Sir Brian Wellingham Windeyer KBE, FRCS (7 February 1904 – 26 October 1994) was Professor of Therapeutic Radiology at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London, from 1942 to 1969, Dean of school from 1954 to 1967 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1969 to 1972.
[1][2] Windeyer was born in Turramurra[3] near Sydney, Australia, to parents of British, and earlier Swiss origin.
He was the youngest of seven children of Mabel Fuller Robinson (1864–1956), an orphan emigrant from London to Australia at the age of 18.
[4][2] After time at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, he worked at the Fondation Curie in Paris from 1929 to 1930.
[6] In World War II he was director in the emergency medical service of Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood, Middlesex.