| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Wallace Calvin Abbott |
Doctor |
12-Oct-1857 |
4-Jul-1921 |
Founder of Abbott Laboratories |
| Patch Adams |
Doctor |
28-May-1945 |
|
Gesundheit! Institute |
| Edgar Adrian |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1889 |
4-Aug-1977 |
Electricity within nerve cells |
| Arthur Agatston |
Doctor |
1947 |
|
The South Beach Diet |
| al-Razi |
Doctor |
c. 865 AD |
27-Oct-925 AD |
Persian alchemist |
| Charles Alderton |
Inventor |
21-Jun-1857 |
29-May-1941 |
Invented Dr Pepper |
| Robert J. Alpern |
Doctor |
c. 1950 |
|
Dean, Yale School of Medicine |
| David Alter |
Inventor |
3-Dec-1807 |
18-Sep-1881 |
Almost discovered spectroscopy |
| Alois Alzheimer |
Doctor |
14-Jun-1864 |
19-Dec-1915 |
Alzheimer's Disease |
| Virginia Apgar |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1909 |
7-Aug-1974 |
Anesthesiologist, Apgar Score |
| John Arbuthnot |
Doctor |
1667 |
27-Feb-1735 |
Scriblerus Club |
| Asclepiades |
Doctor |
124 BC |
c. 40 BC |
Corpuscular theory of medicine |
| Hans Asperger |
Doctor |
18-Feb-1906 |
21-Oct-1980 |
Asperger's Syndrome |
| Robert Atkins |
Doctor |
17-Oct-1930 |
17-Apr-2003 |
Atkins Diet doctor |
| Alexander T. Augusta |
Doctor |
8-Mar-1825 |
21-Dec-1890 |
First black battlefield surgeon |
| Dennis A. Ausiello |
Doctor |
c. 1945 |
|
Massachusetts General Hospital |
| John H. Austin |
Doctor |
c. 1944 |
29-May-2009 |
Arcadian Management Services |
| Avenzoar |
Doctor |
c. 1090 |
1162 |
Prominent Arab physician |
| Averroës |
Philosopher |
1126 |
1198 |
Islamic commentator on the classics |
| Avicenna |
Doctor |
980 AD |
1037 |
Canon of Medicine |
| Richard Axel |
Scientist |
2-Jul-1946 |
|
Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
| Joseph Babinski |
Doctor |
17-Nov-1857 |
29-Oct-1932 |
The Babinski sign |
| Dr. Michael Baden |
Doctor |
1934 |
|
Forensic pathologist on HBO's Autopsy |
| Lenox D. Baker, Jr. |
Doctor |
c. 1942 |
|
Mid-Atlantic Cardiothoracic Surgeons |
| John C. Baldwin |
Doctor |
c. 1949 |
|
Health Sciences Center, Texas Tech |
| Frederick G. Banting |
Scientist |
14-Nov-1891 |
21-Feb-1941 |
Discovered insulin |
| Robert Bárány |
Doctor |
22-Apr-1876 |
8-Apr-1936 |
Studied inner ear, equilibrium system |
| Christiaan Barnard |
Doctor |
8-Nov-1922 |
2-Sep-2001 |
Performed the first heart transplant |
| Neal D. Barnard |
Doctor |
? |
|
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine |
| Gaspard Bauhin |
Botanist |
17-Jan-1560 |
5-Dec-1624 |
Pinax Theatri Botanici |
| William Bayliss |
Doctor |
2-May-1860 |
27-Aug-1924 |
Co-Discovered hormones |
| William Beaumont |
Doctor |
21-Nov-1785 |
25-Apr-1853 |
Observed human digestion |
| Emil von Behring |
Doctor |
15-Mar-1854 |
31-Mar-1917 |
Created diptheria innoculation |
| Sir Charles Bell |
Doctor |
Nov-1774 |
28-Apr-1842 |
New Idea of Anatomy of the Brain |
| Lorenzo Bellini |
Doctor |
3-Sep-1643 |
8-Jan-1704 |
Discovered kidney's Bellini Ducts |
| Baruj Benacerraf |
Scientist |
29-Oct-1920 |
2-Aug-2011 |
Gene control of HLA antigens |
| Regina Benjamin |
Doctor |
26-Oct-1956 |
|
US Surgeon General |
| Sune K. Bergström |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1916 |
15-Aug-2004 |
Prostaglandins |
| Claude Bernard |
Doctor |
12-Jul-1813 |
10-Feb-1878 |
French physiologist |
| Marie-François-Xavier Bichat |
Doctor |
11-Nov-1771 |
22-Jul-1802 |
Anatomie générale |
| Jacob Bigelow |
Botanist |
27-Feb-1787 |
10-Jan-1879 |
American Medical Botany |
| John S. Billings |
Administrator |
12-Apr-1838 |
11-Mar-1913 |
New York Public Library |
