Physicians
500 people
Ancient 17
Agnodice
Athenian physician, midwife and gynecologist
Apuleius
2nd-century Numidian Latin-language writer, rhetorician and philosopher
Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Roman physician and writer
Blaise of Sebaste
early 4th-century saint and bishop
Charaka
Indian physician and academic
Empedocles
5th century BC Greek philosopher
Erasistratus
ancient Greek physician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.408–c.355 BC)
Galen
2nd-century Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher
Herophilos
Greek physician (335–280 BC)
Hippocrates
Greek physician (c. 460 – c. 370 BC)
Hua Tuo
Chinese physician (c. 140–208)
Pantaleon
saint
Pedanius Dioscorides
Greco-Roman physician and pharmacologist (AD c.40-90)
Saint Valentine
3rd-century Roman Christian saint (175–273)
Sextus Empiricus
2nd-century Roman philosopher and physician
Vegetius
writer of the Later Roman Empire
Medieval 28
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Abbas Ibn Firnas
9th century astronomer and physician
Abraham ibn Ezra
12th-century Sephardic rabbi and astrologer
Abu Bakr al-Razi
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
Arab Andalusian physician, surgeon and chemist (936–1013)
Al-Kindi
Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
Alcmaeon of Croton
5th-century BC Greek physician and philosopher
Avempace
Arab Andalusian polymath (c. 1085 – 1138)
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
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Ctesias
ancient Greek historian
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Arab Christian scholar, physician and scientist (809–873)
Ibn Tufayl
Arab Muslim polymath (c. 1105–1185)
Ibn Zuhr
Arab physician, surgeon and poet (1094–1162)
Ibn al-Baitar
Andalusian Arab pharmacist, botanist, physician and scientist (1197–1248)
Ibn al-Nafis
Arab polymath and physician (1213–1288)
Jabir ibn Hayyan
8th-century Islamic alchemist and author
Jamshīd al-Kāshī
Persian astronomer and mathematician
John XXI
pope (1276-1277)
Judah Halevi
Spanish-Jewish philosopher, poet and physician (c.1075–1141)
Michael Psellos
11th-century Byzantine monk, writer and court official
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
Nahmanides
13th century Catalonian rabbi and scholar
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201–1274)
Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
Persian physician and historian (1247-1318)
Su Song
Chinese polymath and statesman (1020–1101)
Suśruta
ancient Indian physician, father of surgery
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Thābit ibn Qurra
Mesopotamian astronomer and mathematician
Renaissance 26
Aloysius Lilius
Italian astronomer
Ambroise Paré
French surgeon
Andreas Vesalius
Flemish anatomist, physician and author (1514–1564)
Conrad Gessner
Swiss physician, bibliographer and naturalist (1516–1565)
Francysk Skaryna
Ruthenian humanist, bible translator and book printer
François Rabelais
16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)
Gabriele Falloppio
Italian anatomist (1523-1562)
Gemma Frisius
Frisian physician, mathematician and cartographer (1508–1555)
Georg Joachim Rheticus
Austrian astronomist and mathematician (1514–1574)
Georgius Agricola
German mineralogist (1494-1555)
Gerolamo Cardano
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
Girolamo Fracastoro
Italian physician
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
Jan Baptist van Helmont
chemist, physiologist, and physician from the Spanish Low Countries
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Jean Nicot
French diplomat and scholar (1530-1605)
Joseph Justus Scaliger
French historian (1540-1609)
Marsilio Ficino
Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
Robert Recorde
Welsh mathematician and inventor of the symbol '='
Simon Marius
German astronomer (1573–1624)
Ulisse Aldrovandi
Italian naturalist (1522-1605)
William Gilbert
English physician, physicist and natural philosopher (1544-1603)
William Harvey
English physician (1578-1657)
Enlightenment 84
Adamantios Korais
Greek humanist scholar (1748–1833)
Aimé Bonpland
French physician, botanist and explorer (1773-1858)
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet (1708-1777)
Alessandro Cagliostro
Italian occultist, alchemist, and impostor (1743–1795)
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
André Marie Constant Duméril
French zoologist
Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest
French zoologist (1784–1838)
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
French botanist (1748–1836)
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
Carl Ludwig Willdenow
German botanist (1765-1812)
Carl Peter Thunberg
Swedish naturalist (1743-1828)
Charles Bell
Scottish physician, painter and theologian (1774–1842)
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist (1795–1876)
Claude Louis Berthollet
French chemist (1748-1822)
Claude Perrault
French architect and doctor of medicine (1613–1688)
Daniel Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700-1782)
Daniel Rutherford
British physician, chemist, botanist and physicist (1749–1819)
David Hartley
British philosopher
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)
Dorothea Christiane Erxleben
physician (1715–1762)
Edward Jenner
English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination (1749–1823)
Erasmus Darwin
English physician (1731-1802)
Erik Acharius
Swedish botanist (1757–1819)
Ernst Heinrich Weber
German psychologist (1795–1878)
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
Franz Joseph Gall
neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental...
