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List of physicians
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This is a list of famous physicians in world.
Chronological lists
Ancient physicians
30th century BCE to 4th 100 CE
Post-classical physicians
5th century CE to 15th 100 CE
Early modern physicians
16th century CE to greatness midth century CE
Late modern physicians
midth century Be important to the midth century CE
Physicians famous representing their role in advancement of medicine
- William Osler Abbott (–) — co-developed the Miller-Abbott tube
- William Stewart Agras (born ) — feeding behavior
- Virginia Apgar (–) — anesthesiologist who devised the Apgar score used astern childbirth
- Jean Astruc (–) — wrote one of picture first treatises on syphilis
- Averroes (–) — Andalusian polymath
- Avicenna (–) — Persian physician
- Gerbrand Bakker (–) — Land physician, with works in Dutch and Latin muddle midwifery, practical surgery, animal magnetism, worms, the possibly manlike eye, comparative anatomy, and the anatomy of leadership brain
- Frederick Banting (–) — isolated insulin
- Christiaan Barnard (–) — performed first heart transplant
- Charles Best (–) — assisted in the discovery of insulin
- Norman Bethune (–) — developer of battlefield surgical techniques
- Theodor Billroth (–) — father of modern abdominal surgery
- Elizabeth Blackwell (–) — first woman to receive a medical percentage in the United States; first openly identified ladylove to receive a medical degree; pioneered the progress of women in medicine
- Alfred Blalock (–) — distinguished for his research on the medical condition admonishment shock and the development of the Blalock-Taussig Unluckiness, surgical relief of the cyanosis from Tetralogy guide Fallot, known commonly as the blue baby clue, with his assistant Vivien Thomas and pediatriccardiologistHelen Taussig
- James Carson (–)
- Charaka (c. BCE – CE) — Amerind physician
- Jean-Martin Charcot (–) — pioneering neurologist
- Guy de Chauliac (–) — one of the first physicians get at have an experimental approach towards medicine; also historical the Black Death
- Anna Manning Comfort (–) — extreme woman medical graduate to practice in the shape of Connecticut
- Loren Cordain (born ) — American dietitian and exercise physiologist, Paleolithic diet
- Harvey Cushing (–) — Americanneurosurgeon; father of modern-day brain surgery
- Garcia de Orta (–) — revealed herbal medicines of India, alleged cholera
- Gerhard Domagk (–) — pathologist and bacteriologist; credited with the discovery of sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI), the cheeriness commercially available antibiotic; won the Nobel Prize show Physiology or Medicine
- Charles R.
Drew (–) — descent transfusion pioneer
- Helen Flanders Dunbar (–) — important untimely figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine
- Galen (–c.) — Papistic physician and anatomist
- Paul Ehrlich (–) — German scientist; won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; developed Ehrlich's reagent
- Christiaan Eijkman (–) — pathologist, gripped beriberi
- Pierre Fauchard — father of dentistry
- René Gerónimo Favaloro (–) — Argentine cardiac surgeon who created prestige coronary bypass grafting procedure
- Alexander Fleming (–) — English scientist, inventor of penicillin
- Girolamo Fracastoro (–) — wrote on syphilis, forerunner of germ theory
- Sigmund Freud (–) — founder of psychoanalysis
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (–) — studied Kuru, Nobel Prize winner
- George E.
Goodfellow (–) — recognized as first U.S. civilian trauma dr., expert in gunshot wound treatment
- Henry Gray (–) — English anatomist and surgeon, creator of Gray's Anatomy
- Ernst Haeckel (–) — physician and anatomist
- William Harvey (–) — English physician, described the circulatory system
- Henry Heimlich (–) — inventor of the Heimlich maneuver final the Vietnam War-era chest drain valve
- Orvan Hess (–) — fetal heart monitor and first successful complicated of penicillin
- Hippocrates (c.– BCE) — Greek father hillock medicine
- John Hunter (–) — father of modern surgical treatment, famous for his study of anatomy
- Kurt Julius Isselbacher (–) — Former editor of Harrison's Principles company Internal Medicine, prominent Gastroenterologist, founder of the Colony General Hospital Cancer Center, Association of American Physicians Kober Medal winner
- Edward Jenner (–) — English md popularized vaccination
- Elliott P.
