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This is a list of famous [[physician]]s in history.
==Chronological lists==
=== Ancient physicians ===
30th century BCE to 4th century CE
* [[List of ancient physicians]]
===Post-classical physicians ===
5th century CE to 15th century CE
* [[List of post-classical physicians]]
===Early modern physicians===
16th century CE to the mid-18th century CE
* [[List of early modern physicians]]
=== Late modern physicians ===
mid-18th century CE to the mid-20th century CE
* [[List of late modern physicians]]
* [[Wilfrid Edgecombe]] (1871–1963) — English surgeon, [[spa]] doctor and [[general practice|general practitioner]].<ref name="Lancet 1963, 1, 895" >{{cite journal |title=Edgecombe, Wilfred (1871 - 1963) |journal=Lancet|via=Royal College of Surgeons of England |date=1963 |volume=1 |page=895 |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:377517/one |access-date=20 July 2025 |quote=Also in British Medical Journal 1963, page 1350.}}</ref>
== Physicians famous for their role in advancement of medicine ==
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* [[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) — [[Al-Andalus|Andalusian]] polymath
* [[Avicenna]] (980–1037) — [[Persian people|Persian]] physician
* [[Gerbrand Bakker (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 (medical scientist)|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 (physician)|James Carson]] (1772–1843)
* [[Charaka]] ({{circa|100 BCE}} – 200 CE) — [[India]]n 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) — [[United States|American]] nutritionist and exercise physiologist, [[Paleolithic diet]]
* [[Harvey Cushing]] (1869–1939) — [[United States|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 [[Prontosil|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 illness|psychosomatic medicine]]
* [[Galen]] (129–{{circa|210}}) — [[Ancient Rome|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 (disease)|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) — [[England|English]] anatomist and surgeon, creator of ''[[Gray's Anatomy]]''
* [[Ernst Haeckel]] (1834–1919) — physician and anatomist
* [[William Harvey]] (1578–1657) — [[England|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]] ({{circa|460}}–370 BCE) — [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] father of [[medicine]]
* [[John Hunter (surgeon)|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) — [[England|English]] physician popularized [[vaccination]]
* [[Elliott P. Joslin]] (1869–1962) — pioneer in the treatment of [[diabetes]]
* [[Carl Jung]] (1875–1961) — [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[psychiatrist]]
* [[Leo Kanner]] (1894–1981) — [[Austria]]n-[[United States|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, 1st Baron Lister|Joseph Lister]] (1827–1912) — pioneer of [[antiseptic]] [[surgery]]
* [[Richard Lower (physician)|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
* [[Madhava-kara|Madhav]] (8th century A.D.) — medical text author and systematizer
* [[Maimonides]] (1135–1204)
* [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694) — [[Italians|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 (doctor)|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 [[Intracranial aneurysm|aneurysm]]s, first in South Asia to perform [[stereotactic radiosurgery]], first in India to perform [[awake craniotomy]] and [[laparoscopic]] spine surgery.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Basant Kumar Misra, President NSI 2008 |url=http://www.neurosocietyindia.org/site/Past-president/Basant%20Kumar%20Misra,%20President%20NSI%202008.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729194244/http://www.neurosocietyindia.org/site/Past-president/Basant%20Kumar%20Misra,%20President%20NSI%202008.pdf |archive-date=2020-07-29 |url-status=usurped |website=Neurological Society of India}}</ref>
* [[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