François Quesnay
French economist
Frančesco Redi
Italian entomologist and poets
Friedrich Schiller
German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
Félix Savart
French physicist (1791–1841)
Georg Ernst Stahl
German physician and chemist (1659-1734)
Georg Wilhelm Steller
Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
George Shaw
English botanist and zoologist (1751–1813)
Gideon Mantell
British scientist and obstetrician (1790–1852)
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Italian physicist (*1608 – †1679)
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Tyrolean physician and naturalist (1723-1788)
Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim
Saxon anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist
Hans Sloane
Irish botanist, doctor, and collector (1660-1753)
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
German physician and astronomer (1758-1840)
Herman Boerhaave
Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician (1668–1738)
Hinrich Lichtenstein
German physician, explorer, botanist and zoologist (1780-1857)
Ioannis Kapodistrias
Greek statesman and diplomat (1776–1831)
Jacob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1655-1705)
Jacob van Ruisdael
Dutch painter and engraver (1628-1682)
James Hutton
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental...
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James Parkinson
English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist
Jan Evangelista Purkyně
Czech biologist, physiologist, doctor, inventor and politician (1787–1869)
Jan Swammerdam
Dutch entomologist and beekeeper
Jean-Paul Marat
politician and journalist during the French Revolution (1743-1793)
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 – 1840)
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
German naturalist (1748–1804)
Johann Friedrich Struensee
De facto regent of Denmark (1737-1772)
Johann Georg Gmelin
German and Russian scientist (1709-1755)
Johann Joachim Becher
German physicist, scientific alchemist, pioneer of chemistry, scholar, courtier, and adventurer
John Keats
English Romantic poet (1795–1821)
John Latham
English physician, naturalist and author (1740-1837)
John Locke
English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist (1656-1708)
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
French physician (1738-1814)
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
French physician and philosopher
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist (1779–1848)
Karl Ernst von Baer
Baltic German scientist (1792-1876)
Luigi Galvani
Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher
Marcello Malpighi
Italian physician (1628-1694)
Mungo Park
Scottish naturalist and explorer of the African continent
Nicolas Steno
Pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (1638–1686)
Nicolás Joseph Jacquin
chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands (1727-1817)
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician (d. 1774)
Paolo Ruffini
Italian mathematician and physician (1765-1845)
Peter Simon Pallas
German zoologist and botanist (1741–1811)
Philippe Pinel
French psychiatrist (1745–1826)
Pieter Boddaert
Dutch physician and naturalist (1730-1795)
René Laennec
French physician, inventor of stethoscope (1781-1826)
René Lesson
French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist (1794-1849)
Samuel Hahnemann
German physician known for creating homeopathy
Thomas Browne
English polymath and author (1605–1682)
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
Tobias Smollett
18th-century poet and author from Scotland
William Hyde Wollaston
English chemist and physicist (1766–1828)
William Petty
English scientist, philosopher, statistician and economist (1623-1688)
Xavier Bichat
French anatomist and pathologist (1771–1802)
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition" (1772-1844)
19th Century 179
A. J. Cronin
Scottish novelist (1896–1981)
Adolf Bastian
German anthropologist (1826–1905)
Adolf Fick
German-born physician and physiologist (1829-1901)
Albert Claude
Belgian-American cell biologist (1899–1983)
Albert Schweitzer
French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)
Albrecht Kossel
German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics
Aletta Jacobs
Dutch physician and feminist, editor (1854–1929)
Alexander Bogdanov
Russian physician, philosopher and revolutionary (1873–1928)
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
Alexander Bunge
Baltic German botanist (1803–1890)
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
Alexandre Yersin
Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist
Alfred Döblin
German expressionist novelist (1878–1957)
Alfred Kinsey
American sexologist (1894–1956)
Alice Hamilton
American physician and toxicologist (1869–1970)
Allan Hume
British Ornithologist and Founder of the Indian National Congress (1829–1912)
Allvar Gullstrand
Swedish ophthalmologist (1862-1930)
Alois Alzheimer
German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)
Ana Aslan
Romanian biologist and physician (1897–1988)
