List of pathologists
A list of people notable in the field of pathology.
- Maude Abbott (1869-1940), Canadian pathologist, one of the earliest women graduated in Medicine, expert in congenital heart diseases.
- Lauren Ackerman (1905-1993), American pathologist and one of the fathers of Surgical pathology
- Max Bielschowsky
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish pathologist and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1906
- Francis Camps
- Marie Cassidy
- Benjamin Castleman
- David C. Dahlin (1917–2003)
- Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915)
- James Ewing (pathologist) (1866-1943), American pathologist nicknamed "cancer man"; first professor of Pathology at Cornell University, discoverer of the Ewing's sarcoma and one of the founders of the American Association for Cancer Research.
- Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1867–1928), Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1926
- Gustav Giemsa (1867–1948), see Giemsa stain
- Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1906
- Ernest Goodpasture
- Austin Gresham (1925–2009)
- Ludvig Hektoen (1863–1951)
- Thomas Hodgkin
- Martin J. Fettman (1956-), veterinary pathologist and astronaut
- Ernest Kennaway (1881–1958)
- Jack Kevorkian
- William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), see leishmaniasis
- Richard May
- Frank Burr Mallory (1862–1941), see Mallory bodies
- John McCrae (1872-1918), pathologist, physician, textbook author, and poet
- Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), Italian pathologist, considered the father of modern Anatomical Pathology
- Thomas Noguchi (1927-), forensic pathologist
- George Nicolas Papanicolaou (1883–1962), see Pap smear
- Artur Pappenheim
- Donald Rix (1931-2009)
- Carl von Rokitansky
- Dmitri Leonidovich Romanowsky (1861–1921), see Romanowsky stain
- Juan Rosai, Italian-American surgical pathologist, discoverer of the Rosai-Dorfman disease and desmoplastic small round cell tumor
- Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1932
- Maud Slye (1879–1954)
- Sophie Spitz (1910–1956), see Spitz nevus
- Javier Arias Stella, Peruvian pathologist, described the Arias Stella reaction of the endometrium.
- Stephen Sternberg, founding Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Surgical Pathology and editor of textbooks.
- Arthur Purdy Stout (1885–1967). American surgeon and pathologist, one of the fathers of modern Surgical pathology.
- Paul Gerson Unna
- Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902)
- Robin Warren, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2005
- Carl Weigert
- Sharon Weiss, American surgical pathologist, professor and international expert on soft tissue pathology (Sarcoma).
- James Homer Wright (1869–1928), see Wright stain
See also