Sir Michael George Parke Stoker (4 July 1918 – 13 August 2013)[1] was a British physician and medical researcher in virology.

Stoker studied medicine at Clare College, Cambridge and St Thomas' Hospital in London, gaining his MD in 1947, after serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II.

On return to civilian life he became a Fellow of Clare College from 1948 and an assistant tutor and director of medical studies from 1949 to 1958.

He was the director of Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories from 1968 to 1979 and president of Clare Hall, Cambridge University 1980–87.

[5] He married Veronica English (died 2004) in 1942, whom he met as a fellow student at University of Cambridge; the couple had 5 children.