| Theodor Billroth |
Doctor |
26-Apr-1829 |
6-Feb-1894 |
Viennese surgeon |
| J. Michael Bishop |
Scientist |
22-Feb-1936 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
| James W. Black |
Scientist |
14-Jun-1924 |
22-Mar-2010 |
Propranolol and cimetidine |
| Elizabeth Blackwell |
Doctor |
3-Feb-1821 |
31-May-1910 |
America's first woman doctor |
| Alfred Blalock |
Doctor |
5-Apr-1899 |
15-Sep-1964 |
"Blue baby" operation |
| Günter Blobel |
Scientist |
21-May-1936 |
|
Protein signaling in cells |
| Pedro Bloch |
Playwright |
17-Apr-1914 |
23-Feb-2004 |
The Hands of Eurydice |
| Baruch S. Blumberg |
Scientist |
28-Jul-1925 |
5-Apr-2011 |
Hepatitis B vaccine |
| Giovanni Alfonso Borelli |
Doctor |
28-Jan-1608 |
31-Dec-1679 |
De motu animalium |
| Daniel Bovet |
Scientist |
23-Mar-1907 |
8-Apr-1992 |
Anti-histamines, muscle relaxants, sulfanilamide |
| Lester Breslow |
Doctor |
17-Mar-1915 |
9-Apr-2012 |
Dean, UCLA School of Public Health, 1972-80 |
| Peter W. Brown |
Doctor |
c. 1942 |
|
Virginia Surgical Associates |
| Sir Thomas Browne |
Author |
19-Oct-1605 |
19-Oct-1682 |
Pseudodoxia Epidemica |
| Frank Macfarlane Burnet |
Scientist |
3-Sep-1899 |
31-Aug-1985 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| George Busk |
Doctor |
12-Aug-1807 |
10-Aug-1886 |
British surgeon and zoologist |
| Robert N. Butler |
Doctor |
21-Jan-1927 |
4-Jul-2010 |
Expert on aging |
| William T. Butler |
Doctor |
c. 1932 |
|
Baylor College of Medicine |
| John Caius |
Doctor |
6-Oct-1510 |
29-Jul-1573 |
Second founder of Gonville and Caius College |
| Helen Caldicott |
Activist |
7-Aug-1938 |
|
Anti-nuclear crusader |
| Walter Bradford Cannon |
Scientist |
19-Oct-1871 |
1-Oct-1945 |
Fight or flight response |
| Girolamo Cardano |
Doctor |
24-Sep-1501 |
21-Sep-1576 |
De Subtilitate |
| Arvid Carlsson |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1923 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| Richard H. Carmona |
Doctor |
22-Nov-1949 |
|
US Surgeon General, 2002-06 |
| Alexis Carrel |
Doctor |
28-Jun-1873 |
5-Nov-1944 |
Sutured blood vessels |
| Benjamin S. Carson |
Doctor |
18-Sep-1951 |
|
Pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins |
| Ernst B. Chain |
Scientist |
19-Jun-1906 |
12-Aug-1979 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Margaret F. C. Chan |
Doctor |
1947 |
|
WHO Director-General |
| Jean-Martin Charcot |
Doctor |
29-Nov-1825 |
16-Aug-1893 |
Father of neurology |
| John Charnley |
Doctor |
29-Aug-1912 |
5-Aug-1982 |
Hip replacement surgery |
| Brock Chisholm |
Doctor |
18-May-1896 |
4-Feb-1971 |
First Director-General of World Health Organization |
| Aaron Ciechanover |
Scientist |
1-Oct-1947 |
|
Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation |
| A. J. Clark |
Scientist |
19-Aug-1885 |
30-Jul-1941 |
Drug responses |
| Albert Claude |
Scientist |
23-Aug-1899 |
22-May-1983 |
Microstructure of the cell |
| Alex Comfort |
Doctor |
10-Feb-1920 |
26-Mar-2000 |
The Joy of Sex |
| Denton Cooley |
Doctor |
22-Aug-1920 |
|
Pioneering heart surgeon |
| André F. Cournand |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1895 |
19-Feb-1988 |
Cardiac catheterization |
| Harvey Cushing |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1869 |
7-Oct-1939 |
Cushing's Syndrome |
| Henry Dale |
Scientist |
9-Jun-1875 |
23-Jul-1968 |
Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter |
| Jean Dausset |
Scientist |
19-Oct-1916 |
6-Jun-2009 |
Recognition of HLA antigens |
| Michael DeBakey |
Doctor |
7-Sep-1908 |
11-Jul-2008 |
Father of cardiovascular surgery |
