| NAME |
OCCUPATION |
SUMMARY |
BORN |
DIED |
|
Wallace Calvin Abbott
|
Doctor |
Founder of Abbott Laboratories |
12-Oct-1857 |
04-Jul-1921 |
DEAD
|
| Patch Adams
|
Doctor |
Gesundheit! Institute |
28-May-1945 |
TBD |
|
| Arthur Agatston
|
Doctor |
The South Beach Diet |
1947 |
TBD |
|
al-Razi
|
Doctor |
Persian alchemist, discovered sulfuric acid |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Alois Alzheimer
|
Doctor |
Alzheimer's Disease |
14-Jun-1864 |
19-Dec-1915 |
DEAD
|
Virginia Apgar
|
Doctor |
Anesthesiologist, Apgar Score |
07-Jun-1909 |
07-Aug-1974 |
DEAD
|
John Arbuthnot
|
Doctor |
Scriblerus Club |
1667 |
27-Feb-1735 |
DEAD
|
Asclepiades
|
Doctor |
Corpuscular theory of medicine |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Hans Asperger
|
Doctor |
Asperger's Syndrome |
18-Feb-1906 |
21-Oct-1980 |
DEAD
|
Robert Atkins
|
Doctor |
Atkins Diet doctor |
17-Oct-1930 |
17-Apr-2003 |
DEAD
|
Alexander T. Augusta
|
Doctor |
First black battlefield surgeon |
08-Mar-1825 |
21-Dec-1890 |
DEAD
|
| Dennis A. Ausiello
|
Doctor |
Massachusetts General Hospital |
1945 |
TBD |
|
John H. Austin
|
Doctor |
Arcadian Management Services |
1944 |
29-May-2009 |
DEAD
|
Avenzoar
|
Doctor |
Prominent Arab physician |
1090 |
1162 |
DEAD
|
Avicenna
|
Doctor |
Canon of Medicine |
? |
1037 |
DEAD
|
Joseph Babinski
|
Doctor |
The Babinski sign |
17-Nov-1857 |
29-Oct-1932 |
DEAD
|
| Dr. Michael Baden
|
Doctor |
Forensic pathologist on HBO's Autopsy |
1934 |
TBD |
|
| Lenox D. Baker, Jr.
|
Doctor |
Mid-Atlantic Cardiothoracic Surgeons |
1942 |
TBD |
|
| John C. Baldwin
|
Doctor |
Health Sciences Center, Texas Tech |
1949 |
TBD |
|
Robert Bárány
|
Doctor |
Studied inner ear, equilibrium system |
22-Apr-1876 |
08-Apr-1936 |
DEAD
|
Christiaan Barnard
|
Doctor |
Performed the first heart transplant |
08-Nov-1922 |
02-Sep-2001 |
DEAD
|
| Neal D. Barnard
|
Doctor |
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine |
? |
TBD |
|
William Bayliss
|
Doctor |
Co-Discovered hormones |
02-May-1860 |
27-Aug-1924 |
DEAD
|
William Beaumont
|
Doctor |
Observed human digestion |
21-Nov-1785 |
25-Apr-1853 |
DEAD
|
Emil von Behring
|
Doctor |
Created diptheria innoculation |
15-Mar-1854 |
31-Mar-1917 |
DEAD
|
Sir Charles Bell
|
Doctor |
New Idea of Anatomy of the Brain |
00-Nov-1774 |
28-Apr-1842 |
DEAD
|
Lorenzo Bellini
|
Doctor |
Discovered kidney's Bellini Ducts |
03-Sep-1643 |
08-Jan-1704 |
DEAD
|
| Regina Benjamin
|
Doctor |
US Surgeon General |
26-Oct-1956 |
TBD |
|
Claude Bernard
|
Doctor |
French physiologist |
12-Jul-1813 |
10-Feb-1878 |
