The following individuals were pioneers in the field of pediatric surgery, sharing their knowledge and skills as active PAPS members at our meetings. They will be missed by the pediatric surgery world at large.
| H. | Andrews | |
| Harry | Applebaum | 1946-2019 |
| Phillip | Ashmore | 1926-2011 |
| William | Bailey | 1927-2012 |
| Gordon | Baron-Hay | 1935-2011 |
| Aubrey | Bowring | 1924-2011 |
| John | Cahill | 1925-2020 |
| John | Campbell | 1932-2022 |
| Soul-Chin | Chen | 1941-2023 |
| C. | Crowe, Jr | 1929-2019 |
| Genevieve | Cummins | |
| Joseph | David | 1929-2017 |
| Alfred | De Lorimier | 1931-2009 |
| Pieter | De Vries | 1921-2016 |
| Hugh | Firor | 1929-2012 |
| Eric | Fonkalsrud | 1932-2017 |
| Yasuhiko | Furuta | |
| Martin | Glasson | |
| Jay | Grosfeld | 1935-2016 |
| Brian | Hardy | 1942-2013 |
| Daniel | Hays | 1919-2016 |
| Yoshinori | Hirai | |
| Wen-Tsung | Hung | |
| Morio | Kasai | 1922-2008 |
| Justin | Kelly | 1936-2022 |
| Ian | Kern | |
| Philip | King | 1942-2004 |
| Murray | Kliman | 1924-2011 |
| Ann | Kosloske | 1937-2014 |
| Takeshi | Kusafuka | |
| Daniel | Ledbetter | 1956-2019 |
| Kam | Liu | |
| Alasdair | Mackellar | |
| Desmond | McGuckin | 1928-2014 |
| Nathaniel | Myers | 1923-2004 |
| Kounosuke | Nakada | |
| Morihiro | Saeki | |
| Htut | Saing | 1935-2010 |
| Lester | Sauvage | 1926-2015 |
| Robert | Schaller, Jr | 1934-2014 |
| Anthony | Shaw | 1929-2023 |
| Keijiro | Suruga | 1920-2023 |
| Hock | Tan | 1949-2022 |
| Junichi | Uchino | |
| Morton | Woolley | 1924-2019 |
| Hiromichi | Yano | |
| Takashi | Yokoyama | |
| Jinzhe | Zhang | 1920-2022 |