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 +This is a list of famous [[physician]]s in history:
 +
 +== Physicians famous for their role in advancement of medicine ==
 +* [[William Osler Abbott]] (1902–1943) — co-developed the Miller-Abbott tube
 +* [[Mason Andrews]] (1919–2006) — delivered America's first [[in vitro]] baby; president of the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society
 +* [[Virginia Apgar]] (1909–1974) — [[anesthesiologist]] who devised the [[Apgar score]] used after [[childbirth]]
 +* [[William Stewart Agras]] — feeding behavior
 +* [[Jean Astruc]] (1684–1766) — wrote one of the first treatises on [[syphilis]]
 +* [[Averroës]] (1126–1198)
 +* [[Avicenna]] (980–1037) — Persian physician
 +* [[Gerbrand Bakker]] (1771-1828) — Dutch physician, with works in Dutch and Latin on: midwifery, practical surgery, animal magnetism, worms, the human eye, comparative anatomy, and the anatomy of the brain
 +* [[Frederick Banting]] (1891–1941) — isolated [[insulin]]
 +* [[Christiaan Barnard]] (1922–2001) — performed first [[heart transplant]]
 +* [[Charles Herbert Best|Charles Best]] (1899–1978) — assisted in the discovery of [[insulin]]
 +* [[Norman Bethune]] (1890–1939) — developer of battlefield surgical techniques
 +* [[Theodor Billroth]] (1829–1894) — father of modern abdominal surgery
 +* [[Alfred Blalock]] (1899–1964) — most noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and the development of the [[Blalock-Taussig Shunt]], surgical relief of the cyanosis from [[Tetralogy of Fallot]]—known commonly as the [[blue baby syndrome]]—with his assistant [[Vivien Thomas]] and [[pediatric]] [[cardiologist]] [[Helen Taussig]]
 +* [[Charaka]] — Indian physician
 +* [[Jean-Martin Charcot]] (1825–1893) — pioneering [[neurologist]]
 +* [[Guy de Chauliac]] (1290–1368) — one of the first physicians to have an experimental approach towards medicine; also recorded the [[Black Death]]
 +* [[Harvey Cushing]] (1869–1939) - American neurosurgeon and the father of modern day brain surgery.
 +* [[Charles R. Drew]] (1904–1950) — [[blood transfusion]] pioneer
 +* [[Helen Flanders Dunbar]] (1902–1959) — important early figure in U.S. [[Psychosomatic illness|psychosomatic medicine]].
 +* [[Galen]] (129 – c. 210) — Roman physician and anatomist
 +* [[Garcia de Orta]] (1501–1568) — revealed herbal medicines of India, described Cholera
 +* [[Christiaan Eijkman]] (1858–1930) — [[pathologist]], studied [[beriberi]]
 +* [[Pierre Fauchard]] — father of dentistry
 +* [[Girolamo Fracastoro]] (1478–1553) — wrote on [[syphilis]], forerunner of germ theory
 +* [[Sigmund Freud]] (1856–1939) — founder of [[psychoanalysis]]
 +* [[Daniel Carleton Gajdusek]] (born 1923) — studied [[Kuru (disease)|Kuru]], Nobel prize winner
 +* [[Henry Gray]] (1827–1861) — English anatomist and surgeon, creator of [[Gray's Anatomy]]
 +* [[William Harvey]] (1578–1657) — English physician, described the [[circulatory system]]
 +* [[Ernst Haeckel]] (1834–1919) — physician and anatomist
 +* [[Henry Heimlich]] (born 1920) — inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver and the Vietnam War era Chest Drain Valve
 +* [[Orvan Hess]] (1906–2002) — [[fetal heart monitor]] and first successful use of [[penicillin]]
 +* [[John Hunter (surgeon)|John Hunter]] (1728–1793) — Father of modern surgery, famous for his study of Anatomy
 +* [[Hippocrates]] (c. 460–370 BCE) — Greek father of medicine
 +* [[Elliott P. Joslin]] (1869–1962) — pioneer in the treatment of [[diabetes]]
 +* [[Edward Jenner]] (1749–1823) — English physician popularized [[vaccination]]
 +* [[Carl Jung]] (1875–1961) — Swiss psychiatrist
 +* [[Leo Kanner]] (1894–1981) — Austrian-American psychiatrist known for work on autism
 +* [[Seymour Kety]] (1915–2000) — influential American neuroscientist
 +* [[Robert Koch]] (1843–1910) — formulated Koch's postulates
 +* [[Theodor Kocher]] — thyroid surgery and first surgeon to win the [[Nobel Prize]]
 +* [[Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec]] (1781–1826) — inventor of the [[stethoscope]]
 +* [[Janet Lane-Claypon]] (1877–1967) — pioneer of [[epidemiology]]
 +* [[Thomas Linacre]] (1460–1524) - founder of [[Royal College of Physicians]]