Anandi Gopal Joshi
One of the first Indian woman doctor (1865-1887)
André Frédéric Cournand
French physiologist (1895–1988)
Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
António Egas Moniz
Portuguese politian and neurosurgeon (1874-1955)
Archibald Hill
English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977)
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
Arthur Schnitzler
Austrian writer (1862–1931)
Ascanio Sobrero
Italian chemist (1812–1888)
August Krogh
Danish physiologist (1874–1949)
August Weismann
German evolutionary biologist (1834-1914)
Axel Munthe
Swedish physician (1857-1949)
Bernardo Houssay
Argentine physician (1887–1971)
Camillo Golgi
Italian physician, pathologist, scientist, and Nobel laureate (1843-1926)
Carl Ferdinand Cori
Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1896–1984)
Carlos Juan Finlay
Cuban physician discoverer of means of transmission of yellow fever through biological...
Cesare Lombroso
Italian psychiatrist, physician, and criminologist (1835-1909)
Charles Adolphe Wurtz
French chemist (1817–1884)
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
French physician
Charles Nicolle
French microbiologist (1866–1936)
Charles Richet
French physiologist and parapsychologist (1850-1935)
Charles Scott Sherrington
English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)
Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada (1821-1915)
Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician (1858–1930)
Claude Bernard
French physiologist (1813-1878)
Corneille Heymans
Belgian physiologist (1892-1968)
Dickinson W. Richards
American physician, Nobel Prize recipient (1895-1973)
Edgar Douglas Adrian
English electrophysiologist (1889-1977)
Edward Adelbert Doisy
American biochemist (1893-1986)
Elias Lönnrot
Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802-1884)
Elizabeth Blackwell
American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist (1821-1910)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
English physician and feminist (1836-1917)
Emil Abderhalden
Swiss biochemist and physiologist (1877–1950)
Emil von Behring
German physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901...
Ernst Haeckel
German zoologist (1834-1919)
Eugen Bleuler
Swiss psychiatrist (1857–1939)
Eugène Dubois
Dutch paleoanthropologist (1858–1940)
Eugène Sue
French writer (1804-1857)
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Francis Peyton Rous
American scientist (1879-1970)
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Australian virologist (1899-1985)
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
Frederick Cook
American explorer (1865-1940)
Frederick Hopkins
English biochemist
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
Estonian writer, author of the national epic Kalevipoeg (1803–1882)
Fritz Albert Lipmann
German-American biochemist
Fritz Pregl
Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1869-1930)
George Minot
American physician (1885-1950)
George Whipple
American physician and biomedical researcher (1878–1976)
Georges Clemenceau
Prime Minister of France, 1906–1909 and 1917–1920 (1841–1929)
Georges Duhamel
French writer (1884–1966)
Georgios Papanikolaou
Greek pathologist (1883-1962)
Gerhard Armauer Hansen
Norwegian physician
Gerhard Domagk
German bacteriologist (1895-1964)
Gerty Cori
Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)
Gottfried Benn
German physician, poet, and essayist (1886–1956)
Gustav Fechner
German scientist (1801-1887)
Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist (1841-1931)
H. H. Holmes
American con artist and serial killer (1861–1896)
Hans Christian Gram
Danish scientist (1853-1938)
Hans Fischer
German chemist (1881–1945)
Hans Spemann
German embryologist (1869–1941)
Harvey Williams Cushing
American neurosurgeon (1869-1939)
Hastings Banda
First president of Malawi
Havelock Ellis
British physician, writer, and social reformer (1859-1939)
Henri Victor Regnault
French physicist (1810–1878)
Henrik Dam
Danish biochemist and physiologist (1895-1976)
Henry Draper
American physician and astronomer (1837–1882)
Henry Gray
British anatomist (1827–1861)
Henry Hallett Dale
English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (1875–1968)
Herbert Spencer Gasser
American physiologist (1888-1963)
Hermann Joseph Muller
American biologist (1890–1967)
Hermann Lotze
German philosopher (1817-1881)
Hermann Oberth
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
Hideyo Noguchi
Japanese bacteriologist (1876–1928)
Howard Florey
Australian pathologist (1898-1968)
Ignaz Semmelweis
Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures (1818–1865)
James Curtis Hepburn
American physician, educator, and phonologist of Japanese (1815–1911)
James Naismith
Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketball
Jean-Martin Charcot
French neurologist (1825–1893)
Johann Friedrich von Brandt
German naturalist (1802–1879)
Johannes Fibiger
Danish physician
Johannes Peter Müller
German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (1801-1858)
John Boyd Orr
Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture...
