Whitfield Winsey
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Whitfield Winsey (September 1847 – July 6, 1919), was the first African American doctor admitted to the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland.
Winsey was born to William H. and Malvina Gibbs Winsey of Baltimore. The Winseys were a free African American family and William Winsey earned enough money as a brickmaker to provide a private education for his son, Whitfield.
Beginning in 1867, Winsey was mentored by Dr. John Richard Woodcock Dunbar, who was vice-president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland and was influential in the medical community. In 1871, Winsey graduated from Harvard Medical School, where he was taught by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.