 +* [[Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister|Joseph Lister]] (1827–1912) — pioneer of antiseptic surgery
 +* [[Richard Lower (physician)|Richard Lower]] (1631–1691) — studied the lungs and heart, and performed the first blood transfusion
 +* [[Paul Loye]] (1861–1890) — studied the nervous system and decapitation
 +* [[Amato Lusitano]] (1511–1568) — discovered venous valves, studied blood circulation
 +* [[Madhav]] (8th century A.D.) — medical text author and systematizer
 +* [[Maimonides]] (1135–1204)
 +* [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694) — Italian anatomist, pioneer in [[histology]]
 +* [[Otto Fritz Meyerhof]] (1884–1951) — studied muscle metabolism (Nobel prize)
 +* [[George Richards Minot]] (1885–1950) — Nobel prize for his study of [[anemia]]
 +* [[Charles Horace Mayo]] (1865–1939) — co-founder, [[Mayo Clinic]]
 +* [[William James Mayo]] (1861–1939) — co-founder, Mayo Clinic
 +* [[William Worrall Mayo]] (1819–1911) — co-founder, Mayo Clinic
 +* [[Frederic E. Mohs]] (1910–2002) — responsible for the method of surgery now called [[Mohs surgery]]
 +* [[Dr Richard Morton|Richard Morton]] (1637–1698) — identified [[Tubercle (anatomy)|tubercles]] in consumption (phthisis) of lungs; basis for modern name [[tuberculosis]]
 +* [[Egas Moniz]] (1874–1955) — developed Lobotomy and brain artery angiography.
 +* [[William McBride (doctor)|William McBride]] — discovered teratogenicity of thalidomide
 +* [[Herbert Needleman]] — scientifically established link between [[lead poisoning]] and neurological damage; key figure in successful efforts to limit lead exposure
 +* [[Charles Jean Henri Nicolle]] (1866–1936) — microbiologist who won Nobel prize for work on [[typhus]]
 +* [[Gary Onik]] — inventor and pioneer of ultrasound guided cryosurgery for both the prostate and the liver
 +* [[William Osler]] (1849–1919) — called the "father of modern medicine"
 +* [[Ralph Paffenbarger]] — conducted classic studies demonstrating conclusively that active people reduce their risk of [[heart disease]] and live longer
 +* [[Paracelsus]] (1493–1541)
 +* [[Ambroise Paré]] (1510–1590) — advanced surgical wound treatment
 +* [[Wilder Penfield]] (1891–1976) — pioneer in [[neurology]]
 +* [[Joseph Ransohoff]] (1915–2001) — [[neurosurgeon]] who invented the modern technique for removing brain tumors
 +*Sir [[William Refshauge]] (1913–2009) — renowned [[Australia]]n public health administrator
 +* [[Rhazes]] (c. 854 – 925) ([[Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi]])
 +* [[Juan Rosai]] (born 1940) - advanced [[surgical pathology]] and discovered the [[desmoplastic small round cell tumor]] and [[Rosai–Dorfman disease]]
 +* [[Jonas Salk]] (1914–1995) — developed a vaccine for [[polio]]
 +* [[Lall Sawh]] (born 1951) — Trinidadian surgeon/urologist and pioneer of kidney transplantation in the Caribbean
 +* [[Ignaz Semmelweis]] (1818–1865) — a pioneer of avoiding cross-infection — introduced hand washing and instrument cleaning
 +* [[John Snow (physician)|John Snow]] (1813–1858) — anaesthetist and pioneer epidemiologist who studied [[cholera]]
 +* [[Andrew Taylor Still]] (1828–1917) — father of osteopathic medicine
 +* [[Susruta]] (c. 500 BCE) — Indian physician and pioneering [[surgeon]]
 +* [[Thomas Sydenham]] (1642–1689) — clinician
 +* [[James Mourilyan Tanner]] (born 1920) — developed [[Tanner stages]] and advanced auxology
 +* [[Helen B. Taussig]] (1898–1986) — founded field of pediatric cardiology, worked to prevent thalidomide marketing in the US
 +* [[Carlo Urbani]] (1956–2003) — discovered, and died from, [[SARS]]
 +* [[Andreas Vesalius]] (1514–1564) — Belgian anatomist, often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy
 +* [[Vidus Vidius]] (1508–1569) — first professor of medicine at the College Royal and author of medical texts
 +* [[Rudolf Virchow]] (1821–1902) — German pathologist, founder of fields of comparative pathology, cellular pathology
 +* [[Carl Warburg]] (1805–1892) — German/British physician and clinical pharmacologist, inventor of [[Warburg's Tincture]] a famed antipyretic and antimalarial medicine of the Victorian era.
