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{{Infobox hospital
| Name = St Mary's Hospital
| Org/Group = [[Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust]]
| Image = St Mary's Hospital.jpg
| Caption = The Clarence Memorial Wing at St Mary's Hospital
| Logo = <!-- optional -->
| Location = [[Paddington]]
| Region = [[London]]
| State = England
| Country = United Kingdom
| Coordinates = {{coord|51|31|2|N|0|10|23|W|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| HealthCare = [[National Health Service (England)|National Health Service]]
| funding = Public
| Type = Teaching
| Speciality = <!-- if devoted to a speciality, i.e. not if has broad spectrum of specialities -->
| Standards = <!-- optional if no national standards -->
| Emergency = [[Major Trauma Centre]] – (adult and children)
| beds = 484<ref>{{Cite web |title=All inspections: St Mary's Hospital - Care Quality Commission |url=https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/RYJ01/reports |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.cqc.org.uk}}</ref>
| Affiliation = [[Imperial College London]]
| Founded = {{Start date and age|1845|df=yes}}
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| website = {{Official URL}}
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| map_type = United Kingdom London Westminster
| map_caption = Shown in Westminster|
}}
'''St Mary's Hospital''' is a [[teaching hospital]] in [[Paddington]], in the [[City of Westminster]], London, founded in 1845. Since the UK's first [[academic health science centre]] was created in 2008, it has been operated by [[Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust]], which also operates [[Charing Cross Hospital]], [[Hammersmith Hospital]], [[Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital]] and the [[Western Eye Hospital]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/ourhospitals/index.htm|title=Our hospitals|work=imperial.nhs.uk|access-date=20 August 2013|archive-date=2 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202094814/http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/ourhospitals/index.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Until 1988 the hospital ran [[St Mary's Hospital Medical School]], part of the federal [[University of London]]. In 1988 it merged with [[Imperial College London]], and then with [[Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School]] in 1997 to form [[Imperial College School of Medicine]]. In 2007 Imperial College became an independent institution when it withdrew from the [[University of London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.london.ac.uk/495.html|title=University of London: Updated position statement re: Imperial College London|work=london.ac.uk|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210104621/http://www.london.ac.uk/495.html|archivedate=10 December 2006}}</ref>

==History==
===Development of the hospital===
[[File:St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. Coloured lithograph Wellcome V0013627.jpg|thumb|The original block in Norfolk Place]]
The original block of St Mary's Hospital in Norfolk Place was designed by [[Thomas Hopper (architect)|Thomas Hopper]] in the [[Classical architecture|classical style]].<ref>{{cite web |first1=T. F. T. |last1=Baker |first2=Diane K |last2=Bolton |first3=Patricia E C |last3=Croot |title='Paddington: Public Services', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington, ed. C R Elrington |location=London |year=1989 |pages=246–252 |via=British History Online |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp246-252 |access-date=18 November 2018 |archive-date=25 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625183532/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp246-252 |url-status=live }}</ref> It first opened its doors to patients in 1851, the last of the great [[voluntary hospital]]s to be founded.<ref name=rsm>{{cite journal|pmc=1079568|title=St Mary's: the History of a London Teaching Hospital|journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine|volume=97|issue=8|pages=405–406|date=1 August 2004|last1=Ballantyne|first1=J.|doi=10.1177/014107680409700816}}</ref> Among St Mary's founders was the surgeon [[Isaac Baker Brown]], a controversial figure who performed numerous [[clitoridectomy|clitoridectomies]] at the London Surgical Home, his hospital for women, and who "immediately set to work to remove the [[clitoris]] whenever he had the opportunity of doing so."<ref name="Allen2000">{{cite book|author=Peter L. Allen|title=The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present|url=https://archive.org/details/wagesofsinsexdis00alle|url-access=registration|date=June 2000|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-01460-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wagesofsinsexdis00alle/page/106 106]–}}</ref> It was at St Mary's Hospital that [[Charles Romley Alder Wright|C.R. Alder Wright]] first synthesized [[Heroin|diamorphine]] in 1874.