| Pierre-Joseph Desault |
Doctor |
6-Feb-1738 |
1-Jun-1795 |
Surgeon at Hôtel Dieu |
| Susan Desmond-Hellmann |
Doctor |
1958 |
|
Chancellor of UCSF |
| Alphonse Dochez |
Doctor |
21-Apr-1882 |
30-Jun-1964 |
Scarlet fever, pneumonia, common cold |
| E. C. Dodds |
Scientist |
13-Oct-1899 |
16-Dec-1973 |
Diethylstilbestrol |
| Gerhard Domagk |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1895 |
24-Apr-1964 |
Sulfa drugs for strep, stapf infections |
| John Langdon Down |
Doctor |
18-Nov-1828 |
7-Oct-1896 |
Down's syndrome |
| Charles Drew |
Doctor |
3-Jun-1904 |
1-Apr-1950 |
First to separate blood plasma |
| Renato Dulbecco |
Scientist |
22-Feb-1914 |
20-Feb-2012 |
Tumor viruses and host genetics |
| Christian de Duve |
Scientist |
2-Oct-1917 |
|
Microstructure of the cell |
| Victor J. Dzau |
Doctor |
1946 |
|
CEO of Duke University Health System |
| Dr. Dean Edell |
Radio Personality |
c. 1941 |
|
Syndicated call-in radio doctor |
| Gerald M. Edelman |
Scientist |
1-Jul-1929 |
|
Chemical structure of antibodies |
| Paul Ehrlich |
Doctor |
14-Mar-1854 |
20-Aug-1915 |
Father of chemotherapy |
| Willem Einthoven |
Scientist |
21-May-1860 |
28-Sep-1927 |
Invented the electrocardiograph |
| Joseph Erlanger |
Scientist |
5-Jan-1874 |
5-Dec-1965 |
Nerve conduction |
| Bartolomeo Eustachi |
Scientist |
c. 1500 |
27-Aug-1574 |
Anatomist |
| Girolamo Fabrici |
Doctor |
20-May-1537 |
21-May-1619 |
De Venarum Ostiolis |
| Gabriele Falloppio |
Doctor |
1523 |
9-Oct-1562 |
Observationes anatomicae |
| Emerson D. Farley, Jr. |
Doctor |
c. 1938 |
|
Retired Physician, Richmond, Virginia |
| Paul Farmer |
Doctor |
1959 |
|
Doctor for the world's poorest |
| Randolph M. Ferlic |
Doctor |
17-Jul-1936 |
|
Thoracic surgeon |
| Johannes Fibiger |
Scientist |
23-Apr-1867 |
30-Jan-1928 |
Caused cancer in lab rats |
| Niels Ryberg Finsen |
Doctor |
15-Dec-1860 |
25-Sep-1904 |
Light therapy for lupus |
| Edward Floyd |
Doctor |
c. 1934 |
|
Floyd Medical Associates |
| Werner Forssmann |
Doctor |
29-Aug-1904 |
1-Jun-1979 |
Cardiac catheterization |
| Dan Fortmann |
Football |
11-Apr-1916 |
23-May-1995 |
NFL Hall of Fame Guard |
| T. R. Fraser |
Scientist |
5-Feb-1841 |
4-Jan-1920 |
Made poison and venom into medicine |
| A. Stone Freedberg |
Doctor |
30-May-1908 |
25-Aug-2009 |
Found H. Pylori near stomach ulcers |
| John Freind |
Doctor |
1675 |
26-Jul-1728 |
The History of Physic |
| Michael A. Friedman |
Doctor |
c. 1944 |
|
Oncologist, City of Hope |
| Bill Frist |
Politician |
22-Feb-1952 |
|
US Senate Majority Leader, 2003-07 |
| Robert F. Furchgott |
Scientist |
4-Jun-1916 |
19-May-2009 |
Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal |
| D. Carleton Gajdusek |
Scientist |
9-Sep-1923 |
12-Dec-2008 |
Kuru (slow virus infections) |
| Galen |
Doctor |
129 AD |
c. 216 AD |
The medical authority for over 1000 years |
| Franz Joseph Gall |
Doctor |
9-Mar-1758 |
22-Aug-1828 |
Invented phrenology |
| Robert C. Gallo |
Doctor |
23-Mar-1937 |
|
Identified first retroviruses in humans |
| Luigi Galvani |
Doctor |
9-Sep-1737 |
4-Dec-1798 |
Explored bioelectical phenomena |
| Silvester Gardiner |
Doctor |
29-Jun-1708 |
8-Aug-1786 |
Colonial American pharmacist |
| Herbert S. Gasser |
Scientist |
5-Jul-1888 |
11-May-1963 |
Nerve conduction |
| James R. Gavin III |
Doctor |
c. 1945 |
|
Morehouse School of Medicine |
| Julie Gerberding |
Doctor |
22-Aug-1955 |
|
Director, Centers for Disease Control, 2002-09 |
| John H. Gibbon, Jr. |
Doctor |
29-Sep-1903 |
5-Feb-1973 |
Open-heart surgery |
| William Gilbert |
Physicist |