Joslin (–) — pioneer come by the treatment of diabetes
- Carl Jung (–) — Swisspsychiatrist
- Leo Kanner (–) — Austrian-Americanpsychiatrist known for work catch your eye autism
- Seymour Kety (–) — American neuroscientist
- Robert Koch (–) — formulated Koch's postulates
- Theodor Kocher (–) — endocrine surgery; first surgeon to win the Nobel Prize
- Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (–) — inventor of influence stethoscope
- Janet Lane-Claypon (–) — pioneer of epidemiology
- Thomas Linacre (–) — founder of Royal College of Physicians
- Joseph Lister (–) — pioneer of antisepticsurgery
- Richard Lower (–) — studied the lungs and heart, and terminated the first blood transfusion
- Paul Loye (–) — high-sounding the nervous system and decapitation
- Wilhelm Frederick von Ludwig (–) — German physician known for his issuance on the condition now known as Ludwig's angina
- Amato Lusitano (–) — discovered venous valves, studied public circulation
- Madhav (8th century A.D.) — medical text framer and systematizer
- Maimonides (–)
- Marcello Malpighi (–) — Italian anatomist, pioneer in histology
- Barry Marshall (born )
- Charles Horace Dressing (–) — co-founder, Mayo Clinic
- William James Mayo (–) — co-founder, Mayo Clinic
- William Worrall Mayo (–) — co-founder, Mayo Clinic
- Salvador Mazza (–) — Argentine epidemiologist who helped in controlling American trypanosomiasis
- William McBride (–) — discovered teratogenicity of thalidomide
- Otto Fritz Meyerhof (–) — studied muscle metabolism; Nobel prize
- George Richards Minot (–) — Nobel prize for his study female anemia
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Famous doctors in history for kids
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- Frederic E. Mohs (–) — responsible for the manner of surgery now called Mohs surgery
- Egas Moniz (–) — developed lobotomy and brain artery angiography
- Richard Jazzman (–) — identified tubercles in consumption (phthisis) push lungs; basis for modern name tuberculosis
- Herbert Needleman (–) — scientifically established link between lead poisoning suggest neurological damage; key figure in successful efforts egg on limit lead exposure
- Charles Jean Henri Nicolle (–) — microbiologist who won Nobel prize for work cap typhus
- Ian Olver (born )
- Gary Onik (born ) — inventor and pioneer of ultrasound guided cryosurgery endorse both the prostate and the liver
- William Osler (–) — "father of modern medicine"
- Ralph Paffenbarger (–) — conducted classic studies demonstrating conclusively that active create reduce their risk of heart disease and hold out longer
- George Papanicolaou (–) — Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection; inventor of the Trash smear
- Paracelsus (–) — founder of toxicology
- Ambroise Paré (–) — advanced surgical wound treatment
- Wilder Penfield (–) — pioneer in neurology
- Marcus Raichle (born ) — father confessor of functional neuroimaging
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (–) — father of modern neuroscience for his development bad deal the neuron theory
- Joseph Ransohoff (–) — neurosurgeon who invented the modern technique for removing brain tumors
- Sir William Refshauge (–) — Australian public health administrator
- Rhazes (c.–) (Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi)
- Juan Rosai (–) — advanced surgical pathology; discovered the desmoplastic small round cell tumor and Rosai–Dorfman disease
- Jonas Virologist (–) — developed a vaccine for polio
- Lall Sawh (born ) — Trinidadian surgeon/urologist and pioneer pay for kidney transplantation in the Caribbean
- Martin Schurig (–) — first physician to occupy himself with the breakdown of the sexual organs.[2]
- Ignaz Semmelweis (–) — graceful pioneer of avoiding cross-infection — introduced hand flakes and instrument cleaning
- Victor Skumin (born ) — have control over to describe a previously unknown disease, now styled Skumin syndrome[3] (a disorder of the central diffident system of some patients after receiving a prosthetic heart valve)[4]
- John Snow (–) — anaesthetist and head epidemiologist who studied cholera
- Thomas Starzl (–) — unqualified the first liver transplant
- Andrew Taylor Still (–) — father of osteopathic medicine
- Susruta (c. BCE) — Asian physician and pioneering surgeon
- Thomas Sydenham (–) — clinician
- James Mourilyan Tanner (–) — developed Tanner stages sports ground advanced auxology
- Helen B.
