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This is a list of famous
physicians in history.
Chronological lists
Ancient physicians
30th century BCE to 4th century CE
Post-classical physicians
5th century CE to 15th century CE
Early modern physicians
16th century CE to the mid-18th century CE
Late modern physicians
mid-18th century CE to the mid-20th century CE
Physicians famous for their role in advancement of medicine
William Osler Abbott (1902–1943) — co-developed the Miller-Abbott tube
William Stewart Agras (born 1929) — feeding behavior
Virginia Apgar (1909–1974) —
anesthesiologist who devised the
Apgar score used after
childbirth
Jean Astruc (1684–1766) — wrote one of the first treatises on
syphilis
Averroes (1126–1198) —
Andalusian polymath
Avicenna (980–1037) —
Persian physician
Gerbrand Bakker (1771–1828) — Dutch physician, with works in Dutch and Latin on midwifery, practical surgery, animal magnetism, worms, the human eye, comparative anatomy, and the anatomy of the brain
Frederick Banting (1891–1941) — isolated
insulin
Christiaan Barnard (1922–2001) — performed first
heart transplant
Charles Best (1899–1978) — assisted in the discovery of
insulin
Norman Bethune (1890–1939) — developer of battlefield surgical techniques
Theodor Billroth (1829–1894) — father of modern abdominal surgery
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) — first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States; first openly identified woman to receive a medical degree; pioneered the advancement of women in medicine
Alfred Blalock (1899–1964) — noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and the development of the
Blalock-Taussig Shunt , surgical relief of the cyanosis from
Tetralogy of Fallot , known commonly as the
blue baby syndrome , with his assistant
Vivien Thomas and
pediatric
cardiologist
Helen Taussig
James Carson (1772–1843)
Charaka (
c. 100 BCE – 200 CE) —
Indian physician
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893) — pioneering
neurologist
Guy de Chauliac (1290–1368) — one of the first physicians to have an
experimental approach towards medicine; also recorded the
Black Death
Anna Manning Comfort (1845-1931) — first woman medical graduate to practice in the state of Connecticut
Loren Cordain (born 1950) —
American nutritionist and exercise physiologist,
Paleolithic diet
Harvey Cushing (1869–1939) —
American
neurosurgeon ; father of modern-day brain surgery
Garcia de Orta (1501–1568) — revealed herbal medicines of
India , described
cholera
Gerhard Domagk (1895–1964) — pathologist and bacteriologist; credited with the discovery of
sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730), the first commercially available antibiotic; won 1939 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Charles R. Drew (1904–1950) —
blood transfusion pioneer
Helen Flanders Dunbar (1902–1959) — important early figure in U.S.
psychosomatic medicine
Galen (129–
c. 210 ) —
Roman physician and anatomist
Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) — German scientist; won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; developed
Ehrlich's reagent
Christiaan Eijkman (1858–1930) —
pathologist , studied
beriberi
Pierre Fauchard — father of
dentistry
René Gerónimo Favaloro (1923–2000) —
Argentine cardiac surgeon who created the
coronary bypass grafting procedure
Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) — Scottish scientist, inventor of penicillin
Girolamo Fracastoro (1478–1553) — wrote on
syphilis , forerunner of germ theory
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — founder of
psychoanalysis
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008) — studied
Kuru ,
Nobel prize winner
George E. Goodfellow (1855–1910) — recognized as first U.S. civilian trauma surgeon, expert in gunshot wound treatment
Henry Gray (1827–1861) —
English anatomist and surgeon, creator of
Gray's Anatomy
Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) — physician and anatomist
William Harvey (1578–1657) —
English physician, described the
circulatory system
Henry Heimlich (1920–2016) — inventor of the
Heimlich maneuver and the Vietnam War-era chest drain valve
Orvan Hess (1906–2002) —
fetal heart monitor and first successful use of
penicillin
Hippocrates (
c. 460 –370 BCE) —
Greek father of
medicine
John Hunter (1728–1793) — father of modern surgery, famous for his study of anatomy