 +* [[Allen Whipple|Allen Oldfather Whipple]] (1881–1963) — devised the [[Whipple procedure]] in 1935 for treatment of [[pancreatic cancer]]
 +* [[Priscilla White (physician)|Priscilla White]] — developed classification of [[diabetes mellitus and pregnancy]] to assess and reduce the risk of [[miscarriage]], [[birth defect]], [[stillbirth]], and [[maternal death]]
 +* [[Carl Wood]] — in vitro fertilization
 +* [[Olaus Wormius|Ole Wormius]] (1588–1654) — pioneer in embryology
 +* [[Sir Magdi Yacoub]] (born 1935) — one of the leading developers of the techniques of heart and [[heart-lung transplant]]ation
 +* [[Boris Yegorov]] (1937–1994) — first physician in space (1964)
 +
 +== Physicians famous chiefly as eponyms ==
 +''See also [[Medical eponyms]]''
 +
 +Among the better known [[eponym]]s:
 +
 +* [[Thomas Addison]] (1793–1860) - [[Addison's disease]]
 +* [[Alois Alzheimer]] (1864–1915) - [[Alzheimer's disease]]
 +* [[Adalberto D. Arroyo]] (born 1970) - [[Ramos-Arroyo syndrome]]
 +* [[Hans Asperger]] (1906–1980) — [[Asperger syndrome]]
 +* [[Albert Calmette]] (1863–1933)- [[Bacillus Calmette-Guérin]] (BCG), a [[vaccine]] for [[tuberculosis]]
 +* [[Carlos Chagas]] (1879–1934) - [[Chagas disease]]
 +* [[Jean-Martin Charcot]] (1825–1893) - ''[[Motor Neurone Disease|Maladie de Charcot]]'', [[Charcot joints]], [[Charcot's triad]], [[Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease]]
 +* [[Jerome W. Conn]] (1907–1981) - [[Conn's Syndrome]] (primary hyperaldosteronism)
 +* [[Burrill Bernard Crohn]] (1884–1983) - [[Crohn's disease]]
 +* [[Camillo Golgi]] (1843–1926) - [[Golgi apparatus]]
 +* [[Joseph-Ignace Guillotin]] (1738–1814) - [[Guillotine]]
 +* [[Wilhelm Frederick von Ludwig]] (1790–1865) - [[Ludwig's angina]]
 +* [[Charles Mantoux]] (1877–1947) - [[Mantoux test]] for [[tuberculosis]]
 +* [[Antoine Marfan]] (1858–1942) - [[Marfan syndrome]]
 +* [[Silas Weir Mitchell]] (1829–1914) - [[Mitchell's disease]]
 +* [[James Paget]] (1814–1899) - [[Paget's disease]]
 +* [[James Parkinson]] (1755–1824) - [[Parkinson's syndrome]]
 +* [[Juan Rosai]] (born 1940) - [[Rosai–Dorfman disease]]
 +* [[Karl Adolph von Basedow]] - [[Basedow disease]]
 +* [[Paul Broca]] - [[Broca's area]]
 +* [[David Bruce]] - [[Brucellosis]]
 +* [[Denis Parsons Burkitt]] - [[Burkitt lymphoma]]
 +* [[Harvey Cushing]] - [[Cushing's disease]]
 +* [[John Langdon Down]] - [[Down syndrome]]
 +* [[Bartolomeo Eustachi]] - [[Eustachian tube]]
 +* [[Gabriele Falloppio]] - [[Fallopian tube]]
 +* [[Ernst Gräfenberg]] - [[Gräfenberg spot]] (G-spot)
 +* [[Gerhard Armauer Hansen]] - [[Hansen's disease]]
 +*[[Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson]] - [[Wilson's disease]]
 +* [[Thomas Hodgkin]] - [[Hodgkin's disease]]
 +* [[George Huntington]] - [[Huntington's disease]]
 +* [[Moritz Kaposi]] - [[Kaposi sarcoma]]
 +* [[Daniel Elmer Salmon]] - [[Salmonella]]
 +* [[Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette]] - [[Tourette syndrome]]
 +* [[Gunnar B. Stickler]] - [[Stickler syndrome]]
 +* [[Hulusi Behçet]] - [[Behçet's disease]]
 +
 +== Physicians famous as criminals ==
 +* [[John Bodkin Adams|Dr John Bodkin Adams]] - suspected British [[serial killer]], thought to have killed over 160 patients. Acquitted of one murder in 1957 but convicted of prescription fraud, not keeping a dangerous drug register, obstructing a police search and lying on cremation forms.