John Franklin Enders
American medical researcher (1897-1985)
John James Rickard Macleod
Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
John Snow
English epidemiologist and physician (1813–1858)
Jonas Basanavičius
Lithuanian activist (1851-1927)
Joseph Babinski
French neurologist (1857-1932)
Joseph Erlanger
American doctor (1874-1965)
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
Juan Negrín
Prime Minister of Spain (1892-1956)
Jules Bordet
Belgian immunologist and microbiologist (1870-1961)
Julius Richard Petri
German microbiologist (1852–1921)
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist (1857–1940)
Kadambini Ganguly
Indian physician (1862–1923)
Karen Horney
American-German psychoanalyst
Karl Abraham
German psychoanalyst (1877–1925)
Karl Gebhardt
German physician and convicted war criminal (1897–1948)
Karl Jaspers
German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)
Karl Landsteiner
Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate
Kazys Grinius
Third President of Lithuania from 7 June 1926 until 17 December 1926 (1866-1950)
Kitasato Shibasaburō
Japanese bacteriologist, immunologist
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French writer (1894–1961)
Ludwig Guttmann
German-British neurologist who created the Paralympic Games (1899-1980)
Magnus Hirschfeld
German physician and sexologist (1868–1935)
Maria Montessori
Italian physician and educator (1870-1952)
Mary Edwards Walker
American feminist and doctor (1832–1919)
Maud Menten
Canadian physician and chemist (1879–1960)
Max Theiler
South African-American virologist and doctor (1899-1972)
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian author (1891–1940)
Mori Ōgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Faroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent
Nikolai Pirogov
Russian medical scientist (1810-1881)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
American poet and physician (1809–1894)
Oswald Avery
Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
Otto Loewi
Jewish-German pharmacologist
Paul Broca
French physician, anatomist and anthropologist (1824-1880)
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
Paul Hermann Müller
Swiss chemist (1899-1965)
Paulino Alcántara
Spanish footballer (1896-1964)
Philip Showalter Hench
American physician (1896-1965)
Pío Baroja
Spanish writer (1872-1956)
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and nobleman (1840–1902)
Robert Bárány
Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
Robert Mayer
German physicist (1814-1878)
Ronald Ross
British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)
Rudolf Hilferding
German politician (1877-1941)
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian,...
Sabina Spielrein
Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts (1885–1942)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
Selman Abraham Waksman
American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
Shirō Ishii
Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist and director of Unit 731 (a...
Siegbert Tarrasch
German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician (1862–1934)
Soh Jaipil
Korean-American independence activist and journalist (1864–1951)
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist (1897-1996)
Theodor Billroth
German surgeon (1829-1894)
Theodor Morell
personal physician to Adolf Hitler (1886-1948)
Theodor Schwann
German physiologist (1810–1882)
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist (1866–1945)
Victor Adler
foreign minister of Austria, editor (1852–1918)
Vladimir Bekhterev
Russian neurologist
Vladimir Dal
Russian lexicographer (1801-1872)
W. G. Grace
English amateur cricketer (1848-1915)
Waldemar Haffkine
bacteriologist (1856–1930)
Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss physiologist (1881-1973)
Wilhelm Reich
Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897–1957)
Willem Einthoven
Dutch physiologist
William Carlos Williams
American poet (1883-1963)
William James
American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist (1842–1910)
William P. Murphy
American scientist (1892–1987)
William Somerset Maugham
English playwright and author (1874–1965)
William T. G. Morton
United States dental surgeon (1819–1868)
William Walker
American filibuster, physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary (1824-1860)
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist
Étienne-Jules Marey
French scientist and chronophotographer (1830–1904)
Modern 166
Aaron Ciechanover
Israeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)
Albert B. Sabin
Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines...