Kurt Julius Isselbacher (1928–2019) — Former editor of
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine , prominent Gastroenterologist, founder of the
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Association of American Physicians Kober Medal winner
Edward Jenner (1749–1823) —
English physician popularized
vaccination
Elliott P. Joslin (1869–1962) — pioneer in the treatment of
diabetes
Carl Jung (1875–1961) —
Swiss
psychiatrist
Leo Kanner (1894–1981) —
Austrian -
American
psychiatrist known for work on
autism
Seymour Kety (1915–2000) — American neuroscientist
Robert Koch (1843–1910) — formulated Koch's postulates
Theodor Kocher (1841–1917) — thyroid surgery; first surgeon to win the
Nobel Prize
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781–1826) — inventor of the
stethoscope
Janet Lane-Claypon (1877–1967) — pioneer of
epidemiology
Thomas Linacre (1460–1524) — founder of
Royal College of Physicians
Joseph Lister (1827–1912) — pioneer of
antiseptic
surgery
Richard Lower (1631–1691) — studied the lungs and heart, and performed the first blood transfusion
Paul Loye (1861–1890) — studied the nervous system and decapitation
Wilhelm Frederick von Ludwig (1790–1865) — German physician known for his 1836 publication on the condition now known as
Ludwig's angina
Amato Lusitano (1511–1568) — discovered venous valves, studied blood circulation
Madhav (8th century A.D.) — medical text author and systematizer
Maimonides (1135–1204)
Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694) —
Italian anatomist, pioneer in
histology
Barry Marshall (born 1951)
Charles Horace Mayo (1865–1939) — co-founder,
Mayo Clinic
William James Mayo (1861–1939) — co-founder, Mayo Clinic
William Worrall Mayo (1819–1911) — co-founder, Mayo Clinic
Salvador Mazza (1886–1946) —
Argentine epidemiologist who helped in controlling
American trypanosomiasis
William McBride (1927-2018) — discovered teratogenicity of thalidomide
Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884–1951) — studied muscle metabolism;
Nobel prize
George Richards Minot (1885–1950) — Nobel prize for his study of
anemia
B. K. Misra — first neurosurgeon in the world to perform
image-guided surgery for
aneurysms , first in South Asia to perform
stereotactic radiosurgery , first in India to perform
awake craniotomy and
laparoscopic spine surgery.
[1]
Frederic E. Mohs (1910–2002) — responsible for the method of surgery now called
Mohs surgery
Egas Moniz (1874–1955) — developed lobotomy and brain artery angiography
Richard Morton (1637–1698) — identified
tubercles in consumption (phthisis) of lungs; basis for modern name
tuberculosis
Herbert Needleman (1927–2017) — scientifically established link between
lead poisoning and neurological damage; key figure in successful efforts to limit lead exposure
Charles Jean Henri Nicolle (1866–1936) —
microbiologist who won Nobel prize for work on
typhus
Ian Olver (born 1953)
Gary Onik (born 1952) — inventor and pioneer of ultrasound guided cryosurgery for both the prostate and the liver
William Osler (1849–1919) — "father of modern medicine"
Ralph Paffenbarger (1922–2007) — conducted classic studies demonstrating conclusively that active people reduce their risk of
heart disease and live longer
George Papanicolaou (1883–1962) — Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection; inventor of the Pap smear
Paracelsus (1493–1541) — founder of
toxicology
Ambroise Paré (1510–1590) — advanced surgical wound treatment
Wilder Penfield (1891–1976) — pioneer in
neurology
Marcus Raichle (born 1937) — father of
functional neuroimaging
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) — father of modern neuroscience for his development of the
neuron theory
Joseph Ransohoff (1915–2001) —
neurosurgeon who invented the modern technique for removing brain tumors
Sir
William Refshauge (1913–2009) —
Australian public health administrator
Rhazes (
c. 865 –925) (
Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi )
Juan Rosai (1940–2020) — advanced
surgical pathology ; discovered the
desmoplastic small round cell tumor and
Rosai–Dorfman disease
Jonas Salk (1914–1995) — developed a vaccine for
polio
Lall Sawh (born 1951) —
Trinidadian surgeon/urologist and pioneer of kidney transplantation in the Caribbean
Martin Schurig (1656–1733) — first physician to occupy himself with the anatomy of the
sexual organs .
