List of physicians

This is a list of famous physicians in history:

Physicians famous for their role in advancement of medicine

• Gary Aaron (born 1953)
• Marco Abbondanza (born 1953) - Italian physician and eye surgeon, inventor of the Mini Asymmetric Radial Keratotomy (M.A.R.K.) and popularizer of the Cross-linking
• Avicenna (980–1037) — Persian physician
• Averroës (1126–1198) — Andalusian polymath
• William Osler Abbott (1902–1943) — co-developed the Miller-Abbott tube
• Matthew Andrews (1919–2006) — delivered America's first in vitro baby; president of the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society
• Virginia Apgar (1909–1974) — anesthesiologist who devised the Apgar score used after childbirth
• William Stewart Agras — feeding behavior
• Jean Astruc (1684–1766) — wrote one of the first treatises on syphilis
• 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) - the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and the first openly identified woman to receive a medical degree. She pioneered the advancement of Women in medicine.
• Alfred Blalock (1899–1964) — most 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
• Charaka — 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
• Harvey Cushing (1869–1939) - American neurosurgeon and the father of modern day brain surgery.
• Loren Cordain (1950) - American nutritionist and exercise physiologist, Paleolithic diet
• 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
• Ian Olver (born 1953)
• Garcia de Orta (1501–1568) — revealed herbal medicines of India, described Cholera
• 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 (born 1923) — studied Kuru, Nobel prize winner
• Henry Gray (1827–1861) — English anatomist and surgeon, creator of Gray's Anatomy
• George E. Goodfellow (1855–1910) — recognized as first U.S. civilian trauma surgeon, expert in gunshot wound treatment
• William Harvey (1578–1657) — English physician, described the circulatory system
• Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) — physician and anatomist
• Henry Heimlich (born 1920) — 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
• John Hunter (1728–1793) — Father of modern surgery, famous for his study of Anatomy
• Hippocrates (c. 460–370 BCE) — Greek father of medicine
• Elliott P. Joslin (1869–1962) — pioneer in the treatment of diabetes
• Edward Jenner (1749–1823) — English physician popularized vaccination
• Carl Jung (1875–1961) — Swiss psychiatrist
• Leo Kanner (1894–1981) — Austrian-American psychiatrist known for work on autism
• Seymour Kety (1915–2000) — influential American neuroscientist
• Robert Koch (1843–1910) — formulated Koch's postulates
• Theodor Kocher — thyroid surgery and 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) — a 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
• Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884–1951) — studied muscle metabolism Nobel prize
• George Richards Minot (1885–1950) — Nobel prize for his study of anemia
• Barry Marshall
• 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.
• Frederic E. Mohs (1910–2002) — responsible for the method of surgery now called Mohs surgery
• Richard Morton (1637–1698) — identified tubercles in consumption (phthisis) of lungs; basis for modern name tuberculosis
• Egas Moniz (1874–1955) — developed Lobotomy and brain artery angiography.
• William McBride — discovered teratogenicity of thalidomide
• Herbert Needleman — 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
• Gary Onik — inventor and pioneer of ultrasound guided cryosurgery for both the prostate and the liver
• William Osler (1849–1919) — called the "father of modern medicine"
• Ralph Paffenbarger — conducted classic studies demonstrating conclusively that active people reduce their risk of heart disease and live longer
• George Papanicolaou Greek: (1883 – 1962) - pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the "Pap smear".
• Paracelsus (1493–1541)
• 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) — renowned Australian public health administrator
• Rhazes (c. 854 – 925) (Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi)
• Juan Rosai (born 1940) - advanced surgical pathology and 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
• Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865) — a pioneer of avoiding cross-infection — introduced hand washing and instrument cleaning
• Victor Skumin (born 1948) — the first to describe a previously unknown disease. Now it is called Skumin syndrome^[1] (a disorder of the central nervous system of some patients after a prosthetic heart valve)^[2]
• John Snow (1813–1858) — anaesthetist and pioneer epidemiologist who studied cholera
• Thomas Starzl - Performed first liver transplantation
• 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 (born 1920) — 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.
• Allen Oldfather Whipple (1881–1963) — devised the Whipple procedure in 1935 for treatment of pancreatic cancer
• Priscilla White — developed classification of diabetes mellitus and pregnancy to assess and reduce the risk of miscarriage, birth defect, stillbirth, and maternal death
• Carl Wood — 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)

Physicians famous chiefly as eponyms

See also Medical eponyms

Among the better known eponyms:

