 Louis Barnett

Sir Louis Edward Barnett (1865–1946) was a New Zealand professor of surgery and founder of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.His work at the Otago Medical School, where he was one of the school's earliest students, and with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons led to the recognition of hydatid disease (see echinococcus), a potentially fatal parasitic disease.