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Abraham Jacobi
Abraham Jacobi (1830–1919) was a German-born American physician, a political refugee of 1848, known as the father of American pediatrics for founding its first chair, clinic, and societies.
Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese, born 1955 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is an American physician and professor at Stanford known for the bestseller Cutting for Stone and for advocating the physical examination.
Al-Zahrawi
Al-Zahrawi (Albucasis, 936–1013), Andalusian surgeon of Córdoba, author of the 30-volume Kitab al-Tasrif; its illustrated 30th volume depicts over 200 surgical instruments and influenced European surgery for five centuries.
Alberto Granado
Alberto Granado Jiménez (1922–2011), Argentine biochemist and Che Guevara's companion on the 1951–52 La Poderosa II motorcycle journey across South America; later a Cuban medical educator, genetics researcher, and author of Traveling with Che Guevara.
Anandi Gopal Joshi (आनंदीबाई गोपाळराव जोशी)
Anandi Gopal Joshi (आनंदीबाई गोपाळराव जोशी, 1865–1887), also Anandibai Joshee, first Indian woman to earn a Western medicine MD (Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1886); died of tuberculosis before practicing.
Andrew Weil
Andrew Weil, American Harvard-trained physician, author, and founder of the Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine; coined "integrative medicine," wrote Spontaneous Healing and Healthy Aging, advocates an anti-inflammatory diet, and is criticized for rejecting randomized-trial evidence standards.
Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande, American endocrine surgeon, New Yorker writer, and Harvard professor; led the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, wrote Complications and Being Mortal, co-founded Ariadne Labs and Lifebox, and served as USAID global health assistant administrator.
Axel Munthe
Axel Munthe (1857–1949) was a Swedish physician and psychiatrist who practiced in Paris, Rome, and Capri and wrote the bestselling 1929 memoir The Story of San Michele.
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush (1745–1813), American physician, Declaration of Independence signer, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania; father of American psychiatry, notorious for depletion therapy (calomel, jalap, bloodletting) in the 1793 yellow fever epidemic.
Bernard Lewinsky
Bernard Salomon Lewinsky, Los Angeles radiation oncologist and father of Monica Lewinsky; developed the first freestanding radiation therapy clinics in Los Angeles and co-founded the American Brachytherapy Society's predecessor.
Bidhan Chandra Roy (বিধান চন্দ্র রায়)
Bidhan Chandra Roy (বিধান চন্দ্র রায়) was an Indian physician, educator, and politician who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1948 until his death in 1962.
Carl Kupfer
Carl Kupfer (1928–2011) was an American ophthalmologist and the first director of the National Eye Institute, serving from 1970 to 2000 as its budget grew from $24 million to over $450 million.
Carol M. Black
Dame Carol Black is a British rheumatologist and international expert on scleroderma who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians from 2002 to 2006.
Cecil Belfield Clarke
Cecil Belfield Clarke (1894–1970) was a Barbados-born physician who ran a general practice at Elephant and Castle, London, for 45 years and co-founded the League of Coloured Peoples in 1931.
Charles C. Sprague
Charles C. Sprague, also known as Charles Cameron Sprague, was an American hematologist and the first President of UT Southwestern Medical Center, serving from 1972 to 1986.
Charles Clayton Dennie
Charles Clayton Dennie (1883–1971) was an American dermatologist and syphilologist in Kansas City, Missouri, who founded one of the first free clinics for congenital syphilis and gave his name to the Dennie-Morgan fold and Dennie-Marfan syndrome.
Chris van Tulleken
Chris van Tulleken is a British infectious diseases doctor, University College London academic, and BBC science presenter who co-hosts Operation Ouch! with his twin brother Xand and wrote Ultra-Processed People.
Christian Jessen
Christian Spencer Jessen, British doctor and TV presenter known for Channel 4's Embarrassing Bodies and Supersize vs Superskinny; sexual health physician ordered in 2021 to pay Arlene Foster £125,000 libel damages over a tweet.
Christopher Duntsch
Christopher Duntsch, an American former neurosurgeon who practiced in Dallas-Fort Worth from 2010 to 2013, was convicted in 2017 for deliberately inflicting grave harm on patients.
Conrad Murray
Conrad Murray, Grenadian-born former cardiologist and Michael Jackson's personal physician on the This Is It tour; convicted of involuntary manslaughter November 7, 2011 for administering propofol as a sleep aid; served two years of a four-year sentence, released 2013.
Constantine the African
Constantine the African (Constantinus Africanus, d. by 1098/9), North African monk of Monte Cassino who translated Arabic medical works into Latin, including the Pantegni from al-Majusi's Kitab al-Malaki and the Viaticum from Ibn al-Jazzar, founding Latin medieval medicine.
Deborah E. Powell
Deborah E. Powell, also known as Deborah Elizabeth Powell, was an American academic pathologist who served as Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School from 2002 to 2009.
Doctor Mike (Михаил Варшавский)
Doctor Mike, Mikhail Varshavski (Михаил Варшавский), is a Russian-born American board-certified family medicine physician and the most-followed doctor on social media, with over 30 million followers, a YouTube channel launched in 2017, and The Checkup podcast.
Douglas T. Prehn
Douglas T. Prehn, also known as Douglas Theodore Prehn, was an American United States Navy urologist who described Prehn's sign, used to distinguish testicular torsion from epididymitis.
Dr. Warfvinge
Dr. Warfvinge (Frans Wilhelm Warfvinge, 1834–1908) was a Swedish physician who directed Sabbatsberg Hospital in Stockholm and urged pernicious anemia patients to eat large quantities of meat.
Drew Pinsky
Drew Pinsky, known publicly as Dr. Drew, is an American physician board-certified in internal medicine and addiction medicine who hosted the nationally syndicated radio show Loveline for 32 years and the VH1 series Celebrity Rehab.
Dwight L. Wilbur
Dwight Locke Wilbur (1903–1997) was an American gastroenterologist in San Francisco and Stanford clinical professor who, as American Medical Association president from 1968 to 1969, helped ease its opposition to Medicare.
E. Harvey Estes Jr.
E. Harvey Estes Jr. (1925–2025) was an American cardiologist at Duke University who chaired its Department of Community Health Sciences and built the physician assistant profession's curriculum, certification, and legal footing.
Eben Alexander (author)
Eben Alexander III (born 1953) is an American neurosurgeon and author of Proof of Heaven (2012), a #1 New York Times bestseller about his 2008 near-death experience during an E. coli meningitis coma; his consciousness claims are contested by neuroscientists.
Eduard Bloch
Eduard Bloch (1872–1945), Austrian Jewish physician and Hitler's family doctor in Linz; treated Klara Hitler's breast cancer, was protected by Hitler as his 'Edeljude', and emigrated to New York in 1941.