Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro

Bernard Francisco Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro, born on 20 January 1944, is a British surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2005 to 2008, the head of that professional body for three years. In 2010 he was created a life peer, taking the title Baron Ribeiro, and he sat in the House of Lords on the Conservative benches until his retirement in 2023. His career therefore joins clinical surgery, leadership of a major surgical college and, later, membership of the legislature, which makes him an example of a surgeon who carried professional standing into public life. This entry is written from the lead section of his English Wikipedia article and records only what that lead states about his birth, his presidency and his peerage.