[2]
Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865) — a pioneer of avoiding cross-infection — introduced hand washing and instrument cleaning
Victor Skumin (born 1948) — first to describe a previously unknown disease, now called
Skumin syndrome
[3] (a disorder of the
central nervous system of some
patients after receiving a
prosthetic heart valve )
[4]
John Snow (1813–1858) — anaesthetist and pioneer epidemiologist who studied
cholera
Thomas Starzl (1926–2017) — performed the first liver transplant
Andrew Taylor Still (1828–1917) — father of
osteopathic medicine
Susruta (
c. 500 BCE ) —
Indian physician and pioneering
surgeon
Thomas Sydenham (1642–1689) — clinician
James Mourilyan Tanner (1920–2010) — developed
Tanner stages and advanced auxology
Helen B. Taussig (1898–1986) — founded field of pediatric cardiology, worked to prevent thalidomide marketing in the US
Carlo Urbani (1956–2003) — discovered and died from
SARS
Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) —
Belgian anatomist, often referred to as the founder of modern
human anatomy
Vidus Vidius (1508–1569) — first professor of medicine at the College Royal and author of medical texts
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) —
German pathologist, founder of fields of comparative pathology and cellular pathology
Carl Warburg (1805–1892) — German/
British physician and clinical pharmacologist, inventor of
Warburg's Tincture , a famed antipyretic and antimalarial medicine of the Victorian era
Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883–1970) — German physiologist, medical doctor; Nobel prize 1931
Allen Oldfather Whipple (1881–1963) — devised the
Whipple procedure in 1935 for treatment of
pancreatic cancer
Priscilla White (1900–1989) — developed classification of
diabetes mellitus and pregnancy to assess and reduce the risk of
miscarriage ,
birth defect ,
stillbirth , and
maternal death
Carl Wood (1929–2011) — developed and commercialized in-vitro fertilization
Alfred Worcester (1855–1951) — pioneer in geriatrics, palliative care, appendectomy, cesarean section, student health, nursing education
Ole Wormius (1588–1654) — pioneer in
embryology
Sir Magdi Yacoub (born 1935) — one of the leading developers of the techniques of
heart and
heart-lung transplantation
Boris Yegorov (1937–1994) — first physician in space (1964)
Zhang Xichun (1860–1933) — first physician to integrate Chinese and Western medicine
Richard White (physician) - physician known for his development of the zebrafish as a model for cancer.
