Medicine
Discover renowned medical professionals who have made significant contributions to the field of medicine. Explore biographies of famous doctors, surgeons, scientists, and other notable figures who have revolutionized healthcare and inspired generations.

Washington Sheffield
USA
USAAmerican dental surgeon and inventor

Irina Abelskaya
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian pediatrician and endocrinologist

Max Gybergric
Ukraine
UkraineRussian and Ukrainian Soviet medical scientist

John Down
Great Britain
Great BritainThe scientist who first described Down syndrome and called it "mongolism"

Erika Schwartz
Great Britain
Great BritainMD, Physician Supporting Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy

Sir Thomas Browne
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish physician, one of the greatest masters of English prose of the Baroque era, author of literary “experiments” on occult, religious and natural science topics

Johann Bernhard Aloys von Gudden
Germany
GermanyGerman psychiatrist

Esther Chapa
Mexico
MexicoMexican surgeon, educator, writer, trade unionist

Magnus Hirshfeld
Germany
GermanyGerman doctor of Jewish origin, sexologist

Oleg Vilenskiy
Israel
IsraelPsychiatrist, Doctor of Medical Sciences

Charles Robert Richet
France
FranceFrench physiologist and immunologist, Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1913)

Carolus Linnaeus
Sweden
SwedenSwedish naturalist, creator of the system of flora and fauna

Lev Vacker
USA
USASoviet and American psychologist

Rudiger Dohler
Gibraltar
GibraltarGerman orthopedist, surgeon and professor of medicine

Dickinson Richards Jr.
USA
USAAmerican cardiologist, awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Friedrich Mesmer
Germany
GermanyA healer who rediscovered and practically applied that magnetic fluid in man which was called animal magnetism, and since then mesmerism.

Georges Camuset
France
FranceFrench physician and writer

Sigmund Freud
Austria
AustriaAustrian psychiatrist and psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis

Yuriy Kulikovich
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian doctor, candidate of medical sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Vilen Astvatsatryan
Armenia
ArmeniaLaureate of the State Prize of the ASSR, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Armenian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

German Burgave
Netherlands
NetherlandsOne of the most famous doctors of the 18th century.

Leo Kanner
USA
USAAustrian-American psychiatrist

Johannes Muller
Germany
GermanyGerman naturalist, one of the founders of modern physiology, comparative anatomy and embryology.

Salom Barakayev
Tajikistan
TajikistanTajik professor, doctor of medical sciences

Todd Sacktor
USA
USAAmerican scientist, neurobiologist and neuropathologist.

Rosalind Franklin
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish biophysicist and radiographer, studied the structure of DNA.

Max Sanger
Germany
GermanyGerman physician, obstetrician and gynecologist

Vladimir Mironov
Russia
RussiaDoctor of alternative medicine

Vladimir Haffkine
Great Britain
Great BritainMicrobiologist, creator of the first vaccines against plague and cholera.

Milton Erickson
USA
USAAmerican psychiatrist, master of medical hypnosis

Antoine-Barthelemy Clot
France
FranceFrench doctor who established medical practice in Egypt

Ludwig Binswanger
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss psychiatrist and philosopher

Walter Bradford Cannon
USA
USAAmerican psychophysiologist, physiologist

Korbinian Brodmann
Germany
GermanyGerman neurologist

William H. Dobelle
USA
USAAmerican biomedical researcher

Victor Gavura
Ukraine
UkraineInfectious disease specialist, epidemiologist

Edward Donnall Thomas
USA
USAAmerican doctor

Daniel Palmer
USA
USAFounder of modern chiropractic techniques

Hermann Becker-Freyseng
Germany
GermanyGerman medic, Luftwaffe staff doctor

Henry Dale
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish pharmacologist and physiologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 (together with O. Löwy) for the discovery of the role of acetylcholine in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses

Wiliam Harvey
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physician, scientist who laid the foundations of modern physiology and embryology

Emil Abderhalden
Switzerland
SwitzerlandFather of the Swiss physiologist Rudolf Abderhalden. Foreign Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1925.

Harold Katz
USA
USADentist and founder of The California Breath Clinics

Andrey Gulyaev
Soviet surgeon, teacher, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR

Leon Labbe
France
FranceFrench surgeon and politician.

Nikolay Lopatkin
Russia
RussiaRussian scientist in the field of urology, academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

Nikolay Burdenko
One of the founders of Russian neurosurgery

Nikolay Kasyan
Ukraine
UkraineOsteopathic doctor and chiropractor

Etienne-Jean Georget
France
FranceFrench psychiatrist

Thomas Story Kirkbride
USA
USAAmerican physician, founder of the Association of Superintendents