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/26/coughs-and-headaches/|title=Heroin, prescribed for coughs and headaches, was a trademarked medicine produced by Bayer company|publisher=Vintage News|date=26 November 2017|first=Stefan|last=Andrews|access-date=20 April 2018|archive-date=25 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425114723/http://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/26/coughs-and-headaches/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Clarence Memorial Wing, designed by [[William Emerson (British architect)|Sir William Emerson]] and built with its main frontage on Praed Street, opened in 1904.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1265525|desc=Clarence Memorial Wing of St Mary's Hospital|access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref> It was at the hospital that [[Alexander Fleming]] discovered [[penicillin]] in 1928.<ref name=fleming>{{cite web|title=Fleming Museum|url=http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/ourhospitals/museumsandarchives/index.htm|publisher=Imperial College Healthcare|access-date=24 March 2015|archive-date=3 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103033544/http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/ourhospitals/museumsandarchives/index.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Fleming's laboratory has been restored and incorporated into a museum about the discovery and his life and work.<ref name=fleming/>{{NoteTag|The museum is open to the public from Monday to Thursday from 10am to 1pm and can be visited by appointment outside of these times. The museum is a member of [[the London Museums of Health & Medicine]].<ref>{{cite web |title = Medical Museums |url = http://medicalmuseums.org/ |website = medicalmuseums.org |access-date = 26 August 2016 |archive-date = 8 December 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221208010841/http://www.medicalmuseums.org/ |url-status = live }}</ref>}} 
 
The private Lindo wing, where there have been several royal and celebrity births, opened in November 1937;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22983365|title=10 curious things about the royal birth|publisher=BBC News|date=20 June 2013|access-date=20 June 2013|archive-date=20 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620165609/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22983365|url-status=live}}</ref> it was financed by businessman and hospital board member Frank Charles Lindo, who made a large donation before his death in 1938.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rayner|first=Gordon|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10195549/Royal-baby-12000-buys-Duchess-peace-of-mind-at-Lindo-Wing.html|title=Royal baby: £12,000 buys Duchess peace of mind at Lindo Wing|work=The Telegraph|date=22 July 2013|access-date=5 May 2015|archive-date=26 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926043323/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10195549/Royal-baby-12000-buys-Duchess-peace-of-mind-at-Lindo-Wing.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Following the 1944 publication of a report by Sir [[William Goodenough]] advocating a minimum size for teaching hospitals,<ref>{{cite web|url= http://navigator.health.org.uk/content/goodenough-committee-was-published-1944|title= The Goodenough Committee was published in 1944|publisher= Policy Navigator|access-date= 24 April 2018|archive-date= 25 April 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180425032018/http://navigator.health.org.uk/content/goodenough-committee-was-published-1944|url-status= dead}}</ref> and following the formation of the [[National Health Service]] in the 1948, several local hospitals became affiliated to St Mary's Hospital. These included [[Paddington General Hospital]],<ref name=pgh>{{cite web|url= https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/stmarysharrowroad.html|title= St Mary's Hospital (Harrow Rd)|publisher= Lost hospitals of London|access-date= 24 April 2018|archive-date= 28 July 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180728153805/http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/stmarysharrowroad.html|url-status= live}}</ref> the [[Samaritan Hospital for Women]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/samaritan.html |title= Samaritan Hospital for Women |publisher= Lost hospitals of London |access-date= 24 April 2018 |archive-date= 28 July 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180728154535/http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/samaritan.html |url-status= live }}</ref> and the [[Western Eye Hospital]].<ref>{{cite web |url = https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/westerneye.html |title = Western Eye Hospital |publisher = Lost Hospitals of London |access-date = 24 April 2018 |archive-date = 28 July 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180728154148/http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/westerneye.html |url-status = live }}</ref>
 