Physicians famous chiefly as eponyms
Among the better known
eponyms :
Physicians famous as criminals
Physicians famous as writers
Among the better known writers:
Mary A. Brinkman (1846-1932) - American homeopathic physician and medical writer
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) - Russian novelist and playwright
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894–1961) - French novelist, author of
Journey to the End of the Night
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) - writer and actor, founding member of
Monty Python
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) - Russian playwright
Robin Cook - American author of bestselling novels, wrote
Coma
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) - American author of
Jurassic Park
A. J. Cronin (1896–1981) - Scottish novelist and essayist, author of
The Citadel
Anthony Daniels (born 1949) - as 'Theodore Dalrymple' and under his own name, a British author, critic and social and cultural commentator
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) - British author of
Sherlock Holmes fame
Khaled Hosseini (born 1965) - American author, originally from Afghanistan, of bestselling novels
The Kite Runner and
A Thousand Splendid Suns
John Keats (1795–1821) - English poet
Morio Kita - Japanese novelist and essayist; son of
Mokichi Saitō
Jean Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune (1732–1809) - French physician who translated several works from Latin, English, Spanish, Italian, and German into French
Luke the Evangelist - one of the four Gospel writers of the
Bible
John S. Marr - proposed natural explanations for the ten
plagues of Egypt
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) - British novelist and short story writer, wrote
Of Human Bondage
Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) - French playwright, discovered sign of
syphilitic
aortitis
Taslima Nasrin
Mori Ōgai - Japanese novelist, poet, and literary critic
Walker Percy (1916–1990) - American philosopher and writer
François Rabelais (1483–1553) - French author of
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Mokichi Saitō - Japanese poet
Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805), German writer, poet, essayist and dramatist
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) - American poet and essayist
And others:
Patrick Abercromby (1656–
c. 1716 ) - historian
Chris Adrian
Giorgio Antonucci (1933-2017) - Italian physician and poet, known for his questioning of the bases of psychiatry
Jacob Appel - short story writer
John Arbuthnot
Janet Asimov (1926–2019) (née Janet O. Jeppson) - American psychiatrist, wife of
Isaac Asimov
Arnie Baker - cycling coach
Cora Belle Brewster (1859–?), writer, editor
Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) - British writer
Georg Büchner - German dramatist
Ludwig Büchner - German philosopher
Thomas Campion - poet, composer
Ethan Canin - novelist, short story writer
Deepak Chopra - Indian/American writer of
self-help and health books
Alex Comfort (1920–2000) - British writer and poet, author of
The Joy of Sex
Ctesias (5th century B.C.) - Greek historian
Steven Clark Cunningham (born 1972) - children's poem writer
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) - British poet, grandfather of
Charles Darwin
Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) - French writer, dramatist, poet and humanist
Havelock Ellis (1859–1940) - British writer and poet, author of
The Psychology of Sex
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) - Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, author of
Man's Search for Meaning
Samuel Garth (1661–1719) - British author and translator of classics
Elmina M. Roys Gavitt (1828–1898) - American physician; medical journal founder, editor-in-chief
Atul Gawande - surgeon and
New Yorker medical writer
William Gilbert - British author; father of
W. S. Gilbert
Oliver Goldsmith - British author
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) - American essayist
Richard Hooker - author of
M*A*S*H
Arthur Johnston (1587–1641) - poet
Eunice D. Kinney (1851-1942) - Canadian-born American physician, journal editor
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) - American psychiatrist, syndicated political columnist
R. D. Laing - Scottish writer and poet, leader of the
anti-psychiatry movement
Stanisław Lem (1929–2006) - Polish author of science-fiction (