 +* [[Karl Brandt (Nazi physician)|Karl Brandt]] (1904–1948) - [[Nazi human experimentation]]
 +* [[Edme Castaing|Dr Edme Castaing]] - murderer
 +* [[George Chapman (murderer)|George Chapman]] - Polish poisoner and [[Jack the Ripper]] suspect
 +* [[Robert George Clements|Dr Robert George Clements]] - murderer
 +* [[Nigel Cox (doctor)|Dr Nigel Cox]] - only British doctor to be convicted of attempted [[euthanasia]]
 +* [[Thomas Neill Cream|Dr Thomas Neill Cream]] - murderer
 +* [[Baruch Goldstein]] (1956–1994) - assassin
 +* [[Linda Hazzard]] - convicted of murdering one patient but suspected of 12 in total
 +* [[H.H. Holmes|Dr H.H. Holmes]] - American serial killer
 +* [[Shirō Ishii]] - headed Japan's [[Unit 731]] during [[World War II]] which conducted [[human experimentation]] for weapons and medical research
 +* [[Radovan Karadžić]] (born 1945) - accused of [[ethnic cleansing]] in [[Yugoslavia]]
 +* [[Jack Kevorkian]] (born 1923) - convicted of second-degree murder, Michigan, April 13, 1999
 +* [[Jeffrey R. MacDonald|Dr Jeffrey MacDonald]] -murdered pregnant wife and two daughters in 1979
 +* [[Josef Mengele]] (1911–1979) - known as the Angel of Death, [[Nazi human experimentation]]
 +* [[Samuel Mudd]] (1833–1883) - condemned to prison for setting the leg of [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s assassin
 +* [[Herman Webster Mudgett]] (1860–1896) - American serial killer
 +* [[Arnfinn Nesset]] - Norwegian serial killer
 +* [[William Palmer (murderer)|Dr William Palmer]] - British poisoner
 +* [[Marcel Petiot|Dr Marcel Petiot]] - French serial killer
 +* [[Herta Oberheuser]] (1911–1978) - [[Nazi human experimentation]]
 +* [[Richard J. Schmidt]] - American physician who contaminated his girlfriend with AIDS-tainted blood
 +* [[Harold Shipman]] (1946–2004) - British serial killer
 +* [[Michael Swango]] (born 1953) - American serial killer
 +
 +== Physicians famous as writers ==
 +:''[[Physician writer]]''
 +Among the better known writers:
 +* [[Mikhail Bulgakov]] (1891–1940) - Russian novelist and playwright
 +* [[Anton Chekhov]] (1860–1904) - Russian playwright
 +* [[Khaled Hosseini]] (1965-) - American author, originally from Afghanistan, of hugely popular bestselling novels [[The Kite Runner]] and [[A Thousand Splendid Suns]]
 +* [[Robin Cook (novelist)|Robin Cook]] - American author of bestselling novels, wrote [[Coma (novel)|Coma]]
 +* [[Michael Crichton]] (1942–2008) - American author of ''[[Jurassic Park (novel)|Jurassic Park]]''
 +* [[A. J. Cronin]] (1896–1981) - Scottish novelist and essayist, author of [[The Citadel (novel)|The Citadel]]
 +* Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] (1859–1930) - British author of [[Sherlock Holmes]] fame
 +* [[Anthony Daniels]] (1949– ) - As 'Theodore Dalrymple' and under his own name, a British author, critic and social and cultural commentator
 +* [[John Keats]] (1795–1821) - English poet
 +* [[Morio Kita]] - Japanese novelist and essayist, son of [[Mokichi Saitō]]
 +* [[W. Somerset Maugham]] (1874–1965) - British novelist and short story writer, wrote [[Of Human Bondage]]
 +* [[Mori Ōgai]] - Japanese novelist, poet, and literary critic
 +* [[Alfred de Musset]] (1810–1857) - French playwright, discovered sign of [[syphilis|syphilitic]] [[aorta|aortitis]]
 +* [[Walker Percy]] (1916–1990)- American philosopher and writer
 +* [[François Rabelais]] (1483–1553) - French author of [[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]
 +* [[Mokichi Saitō]] - Japanese poet
 +* [[Friedrich von Schiller]] (1759–1805), German writer, poet, essayist and dramatist
 +* [[William Carlos Williams]] (1883–1963) - American poet and essayist
 +And others:
 +* [[Jafri Malin Abdullah]] - pioneer in [[Malaysia]]n postgraduate training in [[neurosurgery]] and [[neurosciences]]
 +* [[John Arbuthnot]] - author
 +* [[Patrick Abercromby]] (1656 – c. 1716) - historian
 +* [[Chris Adrian]] author
 +* [[Jacob M. Appel|Jacob Appel]] - short story writer
 +* [[Janet Asimov]] - (born 1926) (née Janet O. Jeppson). American psychiatrist, wife of [[Isaac Asimov]].