* [[Dr Richard Morton|Richard Morton]] (1637–1698) — identified [[Tubercle (anatomy)|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
* [[Georgios Papanikolaou|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) — [[Australia]]n public health administrator
* [[Rhazes]] ({{circa|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 organ]]s.<ref>[http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/LHIST.HTM Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829211208/http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/LHIST.HTM |date=2007-08-29 }}</ref>
* [[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 [[:fr:Syndrome de Skumin|Skumin syndrome]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://aan.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/10/16/0218492313493427 |title=Andrea Ruzza. Nonpsychotic mental disorder after open heart surgery. Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals October 16, 2013 |access-date=November 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200316025003/http://aan.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/10/16/0218492313493427 |archive-date=March 16, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (a disorder of the [[central nervous system]] of some [[patient]]s after receiving a [[prosthetic heart valve]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ukraine-in.ua/en/science/velikie-ukainskie-mediki |title=Ukrainian doctors which changed the world |publisher=Ukraine-in.ua |accessdate=20 June 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182512/http://ukraine.ui.ua/en/science/velikie-ukainskie-mediki |archivedate=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[John Snow (physician)|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]] ({{circa|500 BCE}}) — [[India]]n 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) — [[Belgians|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) — [[Germans|German]] pathologist, founder of fields of comparative pathology and cellular pathology
* [[Carl Warburg]] (1805–1892) — German/[[British people|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 Whipple|Allen Oldfather Whipple]] (1881–1963) — devised the [[Whipple procedure]] in 1935 for treatment of [[pancreatic cancer]]
* [[Priscilla White (physician)|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
* [[Olaus Wormius|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 transplant]]ation
* [[Boris Yegorov]] (1937–1994) — first physician in space (1964)
* [[Zhang Xichun]] (1860–1933) — first physician to integrate Chinese and Western medicine
== Physicians famous chiefly as eponyms ==
{{see also|Medical eponyms}}
Among the better known [[eponym]]s:
* [[Thomas Addison]] (1793–1860) – [[Addison's disease]]
* [[Alois Alzheimer]] (1864–1915) – [[Alzheimer's disease]]
* [[Hans Asperger]] (1906–1980) – [[Asperger syndrome]]
* [[John Brereton Barlow]] (1924–2008) – [[Mitral valve prolapse|Barlow's syndrome]]
* [[Karl Adolph von Basedow]] (1799–1854) – [[Basedow disease]]
* [[Hulusi Behçet]] (1889–1948) – [[Behçet's disease]]
* [[Paul Broca]] (1824–1880) – [[Broca's area]]
* [[David Bruce (microbiologist)|David Bruce]] (1855–1931) – [[Brucellosis]]
* [[Denis Parsons Burkitt]] (1911–1993) – [[Burkitt lymphoma]]
* [[Albert Calmette]] (1863–1933) – [[Bacillus Calmette-Guérin]] (BCG), a [[vaccine]] for [[tuberculosis]]
* [[Carlos Chagas]] (1879–1934) – [[Chagas disease]]
* [[Jean-Martin Charcot]] (1825–1893) – ''[[Motor Neurone Disease|Maladie de Charcot]]'', [[Charcot joints]], [[Charcot's triad]], [[Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease]]
* [[Jerome W. Conn]] (1907–1981) – [[Conn's Syndrome]] (primary hyperaldosteronism)
* [[Burrill Bernard Crohn]] (1884–1983) – [[Crohn's disease]]
* [[Harvey Cushing]] (1869–1939) – [[Cushing's disease]]
* [[John Langdon Down]] (1828–1896) – [[Down syndrome]]
* [[Bartolomeo Eustachi]] (c. 1500–1510 – 1574) – [[Eustachian tube]]