Solaris )
Carlo Levi (1902–1975) - Italian novelist and writer
David Livingstone (1813–1873) - Scottish medical missionary, explorer of Africa, travel writer
Adeline Yen Mah - Chinese-American author
Paolo Mantegazza (1831–1910) - Italian writer, author of science fiction book
L'Anno 3000
Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793) - French writer, a leader of
French Revolution ; assassinated in bathtub
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) - American writer
Mungo Park - Scottish physician and explorer
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman - Indian author and translator of classical manuscripts
José Rizal (1861–1896) - Filipino novelist, scientist, linguist, and national hero
João Guimarães Rosa - Brazilian writer
Sir
Ronald Ross (1857–1932) - British writer and poet, discovered the
malarial parasite
Theodore Isaac Rubin (1923–2019) - American author of
David and Lisa
Oliver Sacks (1933–2015) - British essayist (The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat )
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) - German charitative worker, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1952), theologian, philosopher, organist, musicologist
Julia Seton (1862-1950) - American physician, lecturer, New Thought writer
Frank Slaughter (1908–2001) - American bestseller author, wrote (Doctor's Wives )
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) - author
Benjamin Spock (1903–1988) - American pediatrician, wrote
Baby and Child Care
Patrick Taylor - Canadian best-selling novelist
Osamu Tezuka - Japanese cartoonist and animator; the "father of
anime "
Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) - American essayist and poet
Sir
Henry Thompson - British surgeon and
polymath
Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942) - Czech writer,
screenwriter and
film director
Drauzio Varella - Brazilian educator, scientist and medical science popularizer
Francis Brett Young (1884–1954) - English novelist and poet
Physicians famous as politicians
Sali Berisha - President (1992–1997) and Prime Minister(2005-2013) of Albania
Dipu Moni - Bangladeshi Minister of Education
Nazira Abdula - Mozambican Minister of Health
Ayad Allawi - interim Prime Minister of Iraq
Salvador Allende (1908–1973) - Chilean president
Emilio Álvarez Montalván - Foreign Minister of
Nicaragua
Arnulfo Arias - Panamanian President
Firdous Ashiq Awan - Pakistani politician
Bashar Al-Assad - Syrian national leader
Michelle Bachelet (born 1951) - Chilean president
Hastings Kamuzu Banda (1898–1997) - Prime Minister, President and later dictator of
Malawi
Gro Harlem Brundtland (born 1939) - first
Norwegian female prime minister; Director-General of the
World Health Organization
Margaret Chan - Director General of the
WHO ; former Director of Health of Hong Kong
Chen Chi-mai - former mayor of
Kaohsiung ,
Taiwan
York Chow -
Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food of
Hong Kong
Denzil Douglas -
Prime Ministers of Saint Kitts and Nevis , 1995–2015
François Duvalier (1907–1971) - also known as Papa Doc; President and later dictator of
Haiti
Antônio Palocci Filho - Brazilian politician, Finance Minister
Christian Friedrich, Baron von Stockmar - Anglo-Belgian statesman
Che Guevara - Latin American revolutionary leader
George Habash - founder of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Ibrahim al-Jaafari - Prime minister of
Iraq
Radovan Karadžić (born 1945) - first President of Republika Srpska, now
facing charges for genocide and crimes against humanity
Mohammad-Reza Khatami - Iranian politician
Ewa Kopacz - Polish Prime Minister who succeeded
Donald Tusk , 2014–2015
Juscelino Kubitscheck -
Brazilian president
Mahathir Mohamad -
Malaysian prime minister
Agostinho Neto (1922–1979) -
MPLA leader and president of
Angola
Navin Ramgoolam - Prime minister of
Mauritius
Lloyd Richardson -
President of the Parliament of Sint Maarten , 2014–2015
José Rizal (1861–1896) - Filipino revolutionary and national hero
Bidhan Chandra Roy - Indian politician
Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) - founder of the
Republic of China
Tabaré Vázquez - former Uruguayan President
Ali Akbar Velayati (born 1945) -
Iranian
Foreign Minister , 1981–1997
Ursula von der Leyen (born 1958) -
German Federal Minister of Defence
William Walker (1824–1860) - ruler of
Nicaragua