• 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) — Barlow's syndrome
• Albert Calmette (1863–1933)- Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for tuberculosis
• Carlos Chagas (1879–1934) - Chagas disease
• Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893) - 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
• Camillo Golgi (1843–1926) - Golgi apparatus
• Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814) - Guillotine
• 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 (1829–1914) - Mitchell's disease
• James Paget (1814–1899) - Paget's disease
• James Parkinson (1755–1824) - Parkinson's syndrome
• Juan Rosai (born 1940) - Rosai–Dorfman disease
• Max Wilms (1867-1918) - Wilms' tumor
• Karl Adolph von Basedow - Basedow disease
• Paul Broca - Broca's area
• David Bruce - Brucellosis
• Denis Parsons Burkitt - Burkitt lymphoma
• Harvey Cushing - Cushing's disease
• John Langdon Down - Down syndrome
• Bartolomeo Eustachi - Eustachian tube
• Gabriele Falloppio - Fallopian tube
• Ernst Gräfenberg - Gräfenberg spot (G-spot)
• Gerhard Armauer Hansen - Hansen's disease
• Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson - Wilson's disease
• Thomas Hodgkin - Hodgkin's disease
• George Huntington - Huntington's disease
• Moritz Kaposi - Kaposi sarcoma
• Daniel Elmer Salmon - Salmonella
• Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette - Tourette syndrome
• Gunnar B. Stickler - Stickler syndrome
• Hulusi Behçet - Behçet's disease

Physicians famous as criminals

• John Bodkin Adams - British general practitioner, and 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 (1904–1948) - Nazi human experimentation
• Edme Castaing - murderer
• George Chapman - Polish poisoner and Jack the Ripper suspect
• Robert George Clements - murderer
• 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
• Radovan Karadžić (born 1945) - accused of ethnic cleansing 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
• Arnfinn Nesset - Norwegian serial killer
• 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

Among the better known writers:

• 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
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) - British author of Sherlock Holmes fame
• Anthony Daniels (1949– ) - As 'Theodore Dalrymple' and under his own name, a British author, critic and social and cultural commentator
• Steven Hacker - American medical writer
• Khaled Hosseini (1965-) - American author, originally from Afghanistan, of hugely popular 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
• Mori Ōgai - Japanese novelist, poet, and literary critic
• Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) - French playwright, discovered sign of syphilitic aortitis
• 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:

• John Arbuthnot - author
• Patrick Abercromby (1656 – c. 1716) - historian
• Chris Adrian author
• Jacob Appel - short story writer
• Janet Asimov - (born 1926) (née Janet O. Jeppson). American psychiatrist, wife of Isaac Asimov.
• Arnie Baker - cycling coach
• 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
• 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
• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman - Indian author and translator of classical manuscripts
• William Gilbert - British author and father of W. S. Gilbert
• Oliver Goldsmith - British author
• Atul Gawande, surgeon and New Yorker medical writer.
• Richard Hooker author of M*A*S*H
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894) - American essayist
• Arthur Johnston (1587–1641) - poet
• Charles Krauthammer (1950- ) - 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.
• Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793) - French writer, a leader of French Revolution, assassinated in bathtub
• Paolo Mantegazza (1831–1910) - Italian writer, wrote a science fiction book, L'Anno 3000
• Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) - American writer
• Mungo Park- Scottish physician and explorer
• João Guimarães Rosa - Brazilian writer
• Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932) - British writer and poet, discovered the malarial parasite
• Theodore Isaac Rubin (born 1923). American author of David and Lisa
• Oliver Sacks (born 1933). British essayist (e.g. 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
• Abdul Qayyum Rana (born 1968) - Canadian Neurologist, wrote several books on Parkinson's disease and Neurology. Author of 50 ways Parkinson's could affect you
• 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. Considered 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
• Francis Brett Young (1884–1954) - English novelist and poet
• José Rizal (1861–1896) - Filipino novelist, scientist, linguist, and National Hero