* [[Gabriele Falloppio]] (1522/23 – 1562) – [[Fallopian tube]]
* [[Camillo Golgi]] (1843–1926) – [[Golgi apparatus]]
* [[Ernst Gräfenberg]] (1881–1957) – [[Gräfenberg spot]] (G-spot)
* [[Joseph-Ignace Guillotin]] (1738–1814) – [[guillotine]]
* [[Gerhard Armauer Hansen]] (1841–1912) – [[Hansen's disease]]
* [[Thomas Hodgkin]] (1798–1866) – [[Hodgkin's disease]]
* [[George Huntington]] (1850–1916) – [[Huntington's disease]]
* [[Moritz Kaposi]] (1837–1902) – [[Kaposi's sarcoma]]
* [[Wilhelm Frederick von Ludwig]] (1790–1865) – [[Ludwig's angina]]
* [[Charles Mantoux]] (1877–1947) – [[Mantoux test]] for [[tuberculosis]]
* [[Antoine Marfan]] (1858–1942) – [[Marfan syndrome]]
* [[Silas Weir Mitchell (physician)|Silas Weir Mitchell]] (1829–1914) – [[Mitchell's disease]]
* [[James Paget]] (1814–1899) – [[Paget's disease of bone|Paget's disease]]
* [[James Parkinson]] (1755–1824) – [[Parkinson's syndrome]]
* [[Juan Rosai]] (1940–2020) – [[Rosai–Dorfman disease]]
* [[Daniel Elmer Salmon]] (1850–1914) – [[Salmonella]]
* [[Gunnar B. Stickler]] (1925–2010) – [[Stickler syndrome]]
* [[Georges Gilles de la Tourette]] (1857–1904) – [[Tourette syndrome]]
* [[Max Wilms]] (1867–1918) – [[Wilms' tumor]]
* [[Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson]] (1878–1937) – [[Wilson's disease]]
== Physicians famous as criminals ==
* [[John Bodkin Adams]] – British general practitioner; suspected [[serial killer]], thought to have killed over 160 patients; acquitted of one murder in 1957 but convicted of prescription fraud, not keeping a dangerous drug register, obstructing a police search and lying on cremation forms
* [[Karl Brandt (Nazi physician)|Karl Brandt]] (1904–1948) – [[Nazi human experimentation]]
* [[Edme Castaing]] – murderer
* [[George Chapman (murderer)|George Chapman]] – Polish poisoner and [[Jack the Ripper]] suspect
* [[Robert George Clements]] – murderer
* [[Nigel Cox (doctor)|Nigel Cox]] – only British doctor to be convicted of attempted [[euthanasia]]
* [[Thomas Neill Cream]] – murderer
* [[Hawley Harvey Crippen]] – executed for his wife's murder
* [[Baruch Goldstein]] (1956–1994) – assassin
* [[Linda Hazzard]] – convicted of murdering one patient but suspected of 12 in total
* [[H.H. Holmes]] – American [[serial killer]]
* [[Shirō Ishii]] – headed Japan's [[Unit 731]] during [[World War II]] which conducted [[human experimentation]] for weapons and medical research
* [[Mario Jascalevich]] - killed 9 hospital patients using [[curare]]
* [[Radovan Karadžić]] (born 1945) – convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in [[Yugoslavia]]
* [[Jack Kevorkian]] (1923–2011) – convicted of second-degree murder, Michigan, April 13, 1999
* [[Jeffrey R. MacDonald]] – murdered a pregnant wife and two daughters in 1979
* [[Josef Mengele]] (1911–1979) – known as the Angel of Death; [[Nazi human experimentation]]
* [[Samuel Mudd]] (1833–1883) – condemned to prison for setting the leg of [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s assassin
* [[Herman Webster Mudgett]] (1860–1896) – American [[serial killer]]
* [[Conrad Murray]] – convicted of involuntary manslaughter in death of pop star Michael Jackson
* [[Arnfinn Nesset]] – Norwegian [[serial killer]]
* [[William Palmer (murderer)|William Palmer]] – British poisoner
* [[Marcel Petiot]] – French serial killer
* [[Herta Oberheuser]] (1911–1978) – Nazi human experimentation
* [[Richard J. Schmidt]] – American physician who contaminated his girlfriend with AIDS-tainted blood
* [[Harold Shipman]] (1946–2004) – British serial killer
* [[Michael Swango]] (born 1953) – American serial killer
* An A-Z list of Wikipedia articles of [[Nazi doctors]]
== Physicians famous as writers ==
{{Main|Physician writer}}
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 (novelist)|Robin Cook]] - American author of bestselling novels, wrote ''[[Coma (novel)|Coma]]''
* [[Michael Crichton]] (1942–2008) - American author of ''[[Jurassic Park (novel)|Jurassic Park]]''