In the 1950s, Felix Eastcott, a consultant surgeon and deputy director of the surgical unit at St Mary's Hospital, carried out pioneering work on [[carotid endarterectomy]] designed to reduce the risk of [[stroke]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6971878.ece | location=London | work=The Times | title=Felix Eastcott, arterial surgeon | date=31 December 2009 | access-date=24 April 2018 | archive-date=25 May 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525005634/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6971878.ece | url-status=dead }}</ref> Paddington General Hospital closed and relocated services to the Paddington basin site in November 1986<ref name=pgh/> and, in common with the other London teaching hospitals who lost their independence at that time, the medical school of St Mary's Hospital merged with that of [[Imperial College London]] in 1988.<ref name=rsm/>

In 1987, as part of on-going rationalisation within the NHS, the hundred-year-old [[Paddington Green Children's Hospital]] was closed down, the [[listed building]]s sold off and its services absorbed into St Mary's.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/paddingtongreen.html|title=Paddington Green Children's Hospital|publisher=Lost Hospitals of London|access-date=7 July 2018|archive-date=28 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728150443/http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/paddingtongreen.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Notable births===
'''Royal family'''
<!-- in chronological order --> 
*[[Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster]] (born 1974){{spaced ndash}} son of the [[Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester|Duke]] and [[Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester|Duchess of Gloucester]]<ref>{{cite book|first=Marlene A.|last=Eilers|title=Queen Victoria's Descendants|location=Baltimore, Maryland|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Co.|year=1987|page=174}}</ref>
*[[Lady Davina Windsor]] (born 1977){{spaced ndash}} daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://newspaperarchive.com/us/texas/corsicana/corsicana-daily-sun/1977/11-27/page-9?tag=lady+davina&rtserp=tags/?pep=lady-davina|title = Duchess Leaves With Baby|date = 27 November 1977|work = Corsicana Daily Sun|access-date = 4 February 2016|via = Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
*[[Peter Phillips]] (born 1977){{spaced ndash}}son of [[Anne, Princess Royal|the Princess Royal]] and [[Mark Phillips]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/15/newsid_2539000/2539937.stm|title=1977: Princess Anne gives birth to Master Phillips|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=15 November 1977|access-date=9 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060416103647/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/15/newsid_2539000/2539937.stm|archive-date=16 April 2006|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Lord Frederick Windsor]] (born 1979){{spaced ndash}}son of [[Prince Michael of Kent|Prince]] and [[Princess Michael of Kent]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/a976ceb9-2287-3b31-984e-b21f83c98348?component=4c916a42-02e0-3dba-a78f-82e9ceffa4a0|title=Princess Michael of Kent and Lord Frederick Windsor|publisher=Archives Hub|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Lady Rose Gilman]] (born 1980){{spaced ndash}} daughter of [[Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester|Duke]] and [[Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester|Duchess of Gloucester]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/royal-family-member-harry-potter-6659057|title=The Royal Family member with Harry Potter connections who you've probably never heard of|date=20 February 2022|newspaper=Hull Live|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Zara Tindall]] (born 1981){{spaced ndash}}daughter of the Princess Royal and Mark Phillips<ref>{{cite web|title=Zara Phillips|url=http://www.equestrianlife.com/mw/Zara_Phillips|work=Equestrian Life|access-date=11 August 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016081800/http://www.equestrianlife.com/mw/Zara_Phillips|archive-date=16 October 2013}}</ref>
*[[Lady Gabriella Kingston]] (born 1981){{spaced ndash}} daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a20089441/lady-gabriella-windsor-facts/|title=Who Is Lady Gabriella Windsor?|newspaper=Town and Country|date=27 February 2024|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[William, Prince of Wales]] (born 1982){{spaced ndash}}first son of [[King Charles&nbsp;III]] and [[Diana, Princess of Wales]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dukeandduchessofcambridge.org/the-duke-of-cambridge/biography|title=The Duke of Cambridge – Biography|work=Office of the Prince of Wales|access-date=6 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423064508/http://www.dukeandduchessofcambridge.org/the-duke-of-cambridge/biography|archive-date=23 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (born 1983)|Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark]] (born 1983){{spaced ndash}}daughter of the [[King Constantine II of Greece]] and [[Queen Anne-Marie of Greece]]<ref>{{cite book | title=L'Allemagne Dynastique, Tome IV – Wittelsbach | publisher=Laballery |author1=Huberty, Michel |author2=Giraud, Alain |author3=Magdelaine, F. and B. | year=1994 | location=France | pages=258, 272, 328, 354, 356, 368| isbn=2-901138-07-1}}</ref>