Alberto Granado
Argentine-Cuban biochemistry doctor, writer, scientist and traveling companion of Che...
Alexander Luria
Soviet psychologist (1902–1977)
Allan McLeod Cormack
American physicist (1924-1998)
Andrew Fire
American biologist
Andrew Huxley
English physiologist and biophysicist (1917–2012)
Andrew Schally
Polish-American endocrinologist (1926–2024)
Andrew Wakefield
British former doctor
André Lwoff
French microbiologist
Anna Bergendahl
Swedish singer and songwriter
Anna Lee Fisher
American astronaut (born 1949)
Anthony Fauci
American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and...
António Lobo Antunes
Portuguese writer (1942-2026)
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Aribert Heim
Austrian SS member and physician in Mauthausen concentration camp (1914-1992)
Arthur Kornberg
American biochemist
Arvid Carlsson
Swedish neuroscientist
Avram Hershko
Israeli scientist
Barry Marshall
Nobel Prize winner, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011)
Baruj Benacerraf
Venezuelan-American immunologist
Bengt I. Samuelsson
Swedish biochemist
Bernard Katz
German-British biophysicist (1911–2003)
Bert Sakmann
German biologist and physician (1991 Nobel Prize)
Boris Borisovich Yegorov
Soviet cosmonaut (1937–1994)
Brian Kobilka
American physiologist
Bruce Beutler
American immunologist and geneticist
Carlos Bilardo
Argentine association football player and manager
Charles Brenton Huggins
American physiologist (1901-1997)
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
Chiaki Mukai
Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut (born 1952)
Christiaan Barnard
South African cardiac surgeon
Christian de Duve
Belgian biochemist, cytologist (1917–2013)
Colleen McCullough
Australian author (1937-2015)
Craig Mello
American biologist
César Milstein
Argentine biochemist (1927–2002)
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Cüneyt Arkın
Turkish actor and director (1937–2022)
Daniel Bovet
Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (1907–1992)
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
American medical researcher
David H. Hubel
Canadian neurophysiologist
David M. Brown
American astronaut (1956–2003)
Deepak Chopra
Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate, physician and public speaker
Denis Mukwege
Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
E. Donnall Thomas
American hematologist (1920-2012)
Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.
American pharmacologist (1915–1974)
Edward Lawrie Tatum
US genetics scientist (1909-1975)
Edward de Bono
Maltese physician (1933–2021)
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Edwin G. Krebs
American biochemist (1918–2009)
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies (1926-2004)
Ellen S. Baker
American physician and astronaut
Erwin Neher
German biophysicist
Ferid Murad
American physician and pharmacologist (1936–2023)
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
François Jacob
French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.
French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV
Frederick Chapman Robbins
American doctor
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George Davis Snell
American geneticist
George Emil Palade
Romanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate (1912–2008)
George H. Hitchings
Nobel Prize-winning American physician
George Miller
Australian filmmaker (born 1945)
George Wald
American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate (1906–1997)
Gerald Edelman
American biologist (1929–2014)
Graham Chapman
English actor, comedian and writer (1941–1989)
Gregg L. Semenza
American physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many...