* [[A. J. Cronin]] (1896–1981) - Scottish novelist and essayist, author of ''[[The Citadel (novel)|The Citadel]]''
* [[Theodore Dalrymple|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 [[syphilis|syphilitic]] [[aorta|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–{{circa|1716}}) - historian
* [[Chris Adrian]]
* [[Giorgio Antonucci]] (1933–2017) - Italian physician and poet, known for his questioning of the bases of psychiatry
* [[Jacob M. Appel|Jacob Appel]] - short story writer
* [[
* [[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
* [[
* [[Ludwig Büchner]] - German philosopher
* [[
* [[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 (author)|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]]''
* [[
* [[Elmina M. Roys Gavitt]] (1828–1898) - American physician; medical journal founder, editor-in-chief
* [[Atul Gawande]] - surgeon and ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]'' medical writer
* [[William Gilbert (author)|William Gilbert]] - British author; father of [[W. S. Gilbert]]
* [[
* [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]] (1809–1894) - American essayist
* [[Richard Hooker (author)|Richard Hooker]] - author of ''[[M*A*S*H (novels)|M*A*S*H]]''
* [[Arthur Johnston (poet)|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 (novel)|Solaris]]'')
* [[Carlo Levi]] (1902–1975) - Italian novelist and writer
* [[
* [[Adeline Yen Mah]] - Chinese-American author
*
* [[Jean-Paul Marat]] (1743–1793) - French writer, a leader of [[French Revolution]]; assassinated in bathtub
* [[Silas Weir Mitchell (physician)|Silas Weir Mitchell]] (1829–1914) - American writer
* [[Mungo Park (explorer)|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 [[
* [[
* [[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 ''[[The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care|Baby and Child Care]]''
* [[Patrick Taylor (author)|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 [[Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet|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 ==
* [[
* [[
* [[
* [[Ayad Allawi]] - interim Prime Minister of Iraq
* [[Salvador Allende]] (1908–1973) - Chilean president
* [[
* [[Arnulfo Arias]] - Panamanian President
* [[Firdous Ashiq Awan]] - Pakistani politician
* [[Bashar al-Assad]] - Syrian national leader
* [[
* [[
* [[Gro Harlem Brundtland]] (born 1939) - first [[Norway|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]] - [[List of Prime Ministers of Saint Kitts and Nevis|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 Stockmar|Christian Friedrich, Baron von Stockmar]] -
* [[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 [[Trial of Radovan Karadžić|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 Kubitschek de Oliveira|Juscelino Kubitscheck]] - [[Brazil]]ian president
* [[Mahathir
* [[Agostinho Neto]] (
* [[Navin Ramgoolam]] - Prime minister of [[Mauritius]]
* [[Lloyd J. Richardson|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 (1912–1949)|Republic of China]]
* [[Tabaré Vázquez]] - former Uruguayan President
* [[Ali Akbar Velayati]] (born 1945) - [[Iran]]ian [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Iran)|Foreign Minister]],
* [[Ursula von der Leyen]] (born 1958) - [[Germany|German]] Federal Minister of Defence, 13th president of the European Commission
* [[William Walker (filibuster)|William Walker]] (1824–1860) - ruler of [[Nicaragua]]
* [[
* [[Yeoh Eng-kiong]] - former Secretary for Health and Welfare of Hong Kong
=== Argentina ===
* [[Luis Agote]] (1868–1954)
* [[Nicolas Bazan]] (born 1942)
* [[Hermes Binner]]
* [[Eduardo Braun-Menéndez]] (1903–1959)
* [[Ramón Carrillo]] (1906–1956)
* [[Bernardo Houssay]] (1887–1971)
* [[René Favaloro]] (1923–2000)
* [[Arturo Umberto Illia]] - 35th President of [[Argentina]] (1963–1966)
* [[Luis Federico Leloir]] (1906–1987)
* [[Julia Polak]] (1939–2014)
* [[Alberto Carlos Taquini]] (1905–1998)