Physicians famous as politicians

• Ibrahim al-Jaafari - Prime minister of Iraq
• Ayad Allawi - interim Prime Minister of Iraq
• Salvador Allende (1908–1973) - Chilean president
• Emilio Álvarez Montalván - Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
• Arnulfo Arias - Panaman President
• 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 and Director-General of the World Health Organization
• Margaret Chan - Director General of the WHO and 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
• 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
• Radovan Karadžić - (born 1945) - 1st President of Republika Srpska, now facing charges for genocide and crimes against humanity
• Mohammad-Reza Khatami - Iranian politician
• Juscelino Kubitscheck - Brazilian president
• Mahathir bin Mohamad - Malaysian prime minister
• Agostinho Neto (1922–1979) - MPLA leader and president of Angola
• Navin Ramgoolam - Prime minister of Mauritius
• José Rizal (1861–1896) - Filipino revolutionary and national hero
• Bidhan Chandra Roy - Indian politician
• Hélio de Oliveira Santos - Brazilian politician, mayor of Campinas
• Tabaré Vázquez - Former Uruguayan President
• Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) - Founder of the Republic of China
• Ali Akbar Velayati (born 1945) - Iranian Foreign Minister from 1981 to 1997
• William Walker (1824–1860) - ruler of Nicaragua
• Yeoh Eng-kiong - former Secretary for Health and Welfare of Hong Kong
• Ram Baran Yadav (2008-Till Date)- First elected president of republic Nepal
• Ewa Kopacz (2014 - Till Date) - Polish Prime Minister that succeeded Donald Tusk
• Bashar Al-Assad - Syrian national leader

Argentina

• Arturo Umberto Illia - 35th President of Argentina (October 12, 1963 – June 28, 1966)

Azerbaijan

First Azerbaijani physicians:

• Karim bey Mehmandarov
• Mirza Mukhtar bey Aliyev
• Hadjibaba bey Aliyev

Australia

• Bob Brown - parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens
• Peter Macdonald
• Brendan Nelson - Australian politician
• Sir Earle Page - Prime Minister of Australia
• Andrew Refshauge - Australian politician
• Mal Washer
• Michael Wooldridge
• Andrew Laming - Australian politician

Canada

• Carolyn Bennett
• Frederick William Borden - Canadian MP and minister of the Militia
• Bernard-Augustin Conroy
• John Waterhouse Daniel
• Hedy Fry (born 1941) - Canadian politician, member of parliament
• Dennis Furlong
• Stanley K. Bernstein
• Charles Godfrey
• Grant Hill - former Canadian MP
• Wilbert Keon - Canadian senator
• 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

Japan

• Tomoko Abe - 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

The Netherlands

• Frederik van Eeden
• J. Slauerhoff
• Simon Vestdijk
• Leo Vroman

United Kingdom

• John Pope Hennessy - former Governor of Hong Kong
• David Owen - British politician
• Liam Fox - British Secretary of State for Defence

United States

• Stewart Barlow - member of the Utah House of Representatives
• Larry Bucshon (born 1962) - U.S. Congressman from Indiana
• Michael C. Burgess (born 1950) - U.S. Congressman from Texas
• Tom Coburn (born 1948) - 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
• Joe Heck (born 1961) - U.S. Congressman
• Steve Henry (born 1953) - Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
• Bill Frist (born 1952) - United States Senate Majority Leader
• Jim McDermott - U.S. Congressman
• Larry McDonald - U.S. Congressman
• Ralph Northam (born 1959) - Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
• Christopher Ottiano (born 1969) - member of the Rhode Island Senate
• Ron Paul (born 1935) - U.S. Congressman
• Rand Paul (born January 7, 1963) U.S. Senator
• David Watkins- member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
• Dave Weldon - US 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
• Tim Brabants — sprint kayaker, Olympic gold medalist
• Gail Hopkins — American professional baseball player
• Randy Gregg — Ice hockey player
• Felipe Contepomi — Argentine rugby union footballer
• David Gerrard — New Zealand swimmer
• Jack Lovelock (1910–1949) — Olympic athlete
• Stephen Rerych — American swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder
• Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira — Successful Brazilian soccerplayer, playing for the national team from 1979-1986
• Dot Richardson - American softball player, Olympics, orthopedic physician
• Sir Roger Bannister - First man to break the sub 4 minute mile, English Neurologist
• K. Hari Prasad - Indian Ranji Trophy Cricket Player, CEO-Central Region, Apollo Hospitals

Physicians famous for their role in television and the media

Australia

• Jeremy Cumpston
• Jonathan LaPaglia
• Peter Larkins
• Andrew Rochford
• Rob Sitch

Brazil

• Lúcia Petterle

Ireland

• Ronan Tynan

Malta

• Gianluca Bezzina

Norway

• Anders Danielsen Lie

South Africa

• Phil du Plessis

Spain

• El Gran Wyoming

Sweden

• Staffan Hallerstam

United Kingdom

• Christian Jessen
• Sunshine Martyn
• Pixie McKenna
• Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller
• Darwin Shaw
• Hank Wangford
• Harry Hill