24-May-1544 |
10-Dec-1603 |
De Magnete |
| Alfred G. Gilman |
Scientist |
1-Jul-1941 |
|
G-protein cell signal transmission |
| Alan B. Glassberg |
Doctor |
c. 1937 |
|
Oncology Professor, UCSF, 1970-2006 |
| Lee Goldman |
Doctor |
6-Jan-1948 |
|
Goldman Index for cardiac risk |
| Joseph L. Goldstein |
Scientist |
18-Apr-1940 |
|
Hypercholesterolemia and cell metabolism |
| Camillo Golgi |
Scientist |
7-Jul-1843 |
21-Jan-1926 |
Structure of the nervous system |
| Benjamin F. Goodrich |
Business |
4-Nov-1841 |
3-Aug-1888 |
Founder of Goodrich Corporation |
| William C. Gorgas |
Doctor |
3-Oct-1854 |
3-Jul-1920 |
Malaria and yellow fever |
| John Gorrie |
Inventor |
3-Oct-1803 |
29-Jun-1855 |
Invented air conditioning |
| Ragnar Granit |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1900 |
31-Mar-1990 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Joseph Mortimer Granville |
Doctor |
1833 |
1900 |
Electric vibrator |
| Pedro José Greer, Jr. |
Doctor |
15-Jun-1956 |
|
Gastroenterologist, RAND Trustee |
| Roger Guillemin |
Scientist |
11-Jan-1924 |
|
Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides) |
| Allvar Gullstrand |
Doctor |
5-Jun-1862 |
28-Jul-1930 |
Ophthalmologist, refraction of light in the eye |
| Sanjay Gupta |
TV Personality |
23-Oct-1969 |
|
CNN's resident neurosurgeon |
| Samuel Guthrie |
Doctor |
1782 |
19-Oct-1848 |
Discovered chloroform |
| David Hager |
Doctor |
c. 1946 |
|
Gynecologist, conservative activist |
| Samuel Hahnemann |
Doctor |
10-Apr-1755 |
2-Jul-1843 |
Founder of homeopathy |
| John Scott Haldane |
Doctor |
3-May-1860 |
14-Mar-1936 |
Breathing regulated by CO2 |
| Marshall Hall |
Doctor |
18-Feb-1790 |
11-Aug-1857 |
Theory of reflex action |
| Albrecht von Haller |
Doctor |
16-Oct-1708 |
12-Dec-1777 |
Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani |
| William Stewart Halsted |
Doctor |
23-Sep-1852 |
7-Sep-1922 |
Pioneer of sterile surgical technique |
| Haldan K. Hartline |
Scientist |
22-Dec-1903 |
17-Mar-1983 |
Physiology of the retina |
| William Harvey |
Doctor |
1-Apr-1578 |
3-Jun-1657 |
Discovered circulation of blood |
| Harald zur Hausen |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1936 |
|
Papilloma virus |
| Bernadine P. Healy |
Doctor |
4-Aug-1944 |
6-Aug-2011 |
President, American Red Cross, 1999-2001 |
| Norman G. Heatley |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1911 |
5-Jan-2004 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Henry Heimlich |
Doctor |
3-Feb-1920 |
|
Heimlich maneuver |
| Philip S. Hench |
Scientist |
28-Feb-1896 |
30-Mar-1965 |
Adrenocortical hormones |
| Jane E. Henney |
Doctor |
c. 1947 |
|
FDA Commissioner, 1998-2001 |
| Avram Hershko |
Scientist |
31-Dec-1937 |
|
Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation |
| Walter Hess |
Scientist |
17-Mar-1881 |
12-Aug-1973 |
Brain mapping, neurophysiological methods |
| Stuart Heydt |
Doctor |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Geisinger Health System, 1991-2000 |
| Hippocrates |
Doctor |
c. 460 BC |
c. 377 BC |
Father of Medicine |
| David Ho |
Doctor |
3-Nov-1952 |
|
AIDS researcher |
| Steven Hoefflin |
Doctor |
7-Feb-1946 |
|
Michael Jackson's former plastic surgeon |
| Doc Holliday |
Doctor |
14-Aug-1851 |
8-Nov-1887 |
Wyatt Earp's reliable friend |
| Frederick Hopkins |
Scientist |
20-Jun-1861 |
16-May-1947 |
Discovered vitamins |
| Bernardo Houssay |
Scientist |
10-Apr-1887 |
21-Sep-1971 |
Pituitary hormones in sugar metabolism |
| David H. Hubel |
Scientist |
27-Feb-1926 |
|
Neurophysiology of vision |
| Charles B. Huggins |