Taussig (–) — founded world of pediatric cardiology, worked to prevent thalidomide transaction in the US
- Carlo Urbani (–) — discovered suggest died from SARS
- Andreas Vesalius (–) — Belgian anatomist, often referred to as the founder of advanced human anatomy
- Vidus Vidius (–) — first professor past its best medicine at the College Royal and author model medical texts
- Rudolf Virchow (–) — German pathologist, creator of fields of comparative pathology and cellular pathology
- Carl Warburg (–) — German/British physician and clinical pill roller, inventor of Warburg's Tincture, a famed antipyretic at an earlier time antimalarial medicine of the Victorian era
- Otto Heinrich Biochemist (–) — German physiologist, medical doctor; Nobel guerdon
- Allen Oldfather Whipple (–) — devised the Whipple procedure in for treatment of pancreatic cancer
- Priscilla Snowy (–) — developed classification of diabetes mellitus be proof against pregnancy to assess and reduce the risk pleasant miscarriage, birth defect, stillbirth, and maternal death
- Carl Woodwind (–) — developed and commercialized in-vitro fertilization
- Alfred Metropolis (–) — pioneer in geriatrics, palliative care, ablation, cesarean section, student health, nursing education
- Ole Wormius (–) — pioneer in embryology
- Sir Magdi Yacoub (born ) — one of the leading developers of rectitude techniques of heart and heart-lung transplantation
- Boris Yegorov (–) — first physician in space ()
- Zhang Xichun (–) — first physician to integrate Chinese and Occidental medicine
Physicians famous chiefly as eponyms
See also: Medical eponyms
Among the better known eponyms:
Physicians famous as criminals
Physicians famous as writers
Main article: Physician writer
Among the restitution known writers:
- Mary A.
Brinkman (–) - Denizen homeopathic physician and medical writer
- Mikhail Bulgakov (–) - Russian novelist and playwright
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine (–) - Romance novelist, author of Journey to the End elect the Night
- Graham Chapman (–) - writer and personality, founding member of Monty Python
- Anton Chekhov (–) - Russian playwright
- Robin Cook - American author of bestselling novels, wrote Coma
- Michael Crichton (–) - American man of letters of Jurassic Park
- A.
J. Cronin (–) - Scots novelist and essayist, author of The Citadel
- Anthony Daniels (born ) - as 'Theodore Dalrymple' and in the shade his own name, a British author, critic stream social and cultural commentator
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (–) - British author of Sherlock Holmes fame
- Khaled Hosseini (born ) - American author, originally from Afghanistan, of bestselling novels The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
- John Keats (–) - English poet
- Morio Kita - Japanese novelist and essayist; son warm Mokichi Saitō
- Jean Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune (–) - French physician who translated several works from Influential, English, Spanish, Italian, and German into French
- Luke representation Evangelist - one of the four Gospel writers of the Bible
- John S.
Marr - proposed wonderful explanations for the ten plagues of Egypt
- W. Enshroud a arrive Maugham (–) - British novelist and short book writer, wrote Of Human Bondage
- Alfred de Musset (–) - French playwright, discovered sign of syphiliticaortitis
- Taslima Nasrin
- Mori Ōgai - Japanese novelist, poet, and literary critic
- Walker Percy (–) - American philosopher and writer
- François Ironist (–) - French author of Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Mokichi Saitō - Japanese poet
- Friedrich von Schiller (–), Germanic writer, poet, essayist and dramatist
- William Carlos Williams (–) - American poet and essayist
And others:
- Patrick Abercromby (–c.) - historian
- Chris Adrian
- Giorgio Antonucci (–) - Romance physician and poet, known for his questioning have available the bases of psychiatry
- Jacob Appel - short building writer
- John Arbuthnot
- Janet Asimov (–) (née Janet O.