*[[Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex]] (born 1984){{spaced ndash}} second son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales<ref>{{cite news|title=Princess Di gives birth to boy|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V19GAAAAIBAJ&pg=1677,1656508&dq=princess+diana&hl=en|access-date=31 May 2013|newspaper=The Evening News|date=16 September 1984|archive-date=19 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319015343/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V19GAAAAIBAJ&pg=1677,1656508&dq=princess+diana&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark]] (born 1986) {{spaced ndash}} son of [[King Constantine II of Greece]] and [[Queen Anne-Marie of Greece]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tatler.com/article/everything-you-need-to-know-about-prince-philippos-of-greece-and-denmark|title=Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark, Princess Diana's dashing godson, turns 39|date=25 April 2025|newspaper=The Tatler|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick]] (born 1988){{spaced ndash}} son of [[George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews]] and [[Sylvana Windsor, Countess of St Andrews]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/royal-family-duke-of-kent-25225487|title=The Queen's relative who was removed from the line of succession but will inherit another huge title|date=11 October 2022|newspaper=My London|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Prince George of Wales]] (born 2013){{spaced ndash}} first son of William, Prince of Wales, and [[Catherine, Princess of Wales]]<ref>{{cite news |work=The Guardian|last1=Owen|first1=Paul |last2=Walker|first2=Peter |last3=Quinn|first3=Ben |last4=Gabbatt|first4=Adam |title=Royal baby: Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to a boy – as it happened|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/blog/2013/jul/22/royal-baby-kate-admitted-to-hospital-for-birth-live-coverage|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517205844/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/blog/2013/jul/22/royal-baby-kate-admitted-to-hospital-for-birth-live-coverage|date=22 July 2013|access-date=22 July 2013|archive-date=17 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Princess Charlotte of Wales (born 2015)|Princess Charlotte of Wales]] (born 2015){{spaced ndash}} daughter of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales<ref>{{cite news|work=BBC News|title=Royal baby: William and Kate present daughter to the world|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32567875|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505174629/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32567875|date=2 May 2015|access-date=8 May 2015|archive-date=5 May 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Prince Louis of Wales]] (born 2018) – second son of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales<ref>{{cite news|work=BBC News|title=Duchess gives birth to baby boy|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43864933|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620110045/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43864933|date=23 April 2018|access-date=23 April 2018|archive-date=20 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

'''Other notable births'''
*[[Seal (musician)|Seal]] (born 1963) {{spaced ndash}} British musician<ref>{{cite news|url=https://wbssmedia.com/artists/detail/137|title=Seal|newspaper=WBSS Media|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Olivia Robertson]] (1917–2013){{spaced ndash}} author, co-founder and High Priestess of the [[Fellowship of Isis]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/robertson-olivia-melian-a10075|title=Robertson, Olivia Melian|publisher=Dictionary of Irish Biography|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Elvis Costello]] (born 1954){{spaced ndash}} British musician<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Chalmers |first=Robert |title=Men of the year, 2009; Elvis Costello, outstanding achievement |url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/elvis-costello-2007 |magazine=British GQ |date=October 2009 |access-date=28 June 2018}}</ref>
*[[Kiefer Sutherland]] (born 1966){{spaced ndash}} Canadian actor<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jan/13/post-your-questions-for-kiefer-sutherland|title=Post your questions for Kiefer Sutherland|date=13 January 2022|newspaper=The Guardian| access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Lady Charlotte Wellesley]] (born 1990){{spaced ndash}}daughter of the 9th Duke of Wellington<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tatler.com/article/who-is-lady-charlotte-wellesley-rich-list|title=Who is Rich List stalwart Lady Charlotte Wellesley?|first=Annabel|last=Sampson|website=Tatler|date=25 May 2021 }}</ref>
