Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet was a Scottish physician known in Russia as Яков Васильевич Виллие. From 1790 to 1829, he served in the Imperial Russian army as a battlefield surgeon in more than 50 battles; in the final 40 of those concurrently directing all battlefield medicine. He held that role from 1806 until 1854; also from 1798 until 1854 physician to three tsars; and from 1808 to 1838 the president of Saint Petersburg's Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy. His name is inseparably connected with the creation of both battlefield medicine and a national corps of Russian-born military doctors within the Imperial Russia during the first half of the 19th century, plus transformation of its military medical training. He is well known within Russia.
- Occupation
- physician, surgeon
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