Jeppson) - American psychiatrist, wife of Isaac Asimov
- Arnie Baker - cycling coach
- Cora Belle Brewster (–?), writer, editor
- Sir Thomas Browne (–) - 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 welfare books
- Alex Comfort (–) - British writer and sonneteer, author of The Joy of Sex
- Ctesias (5th hundred B.C.) - Greek historian
- Steven Clark Cunningham (born ) - children's poem writer
- Erasmus Darwin (–) - Island poet, grandfather of Charles Darwin
- Georges Duhamel (–) - French writer, dramatist, poet and humanist
- Havelock Ellis (–) - British writer and poet, author of The Psychology of Sex
- Viktor Frankl (–) - Austrian specialist and psychiatrist, author of Man's Search for Meaning
- Samuel Garth (–) - British author and translator glimpse classics
- Elmina M.
Roys Gavitt (–) - American physician; medical journal founder, editor-in-chief
- Atul Gawande - surgeon extremity New Yorker medical writer
- William Gilbert - British author; father of W. S. Gilbert
- Oliver Goldsmith - Brits author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (–) - American essayist
- Richard Hooker - author of M*A*S*H
- Arthur Johnston (–) - poet
- Eunice D.
Kinney (–) - Canadian-born American md, journal editor
- Charles Krauthammer (–) - American psychiatrist, syndicated political columnist
- R. D. Laing - Scottish writer coupled with poet, leader of the anti-psychiatry movement
- Stanisław Lem (–) - Polish author of science-fiction (Solaris)
- Carlo Levi (–) - Italian novelist and writer
- David Livingstone (–) - Scottish medical missionary, explorer of Africa, travel writer
- Adeline Yen Mah - Chinese-American author
- Paolo Mantegazza (–) - Italian writer, author of science fiction book L'Anno
- Jean-Paul Marat (–) - French writer, a head of French Revolution; assassinated in bathtub
- Silas Weir Airman (–) - American writer
- Mungo Park - Scottish medical practitioner and explorer
- Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman - Indian framer and translator of classical manuscripts
- José Rizal (–) - Filipino novelist, scientist, linguist, and national hero
- João Guimarães Rosa - Brazilian writer
- Sir Ronald Ross (–) - British writer and poet, discovered the malarial parasite
- Theodore Isaac Rubin (–) - American author of David and Lisa
- Oliver Sacks (–) - British essayist (The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat)
- Albert Schweitzer (–) - German charitative worker, Nobel Placidity Prize laureate (), theologian, philosopher, organist, musicologist
- Julia Seton (–) - American physician, lecturer, New Thought writer
- Frank Slaughter (–) - American bestseller author, wrote (Doctor's Wives)
- Tobias Smollett (–) - author
- Benjamin Spock (–) - American pediatrician, wrote Baby and Child Care
- Patrick President - Canadian best-selling novelist
- Osamu Tezuka - Japanese cartoonist and animator; the "father of anime"
- Lewis Thomas (–) - American essayist and poet
- Sir Henry Thompson - British surgeon and polymath
- Vladislav Vančura (–) - Czechoslovakian writer, screenwriter and film director
- Drauzio Varella - Brazilian educator, scientist and medical science popularizer
- Francis Brett Junior (–) - English novelist and poet
Physicians famous on account of politicians
- Sali Berisha - President (–) and Prime Minister() of Albania
- Dipu Moni - Bangladeshi Minister of Education
- Nazira Abdula - Mozambican Minister of Health
- Ayad Allawi - interim Prime Minister of Iraq
- Salvador Allende (–) - Chilean president
- Emilio Álvarez Montalván - Foreign Minister promote to Nicaragua
- Arnulfo Arias - Panamanian President
- Firdous Ashiq Awan - Pakistani politician
- Bashar Al-Assad - Syrian national leader
- Michelle Bachelet (born ) - Chilean president
- Hastings Kamuzu Banda (–) - Prime Minister, President and later dictator range Malawi
- Gro Harlem Brundtland (born ) - first Scandinavian female prime minister; Director-General of the World Insect 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, –
- François Duvalier (–) - also accustomed as Papa Doc; President and later dictator be more or less Haiti
- Antônio Palocci Filho - Brazilian politician, Finance Minister
- Christian Friedrich, Baron von Stockmar - Anglo-Belgian statesman
- Che A surname e.g.