 +* [[Arnie Baker]] - cycling coach
 +* [[Sir Thomas Browne]] (1605–1682) - British writer
 +* [[Georg Büchner]] - German dramatist
 +* [[Ludwig Büchner]] - German philosopher
 +* [[Thomas Campion]] - poet, composer
 +* [[Ethan Canin]] - novelist, short story writer
 +* [[Deepak Chopra]] - Indian/American writer of [[self-help]] and health books
 +* [[Alex Comfort]] (1920–2000) - British writer and poet, author of [[The Joy of Sex]].
 +* [[Ctesias]] (5th century B.C.) - Greek historian
 +* [[Erasmus Darwin]] (1731–1802). British poet, grandfather of [[Charles Darwin]]
 +* [[Georges Duhamel]] (1884–1966) - French writer, dramatist, poet and humanist
 +* [[Havelock Ellis]] (1859–1940) - British writer and poet, author of [[The Psychology of Sex]]
 +* [[Victor Frankl]] (1905–1997) - Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, author of [[Man's Search for Meaning]]
 +* [[Samuel Garth]] (1661–1719) - British author and translator of classics
 +* [[Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman]] - Indian author and translator of classical manuscripts
 +* [[William Gilbert (author)|William Gilbert]] - British author and father of [[W. S. Gilbert]]
 +* [[Oliver Goldsmith]] - British author
 +* [[Atul Gawande]], surgeon and ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]'' medical writer.
 +* [[Richard Hooker (author)|Richard Hooker]] author of [[M*A*S*H (novels)|M*A*S*H]]
 +* [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]] (1809–1894) - American essayist
 +* [[Arthur Johnston (poet)|Arthur Johnston]] (1587–1641) - poet
 +* [[Dimitris P. Kraniotis]] - Greek poet
 +* [[Charles Krauthammer]] (1950- ) - American psychiatrist, syndicated political columnist
 +* [[R. D. Laing]] - Scottish writer and poet, leader of the [[anti-psychiatry]] movement.
 +* [[Stanisław Lem]] (1929–2006) - Polish author of science-fiction ([[Solaris (novel)|Solaris]])
 +* [[Carlo Levi]] (1902–1975) - Italian novelist and writer
 +* [[David Livingstone]] (1813–1873) - Scottish medical missionary, explorer of Africa, travel writer
 +* [[Adeline Yen Mah]] - Chinese-American author.
 +* [[Jean-Paul Marat]] (1743–1793) - French writer, a leader of [[French Revolution]], assassinated in bathtub
 +* [[Paolo Mantegazza]] (1831–1910) - Italian writer, wrote a science fiction book, ''[[L'Anno 3000]]''
 +* [[Silas Weir Mitchell]] (1829–1914) - American writer
 +* [[Mungo Park (explorer)|Mungo Park]]
 +* [[João Guimarães Rosa]] - Brazilian writer
 +*Sir [[Ronald Ross]] (1857–1932) - British writer and poet, discovered the [[malaria]]l parasite
 +* [[Theodore Isaac Rubin]] (born 1923). American author of [[David and Lisa]]
 +* [[Oliver Sacks]] (born 1933). British essayist (e.g. ''The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat'')
 +* [[Albert Schweitzer]] (1875–1965) - German charitative worker, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1952), theologian, philosopher, organist, musicologist
 +* [[Frank Slaughter]] (1908–2001) American bestseller author, wrote (''Doctor's Wives'')
 +* [[Tobias Smollett]] (1721–1771) - author
 +* [[Benjamin Spock]] (1903–1988) - American pediatrician, wrote ''[[Baby and Child Care]]''.
 +* [[Osamu Tezuka]] - Japanese Cartoonist and Animator. Considered the "father of [[anime]]".
 +* [[Lewis Thomas]] (1913–1993) - American essayist and poet
 +*Sir [[Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet|Henry Thompson]], British surgeon and [[polymath]].
