Tsewang Yishey Pemba

Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba (5 June 1932 – 26 November 2011) MBBS (London) FRCS was the first Tibetan to become a doctor in western medicine, and to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He founded the first hospital in Bhutan. He is also credited for writing the first work of fiction by a Tibetan in English, "Idols on the Path", published in 1966, and is also regarded as the first Tibetan to publish a book in English, "Young Days in Tibet", published by Jonathan Cape in 1957. Provided by Wikipedia