Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Macleod. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923, announced October 25, 1923. Frederick G. Banting and John Macleod, “for the discovery of insulin”. Frederick G. Banting: born 1891, Alliston, Canada. John Macleod: born 1876, Cluny, Scotland. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).