 +* [[Vladislav Vančura]] (1891–1942) - Czech writer, [[screenwriter]] and [[film director]]
 +* [[Francis Brett Young]] (1884–1954) - English novelist and poet
 +* [[José Rizal]] (1861–1896) - Filipino novelist, scientist, linguist, and National Hero
 +
 +== Physicians famous as politicians ==
 +* [[Ibrahim Al-Jaafari]] - Prime minister of [[Iraq]]
 +* [[Iyad Allawi]] - interim Prime Minister of Iraq
 +* [[Salvador Allende]] (1908–1973) - Chilean president
 +* [[Emilio Alvarez Montalván]] - Foreign Minister of [[Nicaragua]]
 +* [[Arnulfo Arias]] - Panaman President
 +* [[Michelle Bachelet]] (born 1951) - Chilean president
 +* [[Hastings Kamuzu Banda]] (1898–1997) - Prime Minister, President and later dictator of [[Malawi]]
 +* [[Gro Harlem Brundtland]] (born 1939) - first [[Norway|Norwegian]] female prime minister and Director-General of the [[World Health Organization]]
 +* [[Margaret Chan]] - Director General of the [[WHO]] and former Director of Health of Hong Kong
 +* [[Chen Chi-mai]] - former mayor of [[Kaohsiung]], [[Taiwan]]
 +* [[York Chow]] - [[Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food]] of [[Hong Kong]]
 +* [[François Duvalier]] (1907–1971) - also known as Papa Doc - President and later dictator of [[Haiti]]
 +* [[Antônio Palocci Filho]] - Brazilian politician, Finance Minister
 +* [[Christian Friedrich, Baron Stockmar|Christian Friedrich, Baron von Stockmar]] - Anglo-Belgian statesman
 +* [[Bill Frist]] (born 1952) - [[United States Senate]] Republican [[Majority Leader]] from 2003 until his retirement in 2007
 +* [[Che Guevara]] Latin American revolutionary leader
 +* [[George Habash]] - founder of the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]]
 +* [[Mohammad Reza Khatami]] - Iranian politician
 +* [[Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira|Juscelino Kubitscheck]] - [[Brazil]]ian president
 +* [[Mahathir bin Mohamad]] - [[Malaysia]]n prime minister
 +* [[Agostinho Neto]] (1922–1979) - [[MPLA]] leader and president of [[Angola]]
 +* [[Navin Ramgoolam]] - Prime minister of [[Mauritius]]
 +* [[José Rizal]] (1861–1896) - Filipino revolutionary and national hero
 +* [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]] - Indian politician
 +* [[Hélio de Oliveira Santos]] - Brazilian politician, mayor of [[Campinas]]
 +* [[Tabaré Vázquez]] - Current Uruguayan President
 +* [[Sun Yat-Sen]] (1866–1925) - Founder of the [[Republic of China]]
 +* [[Ali Akbar Velayati]] (born 1945) - [[Iran]]ian [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Iran)|Foreign Minister]] from 1981 to 1997.
 +* [[William Walker (filibuster)|William Walker]] (1824–1860) - ruler of [[Nicaragua]]
 +* [[Yeoh Eng-kiong]] - former Secretary for Health and Welfare of Hong Kong
 +* [[Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy]] (8 July 1949 – 2 September 2009) - Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh
 +
 +=== Australia ===
 +* [[Bob Brown]] - parliamentary leader of the [[Australian Greens]]
 +* [[Brendon Nelson]] - [[Australia]]n politician
 +* [[Andrew Refshauge]] - [[Australia]]n politician
 +
 +=== Canada ===
 +* [[Frederick William Borden]] - [[Canadian]] MP and minister of the Militia
 +* [[Hedy Fry]] (born 1941) - Canadian politician, member of parliament
 +* [[Grant Hill (politician)|Grant Hill]] - former [[Canadian]] MP
 +* [[Wilbert Keon]] - [[Canadian]] senator
 +* [[Keith Martin (politician)|Keith Martin]] - [[Portuguese Canadian]] MP
 +* [[William McGuigan]] - mayor of [[Vancouver, British Columbia]]
 +* [[Théodore Robitaille]] - [[Lieutenant Governor of Quebec]], Quebec MNA and Senator
 +* [[Bette Stephenson]] - [[Ontario]] MPP and former Minister of Labour, Minister of Education and Minister of Colleges and Universities
 +* [[Donald Matheson Sutherland]] - MP and former minister of National Defence
 +* Sir [[Charles Tupper]] (1821–1915) - [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (1896) and [[Premier of Nova Scotia]] (1864–1867); High Commissioner in Great Britain (1884–1887)
 +
 +=== France ===
 +* [[Louis Auguste Blanqui]] - French revolutionary socialist
 +* [[Georges Clemenceau]] (1841–1929) - French statesman
 +* [[Jean-Paul Marat]] - French revolution leader
 +
 +=== Japan ===
 +* [[Tomoko Abe]] - [[House of Representatives of Japan|Representative of Japan]]
 +* [[Ichirō Kamoshita]] - [[House of Representatives of Japan|Representative of Japan]], former Environment Minister