DEAD
|
Marie-François-Xavier Bichat
|
Doctor |
Anatomie générale |
11-Nov-1771 |
22-Jul-1802 |
DEAD
|
Theodor Billroth
|
Doctor |
Viennese surgeon |
26-Apr-1829 |
06-Feb-1894 |
DEAD
|
Elizabeth Blackwell
|
Doctor |
America's first woman doctor |
03-Feb-1821 |
31-May-1910 |
DEAD
|
Alfred Blalock
|
Doctor |
"Blue baby" operation |
05-Apr-1899 |
15-Sep-1964 |
DEAD
|
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
|
Doctor |
De motu animalium |
28-Jan-1608 |
31-Dec-1679 |
DEAD
|
| Peter W. Brown
|
Doctor |
Virginia Surgical Associates |
1942 |
TBD |
|
George Busk
|
Doctor |
British surgeon and zoologist |
12-Aug-1807 |
10-Aug-1886 |
DEAD
|
| William T. Butler
|
Doctor |
Baylor College of Medicine |
1932 |
TBD |
|
John Caius
|
Doctor |
Second founder of Gonville and Caius College |
06-Oct-1510 |
29-Jul-1573 |
DEAD
|
Girolamo Cardano
|
Doctor |
De Subtilitate |
24-Sep-1501 |
21-Sep-1576 |
DEAD
|
| Richard H. Carmona
|
Doctor |
US Surgeon General, 2002-06 |
22-Nov-1949 |
TBD |
|
Alexis Carrel
|
Doctor |
Sutured blood vessels |
28-Jun-1873 |
05-Nov-1944 |
DEAD
|
| Benjamin S. Carson
|
Doctor |
Neurosurgeon |
18-Sep-1951 |
TBD |
|
| Margaret F. C. Chan
|
Doctor |
WHO Director-General Elect |
1947 |
TBD |
|
Jean-Martin Charcot
|
Doctor |
Father of neurology |
29-Nov-1825 |
16-Aug-1893 |
DEAD
|
John Charnley
|
Doctor |
Hip replacement surgery |
29-Aug-1912 |
05-Aug-1982 |
DEAD
|
Brock Chisholm
|
Doctor |
First Director-General of World Health Organization |
18-May-1896 |
04-Feb-1971 |
DEAD
|
Alex Comfort
|
Doctor |
The Joy of Sex |
10-Feb-1920 |
26-Mar-2000 |
DEAD
|
| Denton Cooley
|
Doctor |
Pioneering heart surgeon |
22-Aug-1920 |
TBD |
|
Harvey Cushing
|
Doctor |
Cushing's Syndrome |
08-Apr-1869 |
07-Oct-1939 |
DEAD
|
Michael DeBakey
|
Doctor |
Pioneering heart surgeon |
07-Sep-1908 |
11-Jul-2008 |
DEAD
|
Pierre-Joseph Desault
|
Doctor |
Surgeon at Hôtel Dieu |
06-Feb-1738 |
01-Jun-1795 |
DEAD
|
Alphonse Dochez
|
Doctor |
Scarlet fever, pneumonia, common cold |
21-Apr-1882 |
30-Jun-1964 |
DEAD
|
John Langdon Down
|
Doctor |
Down's syndrome |
18-Nov-1828 |
07-Oct-1896 |
DEAD
|
Charles Drew
|
Doctor |
First to separate blood plasma |
03-Jun-1904 |
01-Apr-1950 |
DEAD
|
| Victor J. Dzau
|
Doctor |
CEO of Duke University Health System |
1946 |
TBD |
|
Paul Ehrlich
|
Doctor |
Father of chemotherapy |
14-Mar-1854 |
20-Aug-1915 |
DEAD
|
Girolamo Fabrici
|
Doctor |
De Venarum Ostiolis |
20-May-1537 |
21-May-1619 |
DEAD
|
Gabriele Falloppio
|
Doctor |
Observationes anatomicae |
1523 |
09-Oct-1562 |
DEAD
|
| Emerson D. Farley, Jr.