Scientist |
22-Sep-1901 |
12-Jan-1997 |
Hormonal treatment of prostate and breast cancers |
| John Hunter |
Doctor |
13-Feb-1728 |
16-Oct-1793 |
English pathologist |
| William Hunter |
Doctor |
23-May-1718 |
30-Mar-1783 |
English anatomist and obstetrician |
| Imhotep |
Architect |
c. 3000 BC |
c. 2950 BC |
Commoner who became a God |
| J. Hughlings Jackson |
Doctor |
4-Apr-1835 |
7-Oct-1911 |
Father of British neurology |
| François Jacob |
Scientist |
17-Jun-1920 |
|
Operon theory of genetic control |
| Harry R. Jacobson |
Doctor |
c. 1947 |
|
Vice Chancellor for Health at Vanderbilt |
| Robert Jarvik |
Doctor |
11-May-1946 |
|
Co-Inventor, Jarvik-7 artificial heart |
| Edward Jenner |
Doctor |
17-May-1749 |
26-Jan-1823 |
Smallpox Vaccination |
| William Norris Jennings |
Doctor |
c. 1943 |
|
Jewish Hospital and St. Mary's Healthcare |
| Niels K. Jerne |
Scientist |
23-Dec-1911 |
7-Oct-1994 |
Immune theory (anti-antibody) |
| Michael M. E. Johns |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Chancellor, Emory University |
| Steve Kagen |
Politician |
12-Dec-1949 |
|
Congressman from Wisconsin, 2007-11 |
| Eric R. Kandel |
Scientist |
7-Nov-1929 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| Bernard Katz |
Scientist |
26-Mar-1911 |
20-Apr-2003 |
Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland |
| William N. Kelley |
Doctor |
23-Jun-1939 |
|
Kelley-Seegmiller Syndrome |
| John Harvey Kellogg |
Doctor |
26-Feb-1852 |
14-Dec-1943 |
Battle Creek Sanitarium |
| Jack Kevorkian |
Doctor |
26-May-1928 |
3-Jun-2011 |
Euthanasia enthusiast |
| Harvey Klein |
Doctor |
c. 1937 |
|
Cornell University Medical College |
| Charles Knowlton |
Doctor |
10-May-1800 |
20-Feb-1850 |
Early advocate of birth control |
| Robert Koch |
Doctor |
11-Dec-1843 |
27-May-1910 |
Germ theory of disease |
| Theodor Kocher |
Doctor |
25-Aug-1841 |
27-Jul-1917 |
Thyroid surgeon |
| Willem Johan Kolff |
Scientist |
14-Feb-1911 |
11-Feb-2009 |
Artificial kidney, artificial heart |
| Arthur Kornberg |
Scientist |
3-Mar-1918 |
26-Oct-2007 |
Synthesized DNA |
| Albrecht Kossel |
Scientist |
16-Sep-1853 |
5-Jul-1927 |
Chemistry of tissues and cells |
| Edwin G. Krebs |
Scientist |
6-Jun-1918 |
21-Dec-2009 |
Protein phosphorylation |
| René Laënnec |
Doctor |
17-Feb-1781 |
13-Aug-1826 |
Stethoscope |
| Karl Landsteiner |
Scientist |
14-Jun-1868 |
26-Jun-1943 |
Discovered blood typing |
| Alphonse Laveran |
Doctor |
18-Jun-1845 |
18-May-1922 |
Found the parasite that causes malaria |
| Risa Lavizzo-Mourey |
Doctor |
1954 |
|
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
| Jeffrey M. Leiden |
Doctor |
c. 1953 |
|
Clarus Ventures |
| Rita Levi-Montalcini |
Scientist |
22-Apr-1909 |
|
Nerve and skin cell growth factors |
| Thomas Linacre |
Doctor |
c. 1460 |
20-Oct-1524 |
Established the Royal Academy of Physicians |
| Joseph Lister |
Doctor |
5-Apr-1827 |
10-Feb-1912 |
Pioneer of antiseptic surgery |
| Jacques Loeb |
Doctor |
7-Apr-1859 |
11-Feb-1924 |
Investigator of artificial parthenogenesis |
| Otto Loewi |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1873 |
25-Dec-1961 |
Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter |
| Karl Lohmann |
Chemist |
10-Apr-1898 |
22-Apr-1978 |
Discovered ATP |
| Floyd D. Loop |
Doctor |
c. 1936 |
|
Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
| Bernard Lown |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1921 |
|
Inventor of defibrillator, peace activist |
| André Lwoff |
Scientist |
8-May-1902 |
30-Sep-1994 |
Operon theory of genetic control |