=== Azerbaijan ===
* [[Karim bey Mehmandarov]]
=== Australia ===
* [[Bob Brown]] - parliamentary leader of the [[Australian Greens]]
* [[Andrew Laming]] - [[Australia]]n politician
* [[Peter Macdonald (Australian politician)|Peter Macdonald]]
* [[Brendan Nelson]] - [[Australia]]n politician
* Sir [[Earle Page]] - Prime Minister of Australia
* [[Dinesh Palipana]] - first quadriplegic medical graduate in [[Queensland]], disability advocate
* [[Andrew Refshauge]] - [[Australia]]n politician
* [[Mal Washer]]
* [[Michael Wooldridge (politician)|Michael Wooldridge]]
=== Brazil ===
* [[Geraldo Alckmin]] - [[Vice President of Brazil]], [[Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services|Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services]], former [[Governor of São Paulo]], former [[Vice Governor of São Paulo]], former mayor of [[Pindamonhangaba]] and former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]]
* [[Antônio Austregésilo]] - former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[Pernambuco]]
* [[Enéas Carneiro]] - former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]] and former presidential candidate
* [[Marcelo Castro]] - [[Federal Senate (Brazil)|senator]] for [[Piauí]] and former [[Ministry of Health (Brazil)|Minister of Health]]
* [[Arthur Chioro]] - former [[Ministry of Health (Brazil)|Minister of Health]]
* [[Humberto Costa]] - [[Federal Senate (Brazil)|senator]] for [[Pernambuco]]
* [[Antônio Salim Curiati]] - former [[Mayor of São Paulo]]
* [[Pedro Ernesto]] - former [[Mayor of Rio de Janeiro]]
* [[Jandira Feghali]] - [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]]
* [[André Fufuca]] - [[Ministry of Sports (Brazil)|Minister of Sports]] and former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[Maranhão]]
* [[Paulo Garcia (Brazilian politician)|Paulo Garcia]] - former mayor of [[Goiânia]]
* [[Hiran Gonçalves]] - [[Federal Senate (Brazil)|senator]] for [[Roraima]] and former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[Roraima]]
* [[Ângela Guadagnin]] - former mayor of [[São José dos Campos]] and former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]]
* [[Eduardo Jorge]] - former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]] and former presidential candidate
* [[Juscelino Kubitschek]] - former [[President of Brazil]], former [[List of governors of Minas Gerais|Governor of Minas Gerais]], former [[Federal Senate (Brazil)|senator]] for [[Goiás]], former [[Mayor of Belo Horizonte]] and former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[Minas Gerais]]
* [[Lavoisier Maia]] - former [[Governor of Rio Grande do Norte]], former [[Federal Senate (Brazil)|senator]] for [[Rio Grande do Norte]] and former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[Rio Grande do Norte]]
* [[Zenaide Maia]] - [[Federal Senate (Brazil)|senator]] for [[Rio Grande do Norte]] and former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[Rio Grande do Norte]]
* [[Luiz Henrique Mandetta]] - former [[Ministry of Health (Brazil)|Minister of Health]] and former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[Mato Grosso do Sul]]
* [[Raquel Muniz]] - former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[Minas Gerais]]
* [[Carlos Neder]] - former [[Legislative Assembly of São Paulo|state deputy of São Paulo]]
* [[Alexandre Padilha]] - [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]] and former [[Ministry of Health (Brazil)|Minister of Health]]
* [[Darcísio Perondi]] - [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[Rio Grande do Sul]]
* [[Mario Pinotti]] - former [[Ministry of Health (Brazil)|Minister of Health]] and former mayor of [[Nova Iguaçu]]
* [[Marcelo Queiroga]] - former [[Ministry of Health (Brazil)|Minister of Health]]
* [[Hélio de Oliveira Santos]] - former mayor of [[Campinas]] and former [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]]
* [[Alexandre Serfiotis]] - [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]]