|
Doctor |
Retired Physician, Richmond, Virginia |
1938 |
TBD |
|
| Paul Farmer
|
Doctor |
Doctor for the world's poorest |
1959 |
TBD |
|
| Randolph M. Ferlic
|
Doctor |
Thoracic surgeon |
17-Jul-1936 |
TBD |
|
Niels Ryberg Finsen
|
Doctor |
Light therapy for lupus |
15-Dec-1860 |
25-Sep-1904 |
DEAD
|
| Edward Floyd
|
Doctor |
Floyd Medical Associates |
1934 |
TBD |
|
Werner Forssmann
|
Doctor |
Cardiac catheterization |
29-Aug-1904 |
01-Jun-1979 |
DEAD
|
A. Stone Freedberg
|
Doctor |
Found H. Pylori near stomach ulcers |
30-May-1908 |
25-Aug-2009 |
DEAD
|
John Freind
|
Doctor |
The History of Physic |
1675 |
26-Jul-1728 |
DEAD
|
| Michael A. Friedman
|
Doctor |
Oncologist, City of Hope |
1944 |
TBD |
|
Galen
|
Doctor |
The medical authority for over 1000 years |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Franz Joseph Gall
|
Doctor |
Invented phrenology |
09-Mar-1758 |
22-Aug-1828 |
DEAD
|
| Robert C. Gallo
|
Doctor |
Identified first retroviruses in humans |
23-Mar-1937 |
TBD |
|
Luigi Galvani
|
Doctor |
Explored bioelectical phenomena |
09-Sep-1737 |
04-Dec-1798 |
DEAD
|
Silvester Gardiner
|
Doctor |
Colonial American pharmacist |
29-Jun-1708 |
08-Aug-1786 |
DEAD
|
| James R. Gavin III
|
Doctor |
Morehouse School of Medicine |
1945 |
TBD |
|
| Julie Gerberding
|
Doctor |
Director, Centers for Disease Control, 2002-09 |
22-Aug-1955 |
TBD |
|
John H. Gibbon, Jr.
|
Doctor |
Open-heart surgery |
29-Sep-1903 |
05-Feb-1973 |
DEAD
|
| Alan B. Glassberg
|
Doctor |
Oncology Professor, UCSF, 1970-2006 |
1937 |
TBD |
|
| Lee Goldman
|
Doctor |
Goldman Index for cardiac risk |
06-Jan-1948 |
TBD |
|
William C. Gorgas
|
Doctor |
Malaria and yellow fever |
03-Oct-1854 |
03-Jul-1920 |
DEAD
|
Joseph Mortimer Granville
|
Doctor |
Electric vibrator |
1833 |
1900 |
DEAD
|
| Pedro José Greer, Jr.
|
Doctor |
Gastroenterologist, RAND Trustee |
15-Jun-1956 |
TBD |
|
Allvar Gullstrand
|
Doctor |
Ophthalmologist, refraction of light in the eye |
05-Jun-1862 |
28-Jul-1930 |
DEAD
|
Samuel Guthrie
|
Doctor |
Discovered chloroform |
1782 |
19-Oct-1848 |
DEAD
|
| David Hager
|
Doctor |
Gynecologist, conservative activist |
1946 |
TBD |
|
Samuel Hahnemann
|
Doctor |
Founder of homeopathy |
10-Apr-1755 |
02-Jul-1843 |
DEAD
|
John Scott Haldane
|
Doctor |
Breathing regulated by CO2 |
03-May-1860 |
14-Mar-1936 |
DEAD
|
Marshall Hall
|
Doctor |
Theory of reflex action |
18-Feb-1790 |
11-Aug-1857 |
DEAD
|
Albrecht von Haller
|
Doctor |
Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani |
16-Oct-1708 |
12-Dec-1777 |
DEAD
|
William Stewart Halsted
|
Doctor |
Pioneer of sterile surgerical technique |
23-Sep-1852 |
07-Sep-1922 |
DEAD
|
William Harvey
|
Doctor |
Discovered circulation of blood |
01-Apr-1578 |
03-Jun-1657 |
DEAD
|
| Bernadine P. Healy
|
Doctor |
President, American Red Cross, 1999-2001 |
04-Aug-1944 |
TBD |
|
| Henry Heimlich
|
Doctor |
Heimlich maneuver |
03-Feb-1920 |
TBD |
|
| Jane E. Henney
|
Doctor |