| Adel A. Mahmoud |
Doctor |
c. 1942 |
|
Molecular Biology Professor at Princeton |
| Moses Maimonides |
Religion |
30-Mar-1135 |
13-Dec-1204 |
Codified Jewish law |
| Marcello Malpighi |
Doctor |
10-Mar-1628 |
30-Nov-1694 |
Early microscopic anatomist |
| Jean-Paul Marat |
Activist |
24-May-1743 |
13-Jul-1793 |
French revolutionary |
| Barry J. Marshall |
Doctor |
30-Sep-1951 |
|
H. pylori bacteria causes ulcers |
| Joseph B. Martin |
Doctor |
1938 |
|
Dean, Harvard Medical School, 1997-2007 |
| John E. Maupin, Jr. |
Doctor |
c. 1946 |
|
President, Morehouse School of Medicine |
| Charles Horace Mayo |
Doctor |
19-Jul-1865 |
26-May-1939 |
Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic |
| William James Mayo |
Doctor |
29-Jun-1861 |
28-Jul-1939 |
Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic |
| Mark McClellan |
Government |
26-Jun-1963 |
|
Medicare Chief |
| Ephraim McDowell |
Doctor |
11-Nov-1771 |
25-Jun-1830 |
Performed the first ovariotomy |
| Edward Mellanby |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1884 |
30-Jan-1955 |
Rickets |
| Josef Mengele |
Doctor |
16-Mar-1911 |
7-Feb-1979 |
The Angel of Death |
| Otto Meyerhof |
Scientist |
12-Apr-1884 |
6-Oct-1951 |
Glycogen-lactic acid cycle |
| Oskar Minkowski |
Doctor |
13-Jan-1858 |
18-Jul-1931 |
Linked pancreas to diabetes |
| George R. Minot |
Doctor |
2-Dec-1885 |
25-Feb-1950 |
Liver therapy for pernicious anemia |
| S. Weir Mitchell |
Novelist |
15-Feb-1829 |
4-Jan-1914 |
The Case of George Dedlow |
| Egas Moniz |
Scientist |
29-Nov-1874 |
13-Dec-1955 |
Pre-frontal lobotomy and cerebral arteriography |
| Luc Montagnier |
Scientist |
18-Aug-1932 |
|
Co-Discoverer of HIV |
| Henry Morgentaler |
Doctor |
19-Mar-1923 |
|
Abortion rights in Canada |
| Kenneth P. Moritsugu |
Doctor |
5-Mar-1945 |
|
US Surgeon General, 2006-07 |
| Samuel Mudd |
Doctor |
20-Dec-1833 |
10-Jan-1883 |
Physician who treated Lincoln's assassin |
| Ferid Murad |
Scientist |
14-Sep-1936 |
|
Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal |
| William P. Murphy |
Scientist |
6-Feb-1892 |
9-Oct-1987 |
Liver therapy for pernicious anemia |
| Conrad Murray |
Doctor |
19-Feb-1953 |
|
Michael Jackson's personal physician |
| Joseph E. Murray |
Doctor |
1-Apr-1919 |
|
Kidney transplants |
| Thomas D. Mutter |
Doctor |
9-Mar-1811 |
16-Mar-1859 |
Surgeon, Mütter Museum benefactor |
| Woodrow A. Myers, Jr. |
Doctor |
14-Feb-1954 |
|
EVP at Wellpoint, 2000-05 |
| Daniel Nathans |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1928 |
16-Nov-1999 |
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| Bernard Nathanson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1926 |
|
Pro-life activist, former abortionist |
| Haing S. Ngor |
Victim |
22-Mar-1940 |
25-Feb-1996 |
The Killing Fields |
| Charles Nicolle |
Scientist |
21-Sep-1866 |
28-Feb-1936 |
Found that lice transmit typhus |
| Thomas T. Noguchi |
Doctor |
4-Jan-1927 |
|
Coroner to the Stars |
| Nostradamus |
Paranormal |
14-Dec-1503 |
1-Jul-1566 |
Notoriously ambiguous prophet |
| Antonia C. Novello |
Doctor |
23-Aug-1944 |
|
US Surgeon General, 1990-93 |
| Severo Ochoa |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1905 |
1-Nov-1993 |
Synthesized RNA |
| William Osler |
Doctor |
12-Jul-1849 |
29-Dec-1919 |
Father of psychosomatic medicine |
| Humphry Osmond |
Doctor |
1-Jul-1917 |
6-Feb-2004 |
LSD proponent, turned on Aldous Huxley |
| O'Dell M. Owens |
Doctor |
c. 1947 |
|
Coroner of Hamilton County, Ohio |
| Mehmet Oz |
Doctor |
11-Jun-1960 |
|
Healing from the Heart |
| Sir James Paget |
