Murray Llewellyn Barr was born near Belmont, Ontario in 1908. His formal education was at the University of Western Ontario, where he obtained his M.D. in 1933. Dr. Barr had a remarkable medical career beginning when he identified the sex chromatin body, now known as the Barr body.

In 1890, Norman Bethune was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario. He went to the University of Toronto, where his education was interrupted when he enlisted as a stretcher bearer in World War I. He received his M.D. in 1916.

Born in 1945, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Roberta Lynn Bondar has always had an interest in science and space. She earned a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. before obtaining her M.D. from McMaster University in 1977. Dr. Bondar realized her dream in 1992, when she was the first Canadian woman to travel in space.

Thomas Clement Douglas was born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1904 and emigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his family in 1910. He earned his B.A. at Brandon College and graduated with his M.A. from McMaster University in 1933. Two years later, Douglas won his first election.

In 1897, Ray Fletcher Farquharson was born in Claude, Ontario. He entered medical school at the University of Toronto in the fall of 1917 and left in the spring of 1918 to enlist as a gunner in the Canadian Field Artillery. His artillery career was brief, as he was recalled from the army to resume his medical studies. Farquharson graduated in 1922.

Charles Miller Fisher was born in Waterloo, Ontario in 1913. He attended the University of Toronto Medical School and graduated in 1938. During the Second World War, Dr. Fisher was in a German prison camp for three and a half years. He became the doctor for the other prisoners and took the opportunity to learn German.

Born in Montreal, Claude Fortier received his medical degree from the University of Montreal in 1948. Dr. Fortier had a passionate commitment to the common good of medicine in Canada. He offered his services to numerous medical organizations in Canada and was a strong advocate of clinical research.

In 1918, Gustave Gingras was born in Montreal, Quebec. He graduated from the University of Montreal medical school in 1943 and would go on to become one of the greatest names in Canadian medicine. People around the world consider Dr. Gingras to be the "Ambassador for the Handicapped".

Born in Chengtu, West China in 1915, Harold Elford Johns came to Canada to make his worldwide impact on medicine. He obtained his B.A. from McMaster University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Dr. Johns took great strides in the fight against cancer.

Berlin, Germany is the birthplace of Heinz E. Lehmann, who was born in 1911. He received his M.D. at the University of Berlin in 1935. Two years later he came to Canada, where he would become a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1948. Dr. Lehmann has an international reputation for his role as a pioneer in psychiatric clinical investigation.

In 1879, in Port Lambton, Ontario, Maud Lenora Menten was born. Graduating from the University of Toronto in 1913, Menten was one of the first Canadian women to receive a medical degree. That same year, along with Dr. Leonor Michaelis, Menten introduced a concept that forever changed the study of biological reactions and helped to shape the field of biochemistry.