*[[Michael Page]] (born 1987){{spaced ndash}}British professional boxer and mixed martial artist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/ufc/11949653/Bellator-144-Michael-Page-aiming-to-be-the-new-face-of-mixed-martial-arts-in-the-UK.html|title=Bellator 144: Michael Page aiming to be the new face of mixed martial arts in the UK|work=The Telegraph|date=23 October 2015|access-date=4 April 2018|archive-date=20 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520071113/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/ufc/11949653/Bellator-144-Michael-Page-aiming-to-be-the-new-face-of-mixed-martial-arts-in-the-UK.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp]] (born 1994){{spaced ndash}} [[heir apparent]] to the [[Earl Spencer (peerage)|Spencer earldom]], nephew of Diana, Princess of Wales and first cousin of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2015040368369/hot-royal-cousin-alert-meet-louis-spencer-princess-diana-s-nephew/|title=Hot royal cousin alert! Meet Louis Spencer, Princess Diana's nephew|date=3 April 2015|newspaper=Hello| access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Admiral Schofield]] (born 1997){{spaced ndash}} American basketball player, currently with the [[Orlando Magic]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://utsports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/admiral-schofield/6752|title=2018–19 Men's Basketball Roster: Admiral Schofield |publisher=[[Tennessee Volunteers]] |access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>

===Notable staff and alumni===
*[[Arthur Cecil Alport]]{{spaced ndash}} physician who first identified [[Alport syndrome]] in 1927<ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.rcp.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/arthur-cecil-alport|title=Arthur Cecil Alport|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Roger Bannister]]{{spaced ndash}} first man to run a [[four-minute mile]], professor of neurology<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/185134/obituary-sir-roger-bannister-ch-1929-2018/|title=Obituary: Sir Roger Bannister CH; 1929–2018|publisher=Imperial College London|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Dorothy Bannon]] – matron 1922–1928, subsequently first Chief Matron-in-Charge of the [[London County Council]] Hospital and School Nursing Service<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cope |first=Zachariah |title=A Hundred Years of Nursing at St. Mary's Hospital , Paddington |publisher=William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd. |year=1955 |location=London |pages=118–120}}</ref>
*[[Aleck Bourne]]{{spaced ndash}}gynaecologist best known for his 1938 trial, a landmark case in abortion law<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-55192|title=Bourne, Aleck William (1886–1974), obstetrician and gynaecologist {{!}} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/55192|access-date=2019-08-05|year=2004}}</ref>
*[[William Broadbent]]{{spaced ndash}} 19th-century neurologist and cardiologist<ref>{{cite web|title=Munks Roll Details for William Henry (Sir) Broadbent|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/561 |publisher=Royal College of Physicians|accessdate=28 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510082710/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/561|archive-date=10 May 2017}}</ref>
*[[John Scott Burdon-Sanderson]]{{spaced ndash}} [[Regius Professor]] of [[Medicine]] at the [[University of Oxford]] and [[Royal Medal]] winner<ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.rcp.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/sir-john-scott-burdon-sanderson|title=Sir John Scott Burdon Sanderson|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[J. Jackson Clarke]] {{spaced ndash}} pathologist, surgeon, and cancer researcher<ref>{{cite web|url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:376156/one|title=James Jackson Clarke|publisher=Royal College of Surgeons of England|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Leonard Colebrook]]{{spaced ndash}} physician and bacteriologist, [[Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery|MBBS]] in 1906, who, in 1935, showed [[Prontosil]] was effective against [[Haemolysis|haemolytic]] [[streptococcus]] of [[puerperal fever]]<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Oakley | first1 = C. L. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1971.0004 | title = Leonard Colebrook 1883-1967 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 17 | pages = 90–138 | year = 1971 | pmid =  11615432| doi-access =  }}</ref>
*[[Zachary Cope]] – surgeon and medical historian<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1975 |title=Vincent Zachary cope 1881–1974, Obituary |journal=British Journal of Surgery |volume=62 |issue=8 |pages=668–669 |doi=10.1002/bjs.1800620820|pmid=1100161 }}</ref>
*[[Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham]]{{spaced ndash}} Health Minister<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/42d3c3a3 |title=Ara Darzi: Desert Island Discs Castaway|newspaper=[[BBC Radio 4]] |date=22 June 2008|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Alexander Fleming]]{{spaced ndash}} awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] for discovery of [[penicillin]]<ref>{{cite journal | last= Mazumdar |first=P. M. | title = Fleming as Bacteriologist: Alexander Fleming | journal = Science | volume = 225 | issue = 4667 | pages = 1140–1141 | year = 1984 | pmid = 17782415 | doi = 10.1126/science.225.4667.1140 | bibcode = 1984Sci...225.1140C }}</ref>