* [[Nelson Teich]] - former [[Ministry of Health (Brazil)|Minister of Health]]
* [[José Gomes Temporão]] - former [[Ministry of Health (Brazil)|Minister of Health]]
=== Canada ===
* [[Philippe Couillard]] - former [[Prime Minister]] of [[Quebec]]
* [[Tommy Douglas|Thomas "Tommy" Douglas]]
* [[Carolyn Bennett]]
* [[Stanley K. Bernstein]]
* [[Frederick William Borden]] - [[Canadians|Canadian]] MP and minister of the Militia
* [[Bernard-Augustin Conroy]]
* [[John Waterhouse Daniel]]
* [[Hedy Fry]] (born 1941) - Canadian politician, member of parliament
* [[Dennis Furlong]]
* [[Charles Godfrey (physician)|Charles Godfrey]]
* [[Grant Hill (politician)|Grant Hill]] - former Canadian MP
* [[Wilbert Keon]] - Canadian senator
* [[Keith Martin (politician)|Keith Martin]] - [[Portuguese Canadian]] MP
* [[William McGuigan]] - mayor of [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]]
* [[Théodore Robitaille]] - [[Lieutenant Governor of Quebec]], Quebec MNA and Senator
* [[Bette Stephenson]] - [[Ontario]] MPP and former Minister of Labour, Minister of Education and Minister of Colleges and Universities
* [[Donald Matheson Sutherland]] - MP and former minister of National Defence
* [[David Swann]]
* Sir [[Charles Tupper]] (1821–1915) - [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (1896) and [[Premier of Nova Scotia]] (1864–1867); High Commissioner in Great Britain (1884–1887)
=== France ===
* [[Louis Auguste Blanqui]] - French revolutionary socialist
* [[Georges Clemenceau]] (1841–1929) - French statesman
* [[Jean-Paul Marat]] - French revolution leader
=== Italy ===
* [[Guido Baccelli]] (1830–1916) - seven times Minister of education
=== Japan ===
* [[Tomoko Abe]] - [[House of Representatives of Japan|Representative of Japan]]
* [[Ichirō Kamoshita]] - Representative of Japan, former Environment Minister
* [[Taro Nakayama]] - former Representative of Japan, former Foreign Minister
* [[Chikara Sakaguchi]] - Representative of Japan, former Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
* [[Koichiro Shimizu]] - former Representative of Japan, one of [[Koizumi Children]]
* [[Tsutomu Tomioka]] - former Representative of Japan, one of Koizumi Children
=== Pakistan ===
* [[Firdous Ashiq Awan]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Firdous Ashiq Awan: professional doctor to seasoned parliamentarian |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/1424853/firdous-ashiq-awan-professional-doctor-seasoned-parliamentarian |access-date=19 June 2021 |work=The Express Tribune |date=2017-06-01 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Asim Hussain]]
* [[Ghulam Hussain (politician)|Ghulam Hussain]]
=== The Netherlands ===
* [[Frederik van Eeden]]
* [[J. Slauerhoff]]
* [[Simon Vestdijk]]
* [[Leo Vroman]]
=== United Kingdom ===
* [[Liam Fox]] - former British [[Secretary of State for Defence]]
* [[John Pope Hennessy]] - former [[Governor of Hong Kong]]
* [[David Owen]] - British politician
=== United States ===
* [[Stewart Barlow]] - member of the [[Utah House of Representatives]]
* [[Larry Bucshon]] (born 1962) - [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Congressman]] from [[Indiana]]
* [[Michael C. Burgess]] (born 1950) - U.S. Congressman from [[Texas]]
* [[Ben Carson]] (born September 18, 1951) - [[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]]
* [[Tom Coburn]] (1948–2020) - [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]]
* [[Howard Dean]] (born 1948) - former [[Governor of Vermont]]
* [[Scott Ecklund]] - member of the [[South Dakota House of Representatives]]
* [[Joe Ellington]] (born 1959) - member of the [[West Virginia House of Delegates]]
* [[Bill Frist]] (born 1952) - [[United States Senate Majority Leader]]
* [[Joe Heck]] (born 1961) - U.S. Congressman
* [[Steve Henry]] (born 1953) - [[Lieutenant Governor]] of [[Kentucky]]
* [[Jim McDermott]] - U.S. Congressman
* [[Larry McDonald]] - U.S. Congressman