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Brazilian novelist (1908-1967)
Günter Blobel
German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)
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H. Robert Horvitz
American biologist
Haing S. Ngor
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Haldan Keffer Hartline
American neuroscientist
Hans Asperger
Austrian pediatrician, medical theorist, and medical professor (1906-1980)
Hans Krebs
German-British biochemist (1900-1981)
Hans Rosling
Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker
Harald zur Hausen
German virologist and professor emeritus (1936–2023)
Harold E. Varmus
American scientist
Harvey J. Alter
American medical researcher
Howard Temin
American geneticist
Hugo Theorell
biochemist (1903-1982)
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
Inese Jaunzeme
Latvian javelin thrower (1932-2011)
J. Michael Bishop
American immunologist and microbiologist who specialized in cancer research
Jacques Monod
French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)
James Black
Scottish doctor and pharmacologist (1924–2010)
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
James P. Allison
American immunologist and Nobel laureate (born 1948)
James Rothman
American biologist and Nobel laureate
Jean Dausset
French immunologist (1916-2009)
Johann Olav Koss
Norwegian speed skater
John Carew Eccles
Australian neurophysiologist (1903–1997)
John Gurdon
British developmental biologist (1933–2025)
John Sulston
British biologist and Nobel laureate (1942–2018)
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
Josef Mengele
Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
Joseph L. Goldstein
American biochemist
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Joseph Murray
US surgeon (1919–2012)
Joshua Lederberg
American molecular biologist (1925–2008)
Ken Jeong
South Korean-American stand-up comedian and actor
Khaled Hosseini
Afghan novelist
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)
Laurel Clark
NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, and Space Shuttle mission...
Li Ching-Yuen
Chinese martial artist and herbalist who claimed extreme longevity
Li Wenliang
Chinese ophthalmologist known for warning about the coronavirus in December 2019 (1986-2020)
Linda B. Buck
American biologist
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Louise Brown
first in-vitro baby
Luis Federico Leloir
Argentine biochemist
Luke the Evangelist
one of the four evangelists
Luqman
Islamic figure
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
Maia Chiburdanidze
Georgian chess grandmaster
Margaret Rhea Seddon
surgeon and former NASA astronaut
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
Michael Stuart Brown
American geneticist and Nobel laureate
Niels Kaj Jerne
Danish immunologist
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
Osamu Tezuka
Japanese cartoonist and animator (1928–1989)
Peter Agre
American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Peter C. Doherty
Australian immunologist
Peter Medawar
English-brazilian biologist (1915–1987)
Ragnar Granit
Finnish scientist (1900–1991)
Ralph Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist (1943–2011)
Randy Schekman
Nobel prize winning American cell biologist
Raymond Vahan Damadian
American scientist and inventor (1936–2022)
Reita Faria
Indian physician and beauty contest titleholder
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-born American virologist (1914-2012)
Richard Axel
American molecular biologist
Richard Kuhn
Austrian-German biochemist (1900-1967)
Robert Edwards
English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisation
Robert F. Furchgott
American biochemist (1916-2009)
Robert Lefkowitz
American physician and biochemist
Roberta Bondar
Canadian astronaut
Robin Cook
American novelist, ophthalmologist, aquanaut
Robin Warren
Australian microbiologist and Nobel Laureate (1937–2024)
Rodney Robert Porter
English biochemist and Nobel laureate (1917–1985)
Roger Bannister
English physician and athlete (1929–2018)
Roger Guillemin
French-American neuroscientist (1924–2024)
Roger Sperry
American neuroscientist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss immunologist (born 1944)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
American medical physicist (1921-2011)
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Slovak-Jewish Auschwitz escapee, Canadian biochemist (1924–2006)
Ruth Pfau
German-Pakistani physician and Catholic nun (1929–2017)
Sergey Lukyanenko
Russian science fiction writer
Severo Ochoa
Spanish physician
Shimon Sakaguchi
Japanese immunologist and physician (1951-)
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
Stanisław Lem
Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor (1921–2006)
Stanley B. Prusiner
American neurologist and biochemist
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Brazilian association football player (1954–2011)
Taslima Nasrin
author, secular humanist, and feminist
Tasuku Honjo
Japanese professor of immunology and genomic medicine (1942–)
Thomas C. Südhof
German biochemist
Thomas Huckle Weller
American virologist (1915-2008)
Tomas Lindahl
Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist
Tostão
Brazilian association football (born 1947)
Ulf von Euler
Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist (1905–1983)
Uğur Şahin
German oncologist, developer of COVID-19 vaccine
Valeri Polyakov
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
Vasily Aksyonov
Soviet-Russian writer (1932-2009)
Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist and geneticist
Werner Forssmann
German physician, Nobel prize winner (1904-1979)
Wim Eijk
Catholic cardinal
Yelena Bonner
human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov
Zakir Naik
Indian Islamic preacher
Zilda Arns
Brazilian pediatrician (1934-2010)
Özlem Türeci
Turkish-German physician (born 1967)