Doctor |
11-Jan-1814 |
20-Dec-1899 |
Father of modern pathology |
| George E. Palade |
Scientist |
19-Nov-1912 |
7-Oct-2008 |
Microstructure of the cell |
| D. D. Palmer |
Doctor |
7-Mar-1845 |
20-Oct-1913 |
Founder of chiropractic medicine |
| George Papanicolaou |
Scientist |
13-May-1883 |
19-Feb-1962 |
Pap smear |
| Paracelsus |
Chemist |
11-Nov-1493 |
24-Sep-1541 |
Alchemist and doctor |
| Ambroise Paré |
Doctor |
1510 |
20-Dec-1590 |
Prominent 16th c. French surgeon |
| James Parkinson |
Doctor |
11-Apr-1755 |
21-Dec-1824 |
Essay on the Shaking Palsy |
| Ivan Pavlov |
Scientist |
14-Sep-1849 |
27-Feb-1936 |
Conditioned reflexes |
| Philip Syng Physick |
Doctor |
7-Jul-1768 |
15-Dec-1837 |
Father of American surgery |
| Philippe Pinel |
Psychiatrist |
20-Apr-1745 |
25-Oct-1826 |
Unchained the insane |
| Mary Lake Polan |
Doctor |
c. 1943 |
|
OG Professor at Stanford |
| Alvin F. Poussaint |
Doctor |
15-May-1934 |
|
Child-rearing expert |
| Deborah E. Powell |
Doctor |
1939 |
|
Dean of UMN Medical School |
| Fritz Pregl |
Chemist |
3-Sep-1869 |
13-Dec-1930 |
Microanalysis of organic compounds |
| Franklyn G. Prendergast |
Doctor |
7-Mar-1945 |
|
Mayo Clinic |
| Ann Preston |
Doctor |
1-Dec-1813 |
18-Apr-1872 |
Woman's Medical College and Woman's Hospital |
| Stanley B. Prusiner |
Scientist |
28-May-1942 |
|
Prions |
| Charles B. Purvis |
Doctor |
14-Apr-1842 |
14-Dec-1929 |
Pioneering African-American physician |
| Bessica Raiche |
Aviator |
Apr-1875 |
11-Apr-1932 |
Aviatrix and gynecologist |
| Santiago Ramón y Cajal |
Doctor |
1-May-1852 |
17-Oct-1934 |
Structure of the nervous system |
| Prem Reddy |
Doctor |
1949 |
|
Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. |
| Wilhelm Reich |
Scientist |
24-Mar-1897 |
3-Nov-1957 |
Founder of Orgonomy |
| Dickinson W. Richards |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1895 |
23-Feb-1973 |
Cardiac catheterization |
| Royal Rife |
Doctor |
16-May-1888 |
11-Aug-1971 |
Beam Ray Machine destroys cancer |
| Barbara K. Rimer |
Doctor |
c. 1949 |
|
Dean, UNC School of Public Health |
| Frederick C. Robbins |
Scientist |
25-Aug-1916 |
4-Aug-2003 |
Cultured the polio virus |
| Peyton Rous |
Scientist |
5-Oct-1879 |
16-Feb-1970 |
Blood banks and carcinogenic viruses |
| Frank S. Royal |
Doctor |
c. 1939 |
|
Family practitioner, Richmond |
| Benjamin Rush |
Politician |
4-Jan-1746 |
19-Apr-1813 |
Signed Declaration of Independence |
| Oliver Sacks |
Doctor |
9-Jul-1933 |
|
Awakenings |
| Bert Sakmann |
Scientist |
12-Jun-1942 |
|
Cellular ion channels |
| Bengt I. Samuelsson |
Scientist |
21-May-1934 |
|
Prostaglandins |
| Béla Schick |
Doctor |
16-Jul-1877 |
6-Dec-1967 |
Schick test for diphtheria |
| Ignaz Semmelweis |
Doctor |
1-Jul-1818 |
13-Aug-1865 |
Pioneer of antiseptics |
| Michael Servetus |
Religion |
c. 1511 |
27-Oct-1553 |
De Trinitatis Erroribus |
| Anna Howard Shaw |
Activist |
14-Feb-1847 |
2-Jul-1919 |
National American Women's Suffrage Association |
| Charles Sherrington |
Doctor |
27-Nov-1857 |
4-Mar-1952 |
Neurons and synapses |
| Sir Robert Sibbald |
Doctor |
15-Apr-1641 |
Aug-1722 |
Scottish physician and antiquary |
| J. Marion Sims |
Doctor |
25-Jan-1813 |
13-Nov-1883 |
Father of gynecology |
| Jens C. Skou |
Scientist |
8-Oct-1918 |
|
ATPase researcher |
| Sir Hans Sloane |
Curator |
16-Apr-1660 |
11-Jan-1753 |
Milk chocolate and the British Museum |
| Hamilton O. Smith |
Scientist |
23-Aug-1931 |
|
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| Hugh C. Smith |
Doctor |
c. 1939 |
|
Mayo Clinic Rochester |
| Ralph Snyderman |