United States

• Richard N. Ash
• Andrew Baldwin
• Jessica Carlson
• Lyn Christie
• Deidre Downs
• Garth Fisher
• Leo Galland
• Anthony C. Griffin
• Sanjay Gupta
• Randal Haworth
• Matt Iseman
• Sean Kenniff
• Will Kirby
• John S. Marr
• Lucky Meisenheimer
• Gary Motykie
• Andrew P. Ordon
• Mehmet Oz
• Bernard Punsly
• Brent Ridge
• Travis Stork
• Ken Jeong

Physicians famous for other activities

• Abd-el-latif — traveller
• Prathap C. Reddy
• K. Hari Prasad
• Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana
• Anderson Ruffin Abbott
• Jane Addams — social activist
• Aman Adel Barghouthi — mineralologist
• David Alter — inventor
• Oswald Avery (1877–1955) — molecular biologist who discovered DNA carried genetic information
• Ali Bacher — cricketer
• Roger Bannister; runner, first sub 4 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
• Oscar Biscet — human rights advocate
• Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867–1939) — nutritionist
• Herman Boerhaave — humanist
• Alexander Borodin — composer, chemist
• Thomas Bowdler — censor
• Lafayette Bunnell — explorer of Yosemite Valley
• 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 — Prominent African American Neurosurgeon
• John Caius (1510–1573) — physician and educator
• Laurel B. Clark (1961–2003) — American Astronaut, killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) — Mathematician and astronomer
• Merv Cross
• Sextus Empiricus (2nd–3rd century C.E.) — philosopher
• Ken Evoy
• 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
• Syed Ziaur Rahman — physician and medical scientist
• W. G. Grace — cricketer
• Daniel Harris
• John Franklin Gray (1804–1881) was an American educator and the first practitioner of homoeopathy in the United States.
• Nehemiah Grew — botanist
• Samuel Hahnemann — founder of homeopathy
• Armand Hammer — entrepreneur
• Karin M. Hehenberger — diabetes expert
• Harry Hill — British comedian
• Samuel Gridley Howe — abolitionist
• Hermann von Helmholtz — physicist
• Jan Baptist van Helmont (1577–1655) — physiologist
• Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt (1810-1889), President of the Connecticut State Medical Society, director of the Retreat for the Insane
• Mae Jemison (born 1956) — astronaut
• David Johnson — American swimmer
• Stuart Kauffman (born 1939) — biologist
• John Keats poet and author
• John Harvey Kellogg — cereal manufacture
• Charles Krauthammer (born 1950) — columnist and political commentator
• Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909) — based his system of criminology on physiognomy
• John McAndrew (born 1927) — All-Ireland Gaelic Footballer
• Pat McGeer — Canadian basketball player
• June McCarroll — inventor of lane markings
• 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 — 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
• James Parkinson — physician, geologist, political activist
• Christian Hendrik Persoon — South African botanist
• Claude Perrault — architect
• Scott Powell — co-founder of the nostalgia group Sha Na Na
• Weston A. Price — traveler, educator
• Pope John XXI — pope
• John Ray — plant taxonomer
• 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
• Doreen Rosenstrauch — artist, athlete, humanist, scientist
• 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
• Félix Savart — physicist
• Albert Schweitzer — humanist
• Michael Servetus (1511–1553) — burnt at the stake by Calvinists for heresy
• Paul Sinha — British comedian
• Rob Sitch — Australian comedian
• Sócrates (born 1954, 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
• Moshe Wallach (1866-1957), founder and director of Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem, for 45 years
• William Walker — Latin American adventurer
• Andrew Wakefield — conducted studies on disputed link between vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders, which had many serious consequences
• John Clarence Webster — Canadian historian
• Wilhelm Weinberg — with G.H. Hardy, developed the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium model of population genetics
• Mansoor Elahi Geriatrician, medical researcher and writer on interaction of medical ethics, law and religion from Pakistan .
• JPR Williams — rugby union player
• Hugh Williamson — American patriot, statesman, Surgeon General of SC
• Thomas Young — scientist
• Ayman al-Zawahiri — Al-Qaeda leader

See also

• List of fictional physicians
• List of psychiatrists
• Famous figures in psychiatry
• Fictional psychiatrists
• List of Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians
• List of Chinese physicians
• List of Iraqi physicians
• List of Russian physicians and psychologists
• List of Slovenian physicians
• List of Turkish physicians

References

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