*[[Nim Hall]]{{spaced ndash}} England rugby captain<ref>{{cite news|title=St Mary's Paddington a rugby powerhouse|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/brendangallagher/2294982/St-Marys-Paddington-a-rugby-powerhouse.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=20 March 2008|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[John Henry (toxicologist)|John Henry]]{{spaced ndash}} clinical [[toxicologist]] who did crucial work on [[poison]]ing and [[drug overdose]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Platt|first1=Michael|title=Obituary: John Henry|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jun/20/guardianobituaries.obituaries|work=The Guardian|date=20 June 2007|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
*[[Amanda Herbert]]{{spaced ndash}} [[cytopathologist]] and [[histopathologist]], editor of ''Cytopathology'' from 2008 to 2014 and co-editor of ''Eurocytology.eu''<ref>{{cite book|url=http://histmodbiomed.org/sites/default/files/44868.pdf|first1=Lois|last1= Reynolds|first2= Tilli|last2= Tansey|year=2009|title= History of Cervical Cancer and the Role of the Human Papillomavirus, 1960-2000|publisher=Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group|isbn=978-0-85484-123-3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501025430/http://histmodbiomed.org/sites/default/files/44868.pdf|archive-date=1 May 2016}}</ref>
*[[Albert Neuberger]]{{spaced ndash}} professor of chemical [[pathology]]<ref>{{Cite ODNB | author = Sharon, Nathan| title = Neuberger, Albert (1908–1996), biochemist| doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/61494 | year = 2004 }}</ref><ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | last1 = Allen | first1 = A. K. | last2 = Muir | first2 = H. M. | authorlink2 = Helen Muir| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2001.0021 | title = Albert Neuberger. 15 April 1908 -- 14 August 1996: Elected F.R.S. 1951 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 47 | pages = 369–382 | year = 2001 | pmid =  15124648| s2cid = 72943723 }}</ref>
*[[Tom Oppé]]{{spaced ndash}} professor of paediatrics<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-thomas-oppe-403327.html|title=Professor Thomas Oppe|date=24 September 2007|work=[[The Independent]]|first=Caroline|last=Richmond|accessdate=11 March 2019}}</ref> 
*[[Tuppy Owen-Smith]]{{spaced ndash}} international rugby player and cricketer<ref>{{cite book|last=Early|first=Robert E|title=Weavers and War: A True Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hr49AAAAIAAJ|pages=19|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=9780710201867|year=1984}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Gallagher |first=Brendan |date=20 March 2008 |title=St Mary's Paddington a rugby powerhouse |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/brendangallagher/2294982/St-Marys-Paddington-a-rugby-powerhouse.html}}</ref>
*[[William Stanley Peart]]{{spaced ndash}} professor of medicine, isolated and determined the structure of [[angiotensin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/lifesci/medical/synopses/peart.html|title=Oxford Brookes University: Medical Video Archive: Sir Stanley Peart FRS|accessdate=28 January 2009}}</ref>
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*[[Bernard Spilsbury]]{{spaced ndash}} pathologist and one of the pioneers of modern [[forensic medicine]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.rcp.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/sir-bernard-henry-spilsbury|title=Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|access-date=19 September 2025}}</ref>
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*[[Augustus Desiré Waller|Augustus Waller]]{{spaced ndash}} whose research led to the invention of the [[electrocardiogram]] (ECG)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/people/augutuswaller|title=Augustus Désiré Waller (1856–1922)|website=www.sciencemuseum.org.uk|access-date=18 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809172231/http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/people/augutuswaller|archive-date=9 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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*[[Almroth Wright]]{{spaced ndash}} advanced [[vaccination]] through the use of [[autogenous vaccines]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wright|first=A.E.|author2=Stewart, R.D. |title=An experimental investigation on the role of the blood fluids in connection with phagocytosis|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London|date=1 September 1903|volume=72|issue=477–486|pages=357–370|doi=10.1098/rspl.1903.0062|bibcode=1903RSPS...72..357W|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[Charles Romley Alder Wright]]{{spaced ndash}} first person to synthesize heroin in 1874<ref>{{cite book |last1=Plarr |first1=Victor G. |title=Men and women of the time: a dictionary of contemporaries |publisher=G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd. |year=1899 |edition=15th |location=London |page=1196 |chapter=Wright, Charles Romley Alder |access-date=2022-11-21 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029787136/page/1196}}</ref>