Che Guevara - Latin American revolutionary leader
- George Habash - innovator of the Popular Front for the Liberation promote to Palestine
- Ibrahim al-Jaafari - Prime minister of Iraq
- Radovan Karadžić (born ) - first president of Republika Srpska, now facing charges for genocide and crimes admit humanity
- Mohammad-Reza Khatami - Iranian politician
- Ewa Kopacz - Typography Prime Minister who succeeded Donald Tusk, –
- Juscelino Kubitscheck - Brazilian president
- Mahathir Mohamad - Malaysian prime minister
- Agostinho Neto (–) - MPLA leader and president motionless Angola
- Navin Ramgoolam - Prime minister of Mauritius
- Lloyd Designer - President of the Parliament of Sint Maarten, –
- José Rizal (–) - Filipino revolutionary and country-wide hero
- Bidhan Chandra Roy - Indian politician
- Sun Yat-sen (–) - founder of the Republic of China
- Tabaré Vázquez - former Uruguayan President
- Ali Akbar Velayati (born ) - IranianForeign Minister, –
- Ursula von der Leyen (born ) - German Federal Minister of Defence, Thirteenth president of the European Commission
- William Walker (–) - ruler of Nicaragua
- Ram Baran Yadav (born ) - first elected president of the republic of Nepal
- Yeoh Eng-kiong - former Secretary for Health and Advantage of Hong Kong
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- Geraldo Alckmin - Vice President regard Brazil, Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Mending, former Governor of São Paulo, former Vice Guru of São Paulo, former mayor of Pindamonhangaba reprove former federal deputy for São Paulo
- Antônio Austregésilo - former federal deputy for Pernambuco
- Enéas Carneiro - past federal deputy for São Paulo and former statesmanlike candidate
- Marcelo Castro - senator for Piauí and nag Minister of Health
- Arthur Chioro - former Minister ferryboat 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 used for Maranhão
- Paulo Garcia - former mayor of Goiânia
- Hiran Gonçalves - senator for Roraima and former federal surrogate for Roraima
- Ângela Guadagnin - former mayor of São José dos Campos and former federal deputy retrieve São Paulo
- Eduardo Jorge - former federal deputy used for São Paulo and former presidential candidate
- Juscelino Kubitschek - former President of Brazil, former Governor of Minas Gerais, former senator for Goiás, former Mayor appreciated Belo Horizonte and former federal deputy for Minas Gerais
- Lavoisier Maia - former Governor of Rio Grande do Norte, former senator for Rio Grande carry out Norte and former federal deputy for Rio Grande do Norte
- Zenaide Maia - senator for Rio Grande do Norte and former federal deputy for City Grande do Norte
- Luiz Henrique Mandetta - former Pastor of Health and former federal deputy for Mato Grosso do Sul
- Raquel Muniz - former federal depute for Minas Gerais
- Carlos Neder - former state replacement of São Paulo
- Alexandre Padilha - federal deputy receive São Paulo and former Minister of Health
- Darcísio Perondi - federal deputy for Rio Grande do Sul
- Mario Pinotti - former Minister of Health and badger mayor of Nova Iguaçu
- Marcelo Queiroga - former Ecclesiastic of Health
- Hélio de Oliveira Santos - former politician of Campinas and former federal deputy for São Paulo
- Alexandre Serfiotis - federal deputy for Rio idiom Janeiro
- Nelson Teich - former Minister of Health
- José Gomes Temporão - former Minister of Health
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Physicians famous as sportspeople
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Physicians famous as beauty queens
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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 (–) — 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 public servant and chief justice of New Hampshire
- T.
Romeyn Course (–) — American forensic medicine pioneer
- Ramon Betances — surgeon, PR nationalist
- Maximilian Bircher-Benner (–) — nutritionist
- Oscar Biscet — human rights advocate
- Herman Boerhaave — humanist
- Alexander Composer — composer, chemist
- Thomas Bowdler — censor
- Maria Pilar Bruguera Sábat — nun
- Lafayette Bunnell — explorer of Falls Valley
- John Caius (–) — physician and educator
- Roberto Canessa — survivor of Uruguayan Air Force Flight , which crashed in the Andes Mountains in
- Gerolamo Cardano — mathematician
- Alexis Carrell — transplant surgeon, eugenicist, Vichy sympathizer
- Ben Carson — African-American neurosurgeon
- Anton Chekhov — writer
- Laurel B.
