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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.
Ferdinand Monoyer
Ferdinand Monoyer (1836–1912), French ophthalmologist of Strasbourg, Nancy, and Lyon; creator of the Monoyer eye chart, the 1875 decimal visual acuity notation, and the diopter unit, with his name hidden in the chart rows.
Frank A. Riddick Jr
Frank Adams Riddick Jr. (1931–2014) was an American endocrinologist and physician-executive who led the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans as CEO from 1975 to 1992.
Friedrich Ritter (physician)
Friedrich Ritter (1886–1934), German physician and psychosomatic specialist from Berlin, settled Floreana in the Galápagos with Dore Strauch in 1929; his Nietzschean utopia ended in the unsolved 1934 Galápagos Affair and his death, presumably botulism.
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.
George Tiller
George Tiller (1941-2009), Wichita, Kansas physician and medical director of Women's Health Care Services, one of few US providers of late-term abortions; survived a 1986 clinic bombing and 1993 shooting, was acquitted in 2009, then murdered by Scott Roeder.
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.
Howard Krein
Howard Krein is an American otolaryngologist and facial plastic surgeon, Professor at Thomas Jefferson University, director of the Herbert Kean Center for Facial Aesthetics, chief medical officer of StartUp Health, and son-in-law of Joe Biden through his marriage to Ashley Biden.
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 G. Nuckolls
James G. Nuckolls, known as James Garland Nuckolls, was an American general internist from Galax, Virginia, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1992.
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.
John A. Benson Jr.
John A. Benson Jr. (1921–2025) was an American gastroenterologist who led gastroenterology at OHSU and served 16 years as the first president of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
John H. Bryant
John H. Bryant, also known as John Harland Bryant or Jack Bryant, was an American physician who led the US delegation to the 1978 Alma-Ata primary health care conference.
John L.S. Holloman Jr.
John Lawrence Sullivan "Mike" Holloman Jr. (1919–2002) was an American physician and civil-rights activist who founded the Medical Committee for Human Rights and led New York City's public hospitals.
John R. Brinkley
John R. (Romulus/Richard) Brinkley, 1885-1942, American quack, the "goat gland doctor" of Milford, Kansas, radio pioneer behind KFKB and XERA, and two-time Kansas gubernatorial candidate.
John Radcliffe (physician, born 1650)
John Radcliffe (baptized 1650, died 1714), English physician and royal doctor to William III, Mary II, and Queen Anne, whose £140,000 estate endowed Oxford's Radcliffe Camera, Observatory, and Infirmary.