Ram Baran Yadav (born 1948) - first elected president of the republic of Nepal
Yeoh Eng-kiong - former Secretary for Health and Welfare of Hong Kong
Argentina
Azerbaijan
Australia
Brazil
Geraldo Alckmin -
Vice President of Brazil ,
Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services , former
Governor of São Paulo , former
Vice Governor of São Paulo , former Mayor of
Pindamonhangaba and former
federal deputy for
São Paulo
Antônio Austregésilo - former
federal deputy for
Pernambuco
Enéas Carneiro - former
federal deputy for
São Paulo and former presidential candidate
Marcelo Castro -
senator for
Piauí and former
Minister of Health
Arthur Chioro - former
Minister of Health
Humberto Costa -
senator for
Pernambuco
Antônio Salim Curiati - former
Mayor of São Paulo
Pedro Ernesto - former
Mayor of Rio de Janeiro
Jandira Feghali -
federal deputy for
Rio de Janeiro
André Fufuca -
Minister of Sports and former
federal deputy for
Maranhão
Paulo Garcia - former Mayor of
Goiânia
Hiran Gonçalves -
senator for
Roraima and former
federal deputy for
Roraima
Ângela Guadagnin - former Mayor of
São José dos Campos and former
federal deputy for
São Paulo
Eduardo Jorge - former
federal deputy for
São Paulo and former presidential candidate
Juscelino Kubitschek - former
President of Brazil , former
Governor of Minas Gerais , former
senator for
Goiás , former
Mayor of Belo Horizonte and former
federal deputy for
Minas Gerais
Lavoisier Maia - former
Governor of Rio Grande do Norte , former
senator for
Rio Grande do Norte and former
federal deputy for
Rio Grande do Norte
Zenaide Maia -
senator for
Rio Grande do Norte and former
federal deputy for
Rio Grande do Norte
Luiz Henrique Mandetta - former
Minister of Health and former
federal deputy for
Mato Grosso do Sul
Raquel Muniz - former
federal deputy for
Minas Gerais
Carlos Neder - former
state deputy of São Paulo
Alexandre Padilha -
federal deputy for
São Paulo and former
Minister of Health
Darcísio Perondi -
federal deputy for
Rio Grande do Sul
Mario Pinotti - former
Minister of Health and former Mayor of
Nova Iguaçu
Marcelo Queiroga - former
Minister of Health
Hélio de Oliveira Santos - former Mayor of
Campinas and former
federal deputy for
São Paulo
Alexandre Serfiotis -
federal deputy for
Rio de Janeiro
Nelson Teich - former
Minister of Health
José Gomes Temporão - former
Minister of Health
Canada
France
Italy
Japan
Pakistan
The Netherlands
United Kingdom
United States
Physicians famous as sportspeople
Physicians famous for their role in television and the media
Australia
Brazil
Finland
Germany
Ireland
Malta
Norway
Pakistan
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
Physicians famous as beauty queens
Physicians famous as first ladies
Physicians famous for other activities
Anderson Ruffin Abbott
Jane Addams — social activist
Dav and
ultrasound technologies to
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines [
clarification needed ]
Oswald Avery (1877–1955) — molecular biologist who discovered
DNA carried genetic information
Ali Bacher — cricketer
Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi — traveller
Roger Bannister — runner, first sub-four-minute miler
Josiah Bartlett — American statesman and chief justice of New Hampshire
T. Romeyn Beck (1791–1855) — American
forensic medicine pioneer
Ramon Betances — surgeon, PR nationalist
Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867–1939) — nutritionist
Oscar Biscet — human rights advocate
Herman Boerhaave — humanist
Alexander Borodin — composer, chemist
Thomas Bowdler — censor
Maria Pilar Bruguera Sábat — nun
Lafayette Bunnell — explorer of
Yosemite Valley
John Caius (1510–1573) — physician and educator
Roberto Canessa — survivor of
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 , which crashed in the Andes Mountains in 1972
Gerolamo Cardano — mathematician
Alexis Carrell — transplant surgeon, eugenicist, Vichy sympathizer
Ben Carson — African-American neurosurgeon
Anton Chekhov — writer
Laurel B. Clark (1961–2003) — American astronaut, killed in the
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) — mathematician and astronomer
Merv Cross (1941–2023) — rugby league player
Mary Lee Edward (1885–1980) — pioneer and surgeon and a hero during
World War I on the front lines in France.
Ted Eisenberg —
Guinness World Record holder for most
breast augmentation surgeries performed.
Steven Eisenberg — known as "The Singing Cancer Doctor."