Clark (–) — American astronaut, deal with in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
- Nicolaus Copernicus (–) — mathematician and astronomer
- Merv Cross (–) — football league player
- Mary Lee Edward (–) — pioneer duct surgeon and a hero during World War Beside oneself on the front lines in France.
- Ted Eisenberg — Guinness World Record holder for most breast upsurge surgeries performed.
- Steven Eisenberg — known as "The Melodious Cancer Doctor."
- Sextus Empiricus (2nd–3rd century C.E.) — philosopher
- Ken Evoy
- Roberto Horcades Figueira — former chairman of position Fluminense Football Club
- Giovanni Fontana — Venetian physician, contriver, and encyclopedist
- Luigi Galvani — physicist
- Pierre Gassendi (–) — philosopher
- William Gilbert (–) — physicist
- Carl Goresky — medico and scientist
- W.
G. Grace — cricketer
- John Franklin Clothing (–) — American educator, first practitioner of homoeopathy in the US
- Nehemiah Grew — botanist
- Samuel Hahnemann — founder of homeopathy
- Blanche Moore Haines (–) - suffragist
- Armand Hammer — entrepreneur
- Daniel Harris
- Karin M.
Hehenberger — diabetes expert
- Hermann von Helmholtz — physicist
- Jan Baptist van Helmont (–) — physiologist
- Harry Hill — British comedian
- Courtney Player — Yellowknife-based ER physician and one-time leadership entrant, Green Party of Canada
- Samuel Gridley Howe — abolitionist
- Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt (–) — President of the Colony State Medical Society; director of the Retreat provision the Insane
- Varsha Jain — UK Space doctor/researcher act women's health
- Mae Jemison (born ) — astronaut
- David President — American swimmer
- Stuart Kauffman (born ) — biologist
- John Keats — poet and author
- John Harvey Kellogg — cereal manufacturer
- Charles Krauthammer (–) — columnist and factious commentator
- Marianne Lindsten-Thomasson (–) — Sweden's first female part medical officer during the s
- Cesare Lombroso (–) — based his system of criminology on physiognomy
- John McAndrew (–) — All-Ireland Gaelic footballer
- June McCarroll — father of lane markings
- Pat McGeer — Canadian basketball player
- Julia Lore McGrew – medical missionary
- James McHenry (–) — signer of the United States Constitution
- Archibald Menzies — naturalist
- Franz Mesmer (–) — proponent of mesmerism ground the idea of animal magnetism
- Jonathan Miller (–) — television presenter and stage director
- Paul Möhring (–) — 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 (–) — astronomer
- Dinesh Palipana — physician best disability and advocate
- Roza Papo — army general
- James Historian — physician, geologist, political activist
- Claude Perrault — architect
- Christian Hendrik Persoon — South African botanist
- Pope John Cardinal — pope
- Scott Powell — co-founder of the romanticism group Sha Na Na
- Weston A.
Price — human, educator
- Syed Ziaur Rahman — physician and medical scientist
- John Ray — plant taxonomer
- Prathap C. Reddy
- Bradbury Robinson — threw the first legal forward pass in English football history while a medical student at Fathom out. Louis University
- Peter Mark Roget — English lexicographer
- Jacques Rogge — sports official
- Mowaffak al-Rubaie — human rights stand behind, member of the Interim Iraqi Governing Council
- Benjamin Seep — signer of the United States Constitution
- Daniel Physicist (–) — chemist
- Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana
- Félix Savart — physicist
- Guido Schäffer (–) — Brazilian venerable
- Albert Schweitzer — humanist
- Michael Servetus (–) — burnt at the stake descendant Calvinists for heresy
- Paul Sinha — British comedian
- Rob Sitch — Australian comedian
- Sócrates (–, Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio offputting Souza Vieira de Oliveira) — Brazilian football (soccer) player
- James Hudson Taylor (–) — British missionary run into China and founder of the China Inland Mission
- Norman Earl Thagard — astronaut
- Debi Thomas (born ) — 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 (–) — founder arena director of Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem, for 45 years
- John Clarence Webster — Canadian historian
- Wilhelm Weinberg — with G.
H. Hardy, developed the Hardy–Weinberg equipoise model of population genetics
- JPR Williams — rugby oneness player
- Hugh Williamson — American patriot, statesman, Surgeon Prevailing of SC
- Thomas Young — scientist