 +* [[Taro Nakayama]] - former [[House of Representatives of Japan|Representative of Japan]], former Foreign Minister
 +* [[Chikara Sakaguchi]] - [[House of Representatives of Japan|Representative of Japan]], former Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
 +* [[Koichiro Shimizu]] - former [[House of Representatives of Japan|Representative of Japan]], one of [[Koizumi Children]]
 +* [[Tsutomu Tomioka]] - former [[House of Representatives of Japan|Representative of Japan]], one of [[Koizumi Children]]
 +
 +=== The Netherlands ===
 +* [[Frederik van Eeden]]
 +* [[J. Slauerhoff]]
 +* [[Simon Vestdijk]]
 +* [[Leo Vroman]]
 +* [[Rutger Kopland]]
 +
 +=== United Kingdom ===
 +* [[John Pope Hennessy]] - former [[Governor of Hong Kong]]
 +* [[David Owen]] - British politician
 +* [[Liam Fox]] - British [[Secretary of State for Defence]]
 +
 +=== United States ===
 +* [[Tom Coburn]] (born 1948) - [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]]
 +* [[Howard Dean]] (born 1948) - former [[Governor of Vermont]]
 +* [[Bill Frist]] (born 1952) - [[United States Senate Majority Leader]]
 +* [[Jim McDermott]] - [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Congressman]]
 +* [[Larry McDonald]] - [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Congressman]]
 +* [[Ron Paul]] (born 1935) - [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Congressman]]
 +* [[Rand Paul]] (born January 7, 1963) [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]]
 +* [[Dave Weldon]] - US congressman and [[autism]] activist
 +* [[Ray Lyman Wilbur]] (1875–1949) - [[United States Secretary of the Interior]], president of [[Stanford University]]
 +* [[Thomas Wynne]] (1627–1691) - Physician to [[William Penn]], speaker of the first two Provincial Assemblies in Philadelphia (1687 & 1688)
 +
 +== Physicians famous for their role in television and the media ==
 +
 +=== United Kingdom ===
 +* [[Christian Jessen]]
 +* [[Pixie McKenna]]
 +
 +=== United States ===
 +* [[Sanjay Gupta]]
 +* [[Mehmet Oz]]
 +
 +==Physicians famous for other activities==
 +<!-- Other activities means apart from being a physician: famous means extremely well known, however please add the reason for their fame -->
 +* [[Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (medieval writer)|Abd-el-latif]] &mdash; traveller
 +* [[Anderson Ruffin Abbott]]
 +* [[Jane Addams]] &mdash; social activist
 +* [[Georg Agricola]] &mdash; mineralologist
 +* [[David Alter]] &mdash; inventor
 +* [[Richard N. Ash MD|Richard N. Ash]] &mdash; Radio show host
 +* [[Oswald Avery]] (1877–1955) &mdash; molecular biologist who discovered [[DNA]] carried genetic information
 +* [[Ali Bacher]] &mdash; cricketer
 +* [[Josiah Bartlett]] &mdash; American statesman and chief justice of New Hampshire
 +* [[T. Romeyn Beck]] (1791–1855) &mdash; American [[forensic medicine]] pioneer
 +Ramon Betances-surgeon, PR nationalist
 +Oscar Biscet-human rights advocate
 +* [[Maximilian Bircher-Benner]] (1867–1939) &mdash; nutritionist
 +* [[Herman Boerhaave]] &mdash; humanist
 +* [[Alexander Borodin]] &mdash; composer
 +* [[Thomas Bowdler]] &mdash; censor
 +* [[Lafayette Bunnell]] &mdash; explorer of [[Yosemite Valley]]
 +* [[Roberto Canessa]] &mdash; survivor of [[Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571]], which crashed in the Andes Mountains in 1972.
 +* [[Gerolamo Cardano]] &mdash; mathematician
 +Alexis Carrell-transplant surgeon, eugenicist, Vichy sympathizer
 +* [[Ben Carson]] &mdash; Prominent African American Neurosurgeon
 +* [[John Caius]] (1510–1573) &mdash; physician and educator
 +* [[Graham Chapman]] &mdash; British comedian of [[Monty Python]] fame
 +* [[Laurel B. Clark]] (1961–2003) &mdash; American Astronaut, killed in the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster]]
 +* [[Sextus Empiricus]] (2nd&ndash;3rd century C.E.) &mdash; philosopher
 +* [[Giovanni Fontana (engineer)|Giovanni Fontana]] Venetian physician, engineer, and encyclopedist
 +* [[Luigi Galvani]] &mdash; physicist
 +* [[Pierre Gassendi]] (1592–1655) &mdash; philosopher
 +* [[William Gilbert (astronomer)|William Gilbert]] (1544–1603) &mdash; physicist
 +* [[Carl Goresky]] &mdash; physician and scientist
 +* [[Syed Ziaur Rahman]] &mdash; physician and medical scientist
 +* [[W. G. Grace]] &mdash; cricketer
 +* [[John Franklin Gray]] (1804–1881) was an American educator and the first practitioner of homoeopathy in the United States.