FDA Commissioner, 1998-2001 |
1947 |
TBD |
|
| Stuart Heydt
|
Doctor |
CEO of Geisinger Health System, 1991-2000 |
1940 |
TBD |
|
Hippocrates
|
Doctor |
Father of Medicine |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
| David Ho
|
Doctor |
AIDS researcher |
03-Nov-1952 |
TBD |
|
| Steven Hoefflin
|
Doctor |
Michael Jackson's former plastic surgeon |
07-Feb-1946 |
TBD |
|
Doc Holliday
|
Doctor |
Wyatt Earp's reliable friend |
14-Aug-1851 |
08-Nov-1887 |
DEAD
|
John Hunter
|
Doctor |
English pathologist |
13-Feb-1728 |
16-Oct-1793 |
DEAD
|
William Hunter
|
Doctor |
English anatomist and obstetrician |
23-May-1718 |
30-Mar-1783 |
DEAD
|
J. Hughlings Jackson
|
Doctor |
Father of British neurology |
04-Apr-1835 |
07-Oct-1911 |
DEAD
|
| Harry R. Jacobson
|
Doctor |
Vice Chancellor for Health at Vanderbilt |
1947 |
TBD |
|
| Robert Jarvik
|
Doctor |
Co-Inventor, Jarvik-7 artificial heart |
11-May-1946 |
TBD |
|
Edward Jenner
|
Doctor |
Smallpox Vaccination |
17-May-1749 |
26-Jan-1823 |
DEAD
|
| William Norris Jennings
|
Doctor |
Jewish Hospital and St. Mary's Healthcare |
1943 |
TBD |
|
| William N. Kelley
|
Doctor |
Kelley-Seegmiller Syndrome |
23-Jun-1939 |
TBD |
|
John Harvey Kellogg
|
Doctor |
Battle Creek Sanitarium |
26-Feb-1852 |
14-Dec-1943 |
DEAD
|
| Jack Kevorkian
|
Doctor |
Euthanasia enthusiast |
26-May-1928 |
TBD |
|
| Harvey Klein
|
Doctor |
Cornell University Medical College |
1937 |
TBD |
|
Charles Knowlton
|
Doctor |
Early advocate of birth control |
10-May-1800 |
20-Feb-1850 |
DEAD
|
Robert Koch
|
Doctor |
Germ theory of disease |
11-Dec-1843 |
27-May-1910 |
DEAD
|
Theodor Kocher
|
Doctor |
Thyroid surgeon |
25-Aug-1841 |
27-Jul-1917 |
DEAD
|
René Laënnec
|
Doctor |
Stethoscope |
17-Feb-1781 |
13-Aug-1826 |
DEAD
|
Alphonse Laveran
|
Doctor |
Found the parasite that causes malaria |
18-Jun-1845 |
18-May-1922 |
DEAD
|
| Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
|
Doctor |
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
1954 |
TBD |
|
Thomas Linacre
|
Doctor |
Established the Royal Academy of Physicians |
1460 |
20-Oct-1524 |
DEAD
|
Joseph Lister
|
Doctor |
Pioneer of antiseptic surgery |
05-Apr-1827 |
10-Feb-1912 |
DEAD
|
Jacques Loeb
|
Doctor |
Investigator of artificial parthenogenesis |
07-Apr-1859 |
11-Feb-1924 |
DEAD
|
| Floyd D. Loop
|
Doctor |
Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
1936 |
TBD |
|
| Bernard Lown
|
Doctor |
Inventor of defibrillator, peace activist |
07-Jun-1921 |
TBD |
|
| Roderick MacKinnon
|
Doctor |
Ion channels of cell membranes |
19-Feb-1956 |
TBD |
|
| Adel A. Mahmoud
|
Doctor |
Molecular Biology Professor at Princeton |
1942 |
TBD |
|
Marcello Malpighi
|
Doctor |
Early microscopic anatomist |
10-Mar-1628 |
30-Nov-1694 |
DEAD
|
| Barry J. Marshall
|
Doctor |
H. pylori bacteria causes ulcers |
30-Sep-1951 |
TBD |
|
| Joseph B. Martin
|
Doctor |
Dean, Harvard Medical School, 1997-2007 |
1938 |
TBD |
|
| John E. Maupin, Jr.