* [[Ralph Northam]] (born 1959) - [[Governor of Virginia]]
* [[Christopher Ottiano]] (born 1969) - member of the [[Rhode Island Senate]]
* [[Rand Paul]] (born 1963) - U.S. Senator
* [[Ron Paul]] (born 1935) - U.S. Congressman
* [[Tom Price (American politician)|Tom Price]] (born 1954) - U.S. Congressman from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and former Secretary of Health and Human Services
* [[David Watkins (Kentucky politician)|David Watkins]] - member of the [[Kentucky House of Representatives]]
* [[Dave Weldon]] - U.S. Congressman and [[autism]] activist
* [[Ray Lyman Wilbur]] (1875–1949) - [[United States Secretary of the Interior]], president of [[Stanford University]]
* [[Milton R. Wolf]]
* [[Thomas Wynne]] (1627–1691) - physician to [[William Penn]], speaker of the first two Provincial Assemblies in Philadelphia (1687 & 1688)
== Physicians famous as sportspeople ==
* [[Tenley Albright]] — Olympic figure skating champion
* [[Lisa Aukland]] — American professional bodybuilder and powerlifter
* [[Sir Roger Bannister]] (1929–2018) — first man to break the four-minute mile; English neurologist
* [[Tim Brabants]] — sprint kayaker, Olympic gold medalist
* [[Paulo do Rio Branco]] — French-Brazilian rugby union player
* [[Felipe Contepomi]] — Argentine rugby union footballer
* [[Ted Eisenberg]] — American 2018 world champion in long distance tomahawk throwing
* [[Gail Hopkins]] — American professional baseball player
* [[David Gerrard]] — New Zealand swimmer
* [[Randy Gregg (ice hockey)|Randy Gregg]] — ice hockey player
* [[Jack Lovelock]] (1910–1949) — Olympic athlete
* [[Richard Mamiya]] (1925–2019) — football player
* [[Doc Medich]] — American baseball player
* [[Stephen Rerych]] — American swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder
* [[Dot Richardson]] — American softball player, Olympics; orthopedic physician
* [[Sócrates]] (Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira) — Brazilian soccer player, played for the national team 1979–1986
== Physicians famous for their role in television and the media ==
=== Australia ===
* [[Jeremy Cumpston]]
* [[Jonathan LaPaglia]]
* [[Peter Larkins]]
* [[Renee Lim]]
* [[Andrew Rochford]]
* [[Rob Sitch]]
=== Brazil ===
* [[Thelma Assis]]
* [[Fred Nicácio]]
* [[Lúcia Petterle]]
* [[Robert Rey (plastic surgeon)|Robert Rey]]
* [[Drauzio Varella]]
=== Finland ===
* [[Emilia Vuorisalmi]]
=== Germany ===
* [[Marianne Koch]]
* [[Gunther Philipp]]
=== Ireland ===
* [[Ronan Tynan]]
=== Malta ===
* [[Gianluca Bezzina]]
=== Norway ===
* [[Anders Danielsen Lie]]
* [[Gro Harlem Brundtland]] (born 1939) - first Norwegian female prime minister; Director-General of the World Health Organization
=== Pakistan ===
* [[Shaista Lodhi]]<ref name="Pak celeb">{{cite news |title=Top 5 Pakistani Celebrities who are doctors |url=https://style.pk/top-5-pakistani-celebrities-who-are-doctors/ |access-date=19 June 2021 |work=Style.Pk |date=2015-07-05}}</ref>
* [[Ayesha Gul]]<ref name="Pak celeb" />
* [[Fahad Mirza]]<ref name="Pak celeb" />
=== South Africa ===
* [[Phil du Plessis]]
=== Spain ===
* [[El Gran Wyoming]]
=== Sweden ===
* [[Staffan Hallerstam]]
* [[Jesper Salén]]
* [[Rebecka Liljeberg]]
=== United Kingdom ===
* [[Carina Tyrrell]]
* [[Tony Gardner]]
* [[Harry Hill]]
* [[Christian Jessen]]
* [[Sunshine Martyn]]
* [[Pixie McKenna]]
* [[Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller]]
* [[Darwin Shaw]]
* [[Hank Wangford]]
=== United States ===
* [[Jennifer Ashton]]
* [[Andrew Baldwin]]
* [[Jennifer Berman]]
* [[Deepak Chopra]]
* [[Lyn Christie]]
* [[Terry Dubrow]]
* [[Garth Fisher]]
* [[Leo Galland]]
* [[Anthony C. Griffin]]
* [[Sanjay Gupta]]
* [[Randal Haworth]]
* [[Jason Todd Ipson]]
* [[Matt Iseman]]
* [[Ken Jeong]]
* [[Sean Kenniff]]
* [[Will Kirby]]
* [[C. Everett Koop]]
* [[John S. Marr]]
* [[Lucky Meisenheimer]]
* [[Paul Nassif]]
* [[Andrew P. Ordon]]
* [[Mehmet Oz]]
* [[Nicholas Perricone]]
* [[Drew Pinsky]]
* [[Bernard Punsly]]