 +* [[Nehemiah Grew]] &mdash; botanist
 +* [[Samuel Hahnemann]] &mdash; founder of homeopathy
 +* [[Armand Hammer]] &mdash; entrepreneur
 +* [[Harry Hill]] &mdash; comedian
 +* [[Samuel Gridley Howe]] &mdash; abolitionist
 +* [[Hermann von Helmholtz]] &mdash; physicist
 +* [[Jan Baptist van Helmont]] (1577–1655) &mdash; physiologist
 +* [[Mae Jemison]] (born 1956) &mdash; astronaut
 +* [[Ken Jeong]] (born 1969)&mdash; actor & comedian
 +* [[Stuart Kauffman]] (born 1939) &mdash; biologist
 +* [[John Harvey Kellogg]] &mdash; cereal manufacture
 +* [[Charles Krauthammer]] (born 1950) &mdash; columnist and political commentator
 +* [[Cesare Lombroso]] (1835–1909) &mdash; based his system of [[criminology]] on [[physiognomy]]
 +* [[John Lovelock]] (1910–1949) &mdash; Olympic athlete
 +* [[John McAndrew]] (born 1927) &mdash; All-Ireland Gaelic Footballer
 +* [[June McCarroll]] &mdash; inventor of [[lane]] markings
 +* [[James McHenry]] (1753–1816) &mdash; signer of the [[United States Constitution]]
 +* [[Archibald Menzies]] &mdash; naturalist
 +* [[Franz Mesmer]] (1734–1815) &mdash; proponent of [[mesmerism]] and the idea of [[animal magnetism]]
 +* [[Jonathan Miller]] &mdash; television presenter and stage director
 +* [[Paul Möhring]] (1710–1792) &mdash; zoologist, botanist
 +* [[Maria Montessori]] &mdash; educator
 +* [[Boris V. Morukov]] &mdash; cosmonaut
 +* [[Lee Nelson|Lee "Final Table" Nelson]] &mdash; professional poker player
 +* [[Haing S. Ngor]] &mdash; Oscar winning film actor
 +* [[Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers]] (1758–1840) &mdash; astronomer
 +James Parkinson-physician, geologist, political activist
 +* [[Christian Hendrik Persoon]] &mdash; South African botanist
 +* [[Claude Perrault]] &mdash; architect
 +* [[Weston A. Price]] &mdash; traveler, educator
 +* [[Pope John XXI]] &mdash; pope
 +* [[John Ray]] &mdash; plant taxonomer
 +* [[Bradbury Robinson]] &mdash; threw the first legal [[forward pass]] in [[American football]] history while a medical student at [[St. Louis University]]
 +* [[Peter Mark Roget]] &mdash; English lexicographer
 +* [[Jacques Rogge]] &mdash; sports official
 +* [[Doreen Rosenstrauch]] &mdash; artist, athlete, humanist, scientist
 +* [[Mowaffak al-Rubaie]] &mdash; human rights advocate, member of the Interim Iraqi Governing Council
 +* [[Benjamin Rush]] &mdash; signer of the [[United States]] [[United States Constitution|Constitution]]
 +* [[Daniel Rutherford]] (1749–1819) &mdash; chemist
 +* [[Felix Savart]] &mdash; physicist
 +* [[Albert Schweitzer]] &mdash; humanist
 +* [[Michael Servetus]] (1511–1553) &mdash; burnt at the stake by [[Calvinism|Calvinists]] for [[heresy]]
 +* [[Rob Sitch]] &mdash; comedian
 +* [[Sócrates]] (born 1954, Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira) &mdash; Brazilian football (soccer) player
 +* [[James Hudson Taylor]] (1832–1905) &mdash; British [[missionary]] to [[China]] and founder of the [[China Inland Mission]]
 +* [[Norman Earl Thagard]] &mdash; astronaut
 +* [[Debi Thomas]] (born 1967) &mdash; Olympic figure skater
 +* [[William E. Thornton]] &mdash; astronaut
 +* [[Nasiruddin al-Tusi]] &mdash; astronomer
 +* [[William Walker (filibuster)|William Walker]] &mdash; Latin American adventurer
 +* [[Andrew Wakefield]] &mdash; conducted studies on disputed link between [[vaccine]]s and neurodevelopmental disorders, which had many serious consequences
 +* [[John Clarence Webster]] &mdash; Canadian historian
 +* [[Wilhelm Weinberg]] &mdash; with [[G.H. Hardy]], developed the [[Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium]] model of population genetics
 +* [[JPR Williams]] &mdash; rugby union player
 +Hugh Williamson-American patriot, statesman, Surgeon General of SC
 +* [[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]] &mdash; scientist
 +* [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]] &mdash; [[Al-Qaeda]] leader
 +
 +== See also ==
 +* [[List of fictional physicians]]
 +* [[List of psychiatrists]]
 +* [[List of famous figures in psychiatry|Famous figures in psychiatry]]
 +* [[List of fictional psychiatrists|Fictional psychiatrists]]
 +* [[List of Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians]]
 +
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