|
Doctor |
President, Morehouse School of Medicine |
1946 |
TBD |
|
Charles Horace Mayo
|
Doctor |
Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic |
19-Jul-1865 |
26-May-1939 |
DEAD
|
William James Mayo
|
Doctor |
Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic |
29-Jun-1861 |
28-Jul-1939 |
DEAD
|
Ephraim McDowell
|
Doctor |
Performed the first ovariotomy |
11-Nov-1771 |
25-Jun-1830 |
DEAD
|
Josef Mengele
|
Doctor |
The Angel of Death |
16-Mar-1911 |
07-Feb-1979 |
DEAD
|
Oskar Minkowski
|
Doctor |
Linked pancreas to diabetes |
13-Jan-1858 |
18-Jul-1931 |
DEAD
|
George R. Minot
|
Doctor |
Liver therapy for pernicious anemia |
02-Dec-1885 |
25-Feb-1950 |
DEAD
|
| Henry Morgentaler
|
Doctor |
Abortion rights in Canada |
19-Mar-1923 |
TBD |
|
| Kenneth P. Moritsugu
|
Doctor |
US Surgeon General, 2006-07 |
05-Mar-1945 |
TBD |
|
Samuel Mudd
|
Doctor |
Physician who treated Lincoln's assassin |
20-Dec-1833 |
10-Jan-1883 |
DEAD
|
| Conrad Murray
|
Doctor |
Michael Jackson's personal physician |
19-Feb-1953 |
TBD |
|
| Joseph E. Murray
|
Doctor |
Kidney transplants |
01-Apr-1919 |
TBD |
|
Thomas D. Mutter
|
Doctor |
Surgeon, Mütter Museum benefactor |
09-Mar-1811 |
16-Mar-1859 |
DEAD
|
| Woodrow A. Myers, Jr.
|
Doctor |
EVP at Wellpoint, 2000-05 |
14-Feb-1954 |
TBD |
|
| Thomas T. Noguchi
|
Doctor |
Coroner to the Stars |
04-Jan-1927 |
TBD |
|
| Antonia C. Novello
|
Doctor |
US Surgeon General, 1990-93 |
23-Aug-1944 |
TBD |
|
William Osler
|
Doctor |
Father of psychosomatic medicine |
12-Jul-1849 |
29-Dec-1919 |
DEAD
|
Humphry Osmond
|
Doctor |
LSD proponent, turned on Aldous Huxley |
01-Jul-1917 |
06-Feb-2004 |
DEAD
|
| O'Dell M. Owens
|
Doctor |
Coroner of Hamilton County, Ohio |
1947 |
TBD |
|
| Mehmet Oz
|
Doctor |
Healing from the Heart |
11-Jun-1960 |
TBD |
|
Sir James Paget
|
Doctor |
Father of modern pathology |
11-Jan-1814 |
20-Dec-1899 |
DEAD
|
D. D. Palmer
|
Doctor |
Founder of chiropractic medicine |
07-Mar-1845 |
20-Oct-1913 |
DEAD
|
Ambroise Paré
|
Doctor |
Prominent 16th c. French surgeon |
1510 |
20-Dec-1590 |
DEAD
|
James Parkinson
|
Doctor |
Essay on the Shaking Palsy |
11-Apr-1755 |
21-Dec-1824 |
DEAD
|
Philip Syng Physick
|
Doctor |
Father of American surgery |
07-Jul-1768 |
15-Dec-1837 |
DEAD
|
| Mary Lake Polan
|
Doctor |
OG Professor at Stanford |
1943 |
TBD |
|
| Alvin F. Poussaint
|
Doctor |
Child-rearing expert |
15-May-1934 |
TBD |
|
| Deborah E. Powell
|
Doctor |
Dean of UMN Medical School |
1939 |
TBD |
|
| Franklyn G. Prendergast
|
Doctor |
Mayo Clinic |
07-Mar-1945 |
TBD |
|
Ann Preston
|
Doctor |
Woman's Medical College and Woman's Hospital |
01-Dec-1813 |
18-Apr-1872 |
DEAD
|
Charles B. Purvis
|
Doctor |
Pioneering African-American physician |
14-Apr-1842 |
14-Dec-1929 |
DEAD
|
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
|
Doctor |