* [[Robert Rey (plastic surgeon)|Robert Rey]]
* [[Brent Ridge]]
* [[Nancy Snyderman]]
* [[Benjamin Spock]]
* [[Travis Lane Stork|Travis Stork]]
== Physicians famous as beauty queens ==
* [[Mahmure Birsen Sakaoğlu]], Miss Turkey 1936
* [[Eva Andersson-Dubin]], Miss Sweden 1980
* [[Deidre Downs]], Miss America 2005
* [[Anna Malova]], Miss Russia 1998
* [[Lúcia Petterle]], Miss World 1971 for Brazil
* [[Limor Schreibman-Sharir]], Miss Israel 1973
==Physicians famous as first ladies==
* [[Susan Lynch (pediatrician)]], First Lady of [[New Hampshire]]
* [[Mildred Scheel]], wife of [[Walter Scheel]]
==Physicians famous for other activities==
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* [[Anderson Ruffin Abbott]]
* [[Jane Addams]] — social activist
* Dav and [[ultrasound]] technologies to [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]{{Clarify|reason=what is this? how does this fit here?|date=January 2022}}
* [[Oswald Avery]] (1877–1955) — molecular biologist who discovered [[DNA]] carried genetic information
* [[Ali Bacher]] — cricketer
* [[Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (medieval writer)|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
* [[
* [[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, politician, former cabinet member
* [[
* [[Laurel B. Clark]] (1961–2003) — American astronaut, killed in the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster]]
* [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] (1473–1543) — mathematician and astronomer
* [[Merv Cross]] (1941–2023) — rugby league player
* [[Ivan Edwards]] - USAF flight surgeon, minister, activist, humanitarian
* [[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 enlargement surgery|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 FC|Fluminense Football Club]]
* [[Giovanni Fontana (engineer)|Giovanni Fontana]] — Venetian physician, engineer, and encyclopedist
* [[Luigi Galvani]] — physicist
* [[Pierre Gassendi]] (1592–1655) — philosopher
* [[William Gilbert (astronomer)|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
* [[Blanche Moore Haines]] (1865–1944) - suffragist
* [[Armand Hammer]] — entrepreneur
* [[Daniel Harris (cricketer)|Daniel Harris]]
* [[Lydia Cromwell Hearne]] - American civic leader
* [[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 [[The Connecticut State Medical Society|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 (swimmer)|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 (Gaelic footballer)|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 Nelson (poker player)|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
* [[Nabeel Qureshi (author)|Nabeel Qureshi]] - Christian apologist and author
* [[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 Schaffer|Guido Schäffer]] (1974–2009) — Brazilian venerable
* [[Albert Schweitzer]] — humanist
* [[Michael Servetus]] (1511–1553) — burnt at the stake by [[Calvinism|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 (basketball)|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 [[vaccine]]s and neurodevelopmental disorders, which had many serious consequences
* [[William Walker (filibuster)|William Walker]] — Latin American adventurer
* [[Moshe Wallach]] (1866–1957) — founder and director of [[Shaare Zedek Medical Center|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
* [[J. P. R. Williams]] — rugby union player
* [[Hugh Williamson]] — American patriot, statesman, Surgeon General of SC
* [[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]] — scientist
== See also ==
* [[List of fictional physicians]]
* [[List of psychiatrists]]
* [[List of neurologists and neurosurgeons]]
* [[List of people in healthcare]]
* [[List of presidents of the Royal College of Physicians]]
* [[List of Iraqi physicians]]
* [[List of Russian physicians and psychologists]]
* [[List of Slovenian physicians]]
* [[List of Turkish physicians]]
==References==
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