Sextus Empiricus (2nd–3rd century C.E.) — philosopher
Ken Evoy
Roberto Horcades Figueira — former chairman of the
Fluminense Football Club
Giovanni Fontana — Venetian physician, engineer, and encyclopedist
Luigi Galvani — physicist
Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) — philosopher
William Gilbert (1544–1603) — physicist
Carl Goresky — physician and scientist
W. G. Grace — cricketer
John Franklin Gray (1804–1881) — American educator, first practitioner of homeopathy in the US
Nehemiah Grew — botanist
Samuel Hahnemann — founder of homeopathy
Armand Hammer — entrepreneur
Daniel Harris
Karin M. Hehenberger — diabetes expert
Hermann von Helmholtz — physicist
Jan Baptist van Helmont (1577–1655) — physiologist
Harry Hill — British comedian
Courtney Howard — Yellowknife-based ER physician and one-time leadership candidate,
Green Party of Canada
Samuel Gridley Howe — abolitionist
Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt (1810–1889) — President of the
Connecticut State Medical Society ; director of the Retreat for the Insane
Varsha Jain — UK Space doctor/researcher for women's health
Mae Jemison (born 1956) — astronaut
David Johnson — American swimmer
Stuart Kauffman (born 1939) — biologist
John Keats — poet and author
John Harvey Kellogg — cereal manufacturer
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) — columnist and political commentator
Marianne Lindsten-Thomasson (1909–1979) — Sweden's first female district medical officer during the 1940s
Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909) — based his system of
criminology on
physiognomy
John McAndrew (1927–2013) — All-Ireland Gaelic footballer
June McCarroll — inventor of
lane markings
Pat McGeer — Canadian basketball player
Julia Lore McGrew – medical missionary
James McHenry (1753–1816) — signer of the
United States Constitution
Archibald Menzies — naturalist
Franz Mesmer (1734–1815) — proponent of
mesmerism and the idea of
animal magnetism
Jonathan Miller (1934–2019) — television presenter and stage director
Paul Möhring (1710–1792) — zoologist, botanist
Maria Montessori — educator
Boris V. Morukov — cosmonaut
Lee "Final Table" Nelson — professional poker player
Haing S. Ngor — Oscar-winning film actor
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (1758–1840) — astronomer
Dinesh Palipana — physician with disability and advocate
Roza Papo — army general
James Parkinson — physician, geologist, political activist
Claude Perrault — architect
Christian Hendrik Persoon — South African botanist
Pope John XXI — pope
Scott Powell — co-founder of the nostalgia group
Sha Na Na
Weston A. Price — traveler, educator
Syed Ziaur Rahman — physician and medical scientist
John Ray — plant taxonomer
Prathap C. Reddy
Bradbury Robinson — threw the first legal
forward pass in
American football history while a medical student at
St. Louis University
Peter Mark Roget — English lexicographer
Jacques Rogge — sports official
Mowaffak al-Rubaie — human rights advocate, member of the Interim Iraqi Governing Council
Benjamin Rush — signer of the
United States Constitution
Daniel Rutherford (1749–1819) — chemist
Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana
Félix Savart — physicist
Guido Schäffer (1974–2009) — Brazilian venerable
Albert Schweitzer — humanist
Michael Servetus (1511–1553) — burnt at the stake by
Calvinists for
heresy
Paul Sinha — British comedian
Rob Sitch — Australian comedian
Sócrates (1954–2011, Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira) — Brazilian football (soccer) player
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) — British
missionary to
China and founder of the
China Inland Mission
Norman Earl Thagard — astronaut
Debi Thomas (born 1967) — Olympic figure skater
William E. Thornton — astronaut
John Tidwell — American basketball player
Nasiruddin al-Tusi — astronomer
Laura Veale — first qualified woman doctor practising in
Harrogate and
North Riding of Yorkshire
Andrew Wakefield — conducted studies on disputed link between
vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders, which had many serious consequences
William Walker — Latin American adventurer
Moshe Wallach (1866–1957) — founder and director of
Shaare Zedek Hospital , Jerusalem, for 45 years
John Clarence Webster — Canadian historian
Wilhelm Weinberg — with
G. H. Hardy , developed the
Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium model of population genetics
JPR Williams — rugby union player
Hugh Williamson — American patriot, statesman, Surgeon General of SC
Thomas Young — scientist
Tanzir Islam Britto — Bangladeshi physician, wrote the first
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
review article .
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