Structure of the nervous system |
01-May-1852 |
17-Oct-1934 |
DEAD
|
| Prem Reddy
|
Doctor |
Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. |
1949 |
TBD |
|
Royal Rife
|
Doctor |
Beam Ray Machine destroys cancer |
16-May-1888 |
11-Aug-1971 |
DEAD
|
| Barbara K. Rimer
|
Doctor |
Dean, UNC School of Public Health |
1949 |
TBD |
|
| Frank S. Royal
|
Doctor |
Family practitioner, Richmond |
1939 |
TBD |
|
| Oliver Sacks
|
Doctor |
Awakenings |
09-Jul-1933 |
TBD |
|
Béla Schick
|
Doctor |
Schick test for diphtheria |
16-Jul-1877 |
06-Dec-1967 |
DEAD
|
Ignaz Semmelweis
|
Doctor |
Pioneer of antiseptics |
01-Jul-1818 |
13-Aug-1865 |
DEAD
|
Charles Sherrington
|
Doctor |
Neurons and synapses |
27-Nov-1857 |
04-Mar-1952 |
DEAD
|
Sir Robert Sibbald
|
Doctor |
Scottish physician and antiquary |
15-Apr-1641 |
00-Aug-1722 |
DEAD
|
J. Marion Sims
|
Doctor |
Father of gynecology |
25-Jan-1813 |
13-Nov-1883 |
DEAD
|
| Hugh C. Smith
|
Doctor |
Mayo Clinic Rochester |
1939 |
TBD |
|
| Ralph Snyderman
|
Doctor |
CEO of Duke University Health System |
1940 |
TBD |
|
| Alfred Sommer
|
Doctor |
SPH Dean at Johns Hopkins, 1990-2005 |
1942 |
TBD |
|
Benjamin Spock
|
Doctor |
Baby and Child Care |
02-May-1903 |
15-Mar-1998 |
DEAD
|
| Thomas P. Stossel
|
Doctor |
Professor, Harvard Medical School |
1941 |
TBD |
|
Thomas Sydenham
|
Doctor |
The English Hippocrates |
13-Sep-1624 |
29-Dec-1689 |
DEAD
|
James Syme
|
Doctor |
Leading Scottish surgeon |
07-Nov-1799 |
26-Jun-1870 |
DEAD
|
Helen B. Taussig
|
Doctor |
Mother of pediatric cardiology |
24-May-1898 |
21-May-1986 |
DEAD
|
| Samuel O. Thier
|
Doctor |
CEO of Massachusetts General, 1996-2002 |
23-Jun-1937 |
TBD |
|
Lewis Thomas
|
Doctor |
The Lives of a Cell |
25-Nov-1913 |
03-Dec-1993 |
DEAD
|
| Craig B. Thompson
|
Doctor |
Director of the Abramson Institute |
1952 |
TBD |
|
George Tiller
|
Doctor |
Late-term abortionist |
08-Aug-1941 |
31-May-2009 |
DEAD
|
Georges Gilles de la Tourette
|
Doctor |
Tourette's syndrome |
30-Oct-1857 |
26-May-1904 |
DEAD
|
Andreas Vesalius
|
Doctor |
De Humani Corporis Fabrica |
31-Dec-1514 |
00-Jun-1564 |
DEAD
|
Rudolf Virchow
|
Doctor |
Pathology and progressive politics |
13-Oct-1821 |
05-Sep-1902 |
DEAD
|
Mary Edwards Walker
|
Doctor |
First female US Army surgeon |
26-Nov-1832 |
21-Feb-1919 |
DEAD
|
| J. Robin Warren
|
Doctor |
H. pylori bacteria causes ulcers |
11-Jun-1937 |
TBD |
|
| J. Taylor Wharton
|
Doctor |
Gynecological oncologist |
1938 |
TBD |
|
Johannes Wier
|
Doctor |
First modern physician |
1515 |
24-Feb-1588 |
DEAD
|
Robert Willan
|
Doctor |
Dermatologist, On cutaneous diseases |
12-Nov-1757 |
17-Apr-1812 |
DEAD
|
| Michael B. Wood
|
Doctor |
CEO of the Mayo Foundation, 1999-2003 |
1944 |
TBD |
|
| Mammen Zachariah
|
Doctor |
Cardiologist |
1948 |
TBD |
|
| Zachariah P. Zachariah
|
Doctor |
Cardiologist |
? |
TBD |
|
