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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), British-born physician, first woman to earn an M.D. from an American medical school (Geneva Medical College, 1849); founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children and its women's medical college, and was first woman on the British Medical Register.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) was an English physician, the first openly female recipient of a medical qualification in Britain in 1865, who founded the New Hospital for Women.
Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), English physician, poet, inventor, and Lunar Society founder; grandfather of Charles Darwin. Proposed evolution from 'one living filament' in Zoonomia (1794–96) and wrote The Botanic Garden; declined George III as patient.
Eugene A. Hildreth
Eugene A. Hildreth, known as "Pat", was an American internist and emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania who chaired the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Eva Andersson-Dubin
Eva Andersson-Dubin (Eva Birgitta Andersson), born 1961, Swedish-American internist, Miss Sweden 1980, founder of Mount Sinai's Dubin Breast Center, wife of Glenn Dubin, and former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein who testified in Maxwell's 2021 trial.
Farid Fata
Farid Fata, Lebanese-born Michigan hematologist-oncologist, owner of Michigan Hematology Oncology; misdiagnosed 553 patients with cancer, billed $34 million in fraudulent claims, sentenced in 2015 to 45 years in federal prison.
Galen (Γαληνός)
Galen (Γαληνός, Galēnos, 129–c. 200 CE), Greek physician of Pergamon, court doctor to Marcus Aurelius, systematized Hippocratic four-humor medicine, pioneered animal vivisection, and dominated European and Islamic medicine for about 1,300 years.
Geoffrey Edelsten
Geoffrey Walter Edelsten (1943-2021), Australian medical entrepreneur and former GP, founder of Preventicare and 1980s bulk-billing superclinics, first private owner of the Sydney Swans, later deregistered, jailed, and bankrupted.
George J. Hayes
George J. Hayes (George Joseph Hayes, 1918–2002) was a United States Army neurosurgeon who led neurosurgery at Walter Reed, trained 12 neurosurgeons, and retired in 1974 as a major general.
Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne (1806–1875), French neurologist, pioneer of localized faradization, facial-expression photography, the Duchenne smile, muscle biopsy trocar, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Harold J. Fallon
Harold J. Fallon (1931–2018) was an American hepatologist who chaired medicine at the Medical College of Virginia and led the landmark corticosteroid trial for alcoholic hepatitis.
Harry P. Cain II
Harry P. Cain II (1937–2023) was an American health policy scholar and executive, a National Academy of Medicine member who led Blue Cross and Blue Shield operations.
Henry Heimlich
Henry Heimlich, Cincinnati thoracic surgeon who invented the Heimlich maneuver (abdominal thrusts) for choking, published June 1974; later guidelines renamed it and added back blows first.
Hippocrates (Ἱπποκράτης)
Hippocrates (Ἱπποκράτης), Greek physician of Cos, c. 460–370 BC, called the Father of Medicine; name behind the Hippocratic Corpus of about 60–70 treatises and the Hippocratic Oath, though none of the works is reliably his.
James Andrews (physician)
James R. Andrews (born 1942) is a retired American orthopedic surgeon, Tommy John surgery specialist, and sports medicine pioneer who co-founded ASMI and the Andrews Institute and treated stars like Michael Jordan and Roger Clemens.
James Barry (surgeon)
James Barry, born Margaret Ann Bulkley, was a British Army surgeon who served 46 years across the Empire and in 1826 performed one of the first successful caesarean sections.
James W. Haviland
James W. Haviland (1911–2007) was an American internist and medical educator in Seattle who led the creation of the world's first community-supported outpatient kidney dialysis program in 1962.
James William Colbert Jr.
James William Colbert Jr., American physician and medical school dean at Yale, Saint Louis University, and NIH; first Vice President for Academic Affairs of MUSC (1969–1974); father of Stephen Colbert; died in 1974 plane crash.
Jan Garavaglia
Jan C. Garavaglia, 'Dr. G', American forensic pathologist and Chief Medical Examiner of Florida's District Nine (Orange-Osceola) from 2003; starred in Discovery's Dr. G: Medical Examiner; formerly Bexar County, Texas.