Doctor |
1940 |
|
CEO of Duke University Health System |
| Alfred Sommer |
Doctor |
1942 |
|
SPH Dean at Johns Hopkins, 1990-2005 |
| Patrick Soon-Shiong |
Business |
1952 |
|
Founder, Abraxis BioScience |
| Benjamin Spock |
Doctor |
2-May-1903 |
15-Mar-1998 |
Baby and Child Care |
| Ralph M. Steinman |
Biologist |
14-Jan-1943 |
30-Sep-2011 |
Dendritic cells |
| Patrick Steptoe |
Doctor |
9-Jun-1913 |
21-Mar-1988 |
In vitro fertilization |
| Thomas P. Stossel |
Doctor |
c. 1941 |
|
Professor, Harvard Medical School |
| Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. |
Scientist |
19-Nov-1915 |
9-Mar-1974 |
Hormones mechanisms (cyclic AMP) |
| Thomas Sydenham |
Doctor |
13-Sep-1624 |
29-Dec-1689 |
The English Hippocrates |
| James Syme |
Doctor |
7-Nov-1799 |
26-Jun-1870 |
Leading Scottish surgeon |
| Helen B. Taussig |
Doctor |
24-May-1898 |
20-May-1986 |
Mother of pediatric cardiology |
| Hugo Theorell |
Scientist |
6-Jul-1903 |
15-Aug-1982 |
Oxidation enzymes |
| Samuel O. Thier |
Doctor |
23-Jun-1937 |
|
CEO of Massachusetts General, 1996-2002 |
| E. Donnall Thomas |
Scientist |
15-Mar-1920 |
|
Bone marrow transplants |
| Lewis Thomas |
Doctor |
25-Nov-1913 |
3-Dec-1993 |
The Lives of a Cell |
| Craig B. Thompson |
Doctor |
c. 1952 |
|
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| George Tiller |
Doctor |
8-Aug-1941 |
31-May-2009 |
Late-term abortionist |
| Georges Gilles de la Tourette |
Doctor |
30-Oct-1857 |
26-May-1904 |
Tourette's syndrome |
| Wylie Vale, Jr. |
Doctor |
3-Jul-1941 |
3-Jan-2012 |
Endocrinologist at Salk Institute |
| Harold E. Varmus |
Scientist |
18-Dec-1939 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
| Andreas Vesalius |
Doctor |
31-Dec-1514 |
Jun-1564 |
De Humani Corporis Fabrica |
| Rudolf Virchow |
Doctor |
13-Oct-1821 |
5-Sep-1902 |
Pathology and progressive politics |
| Andrew von Eschenbach |
Government |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
FDA Commissioner, 2005-09 |
| Gunther von Hagens |
Artist |
10-Jan-1945 |
|
Popularized cadaver art |
| Andrew Wakefield |
Doctor |
1957 |
|
Bogus study linked vaccines and autism |
| Mary Edwards Walker |
Doctor |
26-Nov-1832 |
21-Feb-1919 |
First female US Army surgeon |
| Otto Warburg |
Scientist |
8-Oct-1883 |
1-Aug-1970 |
Effect of oxygen on cancer |
| J. Robin Warren |
Doctor |
11-Jun-1937 |
|
H. pylori bacteria causes ulcers |
| August von Wassermann |
Biologist |
21-Feb-1866 |
16-Mar-1925 |
Syphilis test |
| Thomas B. Welch |
Business |
31-Dec-1825 |
29-Dec-1903 |
Grape juice magnate |
| Thomas H. Weller |
Scientist |
15-Jun-1915 |
23-Aug-2008 |
Cultured the polio virus |
| J. Taylor Wharton |
Doctor |
c. 1938 |
|
Gynecological oncologist |
| George H. Whipple |
Scientist |
28-Aug-1878 |
2-Feb-1976 |
Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver |
| Johannes Wier |
Doctor |
1515 |
24-Feb-1588 |
First modern physician |
| Torsten N. Wiesel |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1924 |
|
Neurophysiology of vision |
| Robert Willan |
Doctor |
12-Nov-1757 |
17-Apr-1812 |
Dermatologist, On cutaneous diseases |
| Michael B. Wood |
Doctor |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of the Mayo Foundation, 1999-2003 |
| Thomas Young |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1773 |
10-May-1829 |
Wave Theory of Light |
| Mammen Zachariah |
Doctor |
c. 1948 |
|
Cardiologist |
| Zachariah P. Zachariah |
Doctor |
? |
|
Cardiologist |
| Rolf M. Zinkernagel |
Scientist |
6-Jan-1944 |
|
T-cells and antigens |
| Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |
