

1983

• March: Mr John Clarebrought (Australia) 
• February: Professor John E. Connolly (USA)

1982

• November: Mr Robert Pracy (UK) 
• June: Professor John Gillingham (UK) 
• April: Mr Na’il Ahmed Al-Nageeb (Kuwait) 
• February:
  Lieutenant General Isidor Papo (Serbia)
  Dr Tawfik Mohammad Al-Tamini (Saudi Arabia)
  Mr Douglas Henderson Clark (UK)

1981

• July: Dr Loyal Davis (USA) 
• February:
  – Dr David Utz (USA)
  – Professor A. G. R. Maurice Mercadier (France)
  – Dr Harry O’Flanagan (Ireland)

1980

• June: Professor Ahmed Yacoub (Sudan) 
• May: Major Dr Daoud Anastas Hanania (Jordan)
• February: Sir Reginald Murley (UK)

1979

• September: Professor Warren Cole (USA) 
• March:
  – Mr Ronald H. R. Belsey (UK)
  – Dr John Webster Kirklin (USA) 
• February: Sir Andrew Watt Kay (UK)

1978

• November:
  – Mr Victor F. Marshall (USA)
  – Professor Janusz Wifold Rudowski (Poland) 
• March:
  – Professor J. Englebert Dunphy (USA)
  – Professor Robert Bruce Salter (Canada)  
• February:
  – Dr Cyril Rollins Hanlon (USA)
  – Mr Andrew Wilkinson (UK)

1977

• October:
  – Mr Dermot Pierse (UK)
  – Dr Patrick John Hillery (Ireland) 
• February:
  – Sir Edward Hughes (Australia)
  – Professor John Cedric Goligher (UK)
  – Dr Orla Knutrud (Norway)

1976

• October: Professor Christopher John Dewhurst (UK) 
• September: Sir Harry Platt (UK) 
• July:
  – Professor Charles George Drake (Canada)
  – Sir John Arthur Stallworthy (UK) 
• April:
  – Sir Rodney Smith (UK)
  – Mr Harold Browne (Ireland)
  – Mr Patrick Cyril Carey (Ireland)
  – Mr James Alexander Ross (UK)
  – Professor Leonard Jongkees (Netherlands)
  – Dr Francis Sooey (USA)
  – Professor John Hartwell Harrison (USA)

1975

• November: Professor Cearbhall Ó’Dálaigh (Ireland)  
• October: Dr Bentley Colcock (USA) 
• April: Sir T. Holmes Sellors (UK) 
• February:
  – Professor John D. H. Widdess (Ireland)
  – John Chalmers Ballantyne (UK)
  – Michel Portmann (France)

1974

• Thomas George Gilmartin (Ireland) 
• Jan Hendrick Louw (South Africa)

1973

• Denis Parsons Burkitt (UK)
• Donal MacLeod Douglas (UK)
• Francis Daniels Moore (USA)

1972

• John Corcoran (Ireland)
• Patrick Kiely (Ireland)
• George Dale Zuidema (USA)

1971

• Philip Sandblom (Sweden)

1970

• Paul Holinger (USA) 
• Horatio Orishejolomi Thomas (Nigeria) 
• Owen Harding Wangensteen (USA)

1969 

• Sir Clifford Nauton Morgan (UK) 
• Orvar Swenson (USA) 
• Norman Cecil Tanner (UK) 
• Robert Bransby Zachary (UK)

1968

• Frank Bergan (Norway) 
• The Lord Moyne (Ireland) 
• Walter MacKenzie (Canada)  
• Pietro Valdoni (Italy) 

1967 

• Leonard Bailey (UK) 
• Michael Ellis De Bakey (USA) 
• James William Hinton (USA) 

1966

• The Rev. Mother Mary Martin (Ireland)  
• Jan Nuboer (Netherlands) 
• Sir Terence Cawthorne (UK)

1965

• Lionel Becher Somerville-Large (Ireland) 
• Louis Emil Werner (Ireland) 
• The Lord Brock (UK) 

1964 

• Éamon De Valera (Ireland) 
• Erik Husfeldt (Denmark) 
• Sir Charles Illingworth (UK) 
• Sir Arthur Porritt (UK)

1963

• Arthur Dickson Wright (UK) 
• Boris Petrovsky (Russia) 
• Sir John Bruce (UK) 

1962

• Clarence Crafoord (Sweden) 
• Thomas Columba James O'Connell (Ireland)  
• Patrick Alexis Martin Fitzgerald (Ireland)  

1961 

• Isadore S. Ravdin (USA) 
• Edmund Price Fowler (USA) 
• Rt Hon. Lord Iveagh (Ireland) 
• E. Dahl-Iverson (Denmark)  
• Alton Ochsner (USA) 

1960 

• Sir Stanford Cade (UK)

1959

• Sir Ernest Finch (UK) 
• Sir Archibold McIndoe (UK) 

1958

• Oscar Theron Clagett (USA)
• Sean T. O'Ceallaigh (Ireland)
• Georges Portmann (France)
• Sir Victor Ewings Negus (UK)
• Eelco Huizinga (Netherlands)
• Sir Walter Mercer (UK)

1957

• Thomas Joseph Daniel Lane (Ireland)

1956

• Richard Cattell (USA)
• Sir Clement Price Thomas (UK)

1954

• Sir Cecil Pembrey Grey (UK)

1953

• Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor (UK)

1952

• Sir Geoffrey Jefferson (UK)

1948 

• Sir Alfred Webb-Johnston (UK)

1939

• Sir Henry Wade (UK)

1934

• William Ernest Miles (UK)

1933

• Dean Lewis (USA) 

1931 

• George Eli Armstrong (USA)
• Sir Hugh Mallison Rigby (UK)

1927

• Hugh Hampton Young (USA)

1923

• Sir Harold J. Stiles (UK)

1921

• William J. Mayo (USA) 
• Charles Horace Mayo (USA) 
• George Emerson Brewer (USA) 
• William Williams Keen (USA) 
• George W. Crile (USA) 
• Richard Harte (USA) 
• Albert John Ochsner (USA) 
• John Miller Turpin Finney (USA)

1919

• Sir Charles H. Burtchaell (Ireland)
• Arthur William Patrick (UK)

1918

• Harvey Cushing (USA)

1913

• Sir William Launcelot Gubbins (Ireland)
• Sir Berkely Moynihan (UK)

1912

• Sir Henry Morris (UK)
• Sir William Macewen (UK)
• Sir Robert Jones (UK)
• Irvine Howard Cameron (Canada)

1907

• Priesy Smith (UK)

1906

• Henri Hartmann (France)
• Sir Alfred Henry Keogh (Ireland) 
• Sir Almroth Edward Wright (UK)

1905

• Anthony Traill (Ireland) 

1902

• Thomas Joseph Crean (Ireland)

1892

• John Shaw Billings (USA)
• Thomas Bryant (UK) 
• Adolph Gusserow (Germany)  
• Herman Snellen (Netherlands) 

1891

• Sir William Mackinnon (UK)

1889

• Thomas Heazle Parke (Ireland)

1887

• Sir John Eric Erichsen (UK) 
• Sir George Macleod (UK) 
• Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (UK) 
• Sir Patrick Heron Watson (UK) 
• Charles MacNamara (UK)

1886

• Louis Pasteur (France) 
• Sir Joseph Lister (UK) 
• Sir James Paget (UK) 
• John Marshall (UK)
• Thomas Henry Huxley (UK) 
• Sir Thomas Spencer Wells (UK) 

1883 

• Sir Thomas Crawford (USA)
• Sir James Arthur Hanbury (Ireland)

1881

• Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (Germany) 

1873

• Samuel Haughton (Ireland) 

1869

• Sir Thomas Galbraith Logan (UK) 
• Edmund Alexander Parkes (UK) 
• Sir Alexander Armstrong (Ireland)  
• John Brady (Ireland)

1867

• James Syme (UK)
• Sir William Bowman (UK)

1860

• Sir James Brown Gibson (UK)
• William Charles Humfrey (UK)

1855

• George Gulliver (UK)

1850

• Henry Franklin (Ireland)

1849

• Sir Richard Owen (UK)
• Sir James Pitcairn (UK)

1844

• Sir William Burnett (UK)
• Sir John Webb (UK)

1838

• Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (UK)
• Sir George Ballingall (UK)

1836

• Jules-Germain Cloquet (France) 
• Friedrich Tiedemann (Germany)

1831

• Baron Georges Cuvier (France)

1820

• John Abernethy (UK)
• John Pearson (UK) 
• Sir Astley Paston Cooper (UK) 
• Antonio Scarpa (Italy) 
• Samuel Thomas Von Soemmerring (Germany)

1818

• Sir James McGrigor (UK)

1812

• William Hey (UK)

1790

• John Hunter (UK)

1788

• Percival Pott (UK)

1786

• Antoine Louis (France)
• Silvester O'Halloran (Ireland)

1784

• Robert (Robin) Adair (Ireland & UK)
• Benjamin Bell (UK) 
• Richard Houghton (Ireland)