*[[Wu Lien-teh]]{{spaced ndash}}later to be the Plague fighter of China<ref>{{Cite journal|date=6 February 1960|title=Obituary: Wu Lien-Teh|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673660902774|journal=The Lancet|series=Originally published as Volume 1, Issue 7119|language=en|volume=275|issue=7119|pages=341|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(60)90277-4|issn=0140-6736|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==Associations==
[[File:St Mary Paddington Nameplate.JPG|thumb|The nameplate of British Rail class 43 locomotive 43142, St Mary's Hospital Paddington, now on display in the Cambridge Wing of the hospital in London]]
St Mary's Hospital is located beside [[London Paddington railway station]], the principal station of the [[Great Western Railway]] and its successors. In celebration of the association, a [[British Rail Class 43 (HST)|British Rail Class 43]] (InterCity 125) locomotive, 43142, was named ''St Mary's Hospital, Paddington'' on 4 November 1986. The locomotive is still in service but, following changes of ownership, the name has now been removed. One of the large metal nameplates was acquired by the hospital, and is now displayed in the foyer of the Cambridge Wing.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_i5mBAAAQBAJ&q=St+Mary%27s+Hospital%2C+Paddington+locomotive+43+142&pg=PT154|title=Intercity HST 125: The Amberley Railway Archive|first=Hugh|last=Llewelyn|publisher=Amberley Publishing|year=2014|isbn=978-1445634180|access-date=21 November 2020|archive-date=23 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123040748/https://books.google.com/books?id=_i5mBAAAQBAJ&q=St+Mary%27s+Hospital%2C+Paddington+locomotive+43+142&pg=PT154|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Major trauma centre==
St Mary's Hospital is one of four [[Major Trauma Centre|major trauma centres]] in [[London]]. The other three are [[King's College Hospital]] in [[Denmark Hill]], [[Royal London Hospital|The Royal London Hospital]] in [[Whitechapel]], and [[St George's Hospital]] in [[Tooting]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/calling_999/emergency_trauma_care.aspx|title=London's four major trauma centres|access-date=27 June 2017|archive-date=6 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906040015/http://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/calling_999/emergency_trauma_care.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Cosmic charity==
The charity Cosmic is an independent charity, supporting the work of the neonatal and paediatric intensive care services at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington and Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Hammersmith, both part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. The charity funds a range of specialist equipment for the units, including ventilators and patient monitoring systems for those being treated on the wards,<ref>{{Cite web|last=cosmic|title=Equipment|url=https://cosmiccharity.org.uk/equipment/|access-date=2022-01-28|website=COSMIC|language=en-GB|archive-date=28 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128095958/https://cosmiccharity.org.uk/equipment/|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as providing practical and emotional support to families.<ref>{{Cite web|last=cosmic|title=Family Support|url=https://cosmiccharity.org.uk/family-support/|access-date=2022-01-28|website=COSMIC|language=en-GB|archive-date=28 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128100559/https://cosmiccharity.org.uk/family-support/|url-status=live}}</ref>

== In popular culture ==
In the British [[preschool]] [[animated]] television series ''[[Peppa Pig]]'', Peppa's little sister [[List_of_Peppa_Pig_characters#The_Pigs|Evie]] was born  at the Lindo Wing on 20 May 2025.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/peppa-pig-mummy-pig-gives-birth-baby-girl-evie/|title=Peppa Pig's Mummy Pig gives birth to baby girl and reveals special name|last=Dear|first=Alice|date=20 May 2025|work=[[Heart (radio network)|Heart]]|accessdate=21 May 2025}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of hospitals in England]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110929072126/http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/news/p72509/ Special events commemorate ten years of the Faculty of Medicine]
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== External links ==
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* [https://www.nhs.uk/Services/hospitals/Overview/DefaultView.aspx?id=1672 St Mary's Hospital on the NHS website]
* [https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/RYJ01 Care Quality Commission inspection reports]

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