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
Washington Sheffield
USA
American dental surgeon and inventor
Irina Abelskaya
Irina Abelskaya
Belarus
Belarusian pediatrician and endocrinologist
Max Gybergric
Max Gybergric
Ukraine
Russian and Ukrainian Soviet medical scientist
John Down
John Down
Great Britain
The scientist who first described Down syndrome and called it "mongolism"
Erika Schwartz
Erika Schwartz
Great Britain
MD, Physician Supporting Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
Sir Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Browne
Great Britain
British 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
Johann Bernhard Aloys von Gudden
Germany
German psychiatrist
Esther Chapa
Esther Chapa
Mexico
Mexican surgeon, educator, writer, trade unionist
Magnus Hirshfeld
Magnus Hirshfeld
Germany
German doctor of Jewish origin, sexologist
Oleg Vilenskiy
Oleg Vilenskiy
Israel
Psychiatrist, Doctor of Medical Sciences
Charles Robert Richet
Charles Robert Richet
France
French physiologist and immunologist, Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1913)
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Sweden
Swedish naturalist, creator of the system of flora and fauna
Lev Vacker
Lev Vacker
USA
Soviet and American psychologist
Rudiger Dohler
Rudiger Dohler
Gibraltar
German orthopedist, surgeon and professor of medicine
Dickinson Richards  Jr.
Dickinson Richards Jr.
USA
American cardiologist, awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Friedrich Mesmer
Friedrich Mesmer
Germany
A healer who rediscovered and practically applied that magnetic fluid in man which was called animal magnetism, and since then mesmerism.
Georges Camuset
Georges Camuset
France
French physician and writer
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austria
Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis
Yuriy Kulikovich
Yuriy Kulikovich
Ukraine
Ukrainian doctor, candidate of medical sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Vilen Astvatsatryan
Vilen Astvatsatryan
Armenia
Laureate 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
German Burgave
Netherlands
One of the most famous doctors of the 18th century.
Leo Kanner
Leo Kanner
USA
Austrian-American psychiatrist
Johannes Muller
Johannes Muller
Germany
German naturalist, one of the founders of modern physiology, comparative anatomy and embryology.
Salom Barakayev
Salom Barakayev
Tajikistan
Tajik professor, doctor of medical sciences
Todd Sacktor
Todd Sacktor
USA
American scientist, neurobiologist and neuropathologist.
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin
Great Britain
English biophysicist and radiographer, studied the structure of DNA.
Max Sanger
Max Sanger
Germany
German physician, obstetrician and gynecologist
Vladimir Mironov
Vladimir Mironov
Russia
Doctor of alternative medicine
Vladimir Haffkine
Vladimir Haffkine
Great Britain
Microbiologist, creator of the first vaccines against plague and cholera.
Milton Erickson
Milton Erickson
USA
American psychiatrist, master of medical hypnosis
Antoine-Barthelemy Clot
Antoine-Barthelemy Clot
France
French doctor who established medical practice in Egypt
Ludwig Binswanger
Ludwig Binswanger
Switzerland
Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher
Walter Bradford Cannon
Walter Bradford Cannon
USA
American psychophysiologist, physiologist
Korbinian Brodmann
Korbinian Brodmann
Germany
German neurologist
William H. Dobelle
William H. Dobelle
USA
American biomedical researcher
Victor Gavura
Victor Gavura
Ukraine
Infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist
Edward Donnall Thomas
Edward Donnall Thomas
USA
American doctor
Daniel Palmer
Daniel Palmer
USA
Founder of modern chiropractic techniques
Hermann Becker-Freyseng
Hermann Becker-Freyseng
Germany
German medic, Luftwaffe staff doctor
Henry Dale
Henry Dale
Great Britain
English 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
Wiliam Harvey
Great Britain
English physician, scientist who laid the foundations of modern physiology and embryology
Emil Abderhalden
Emil Abderhalden
Switzerland
Father of the Swiss physiologist Rudolf Abderhalden. Foreign Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1925.
Harold Katz
Harold Katz
USA
Dentist and founder of The California Breath Clinics
Andrey Gulyaev
Andrey Gulyaev
Soviet surgeon, teacher, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR
Leon Labbe
Leon Labbe
France
French surgeon and politician.
Nikolay Lopatkin
Nikolay Lopatkin
Russia
Russian scientist in the field of urology, academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
Nikolay Burdenko
Nikolay Burdenko
One of the founders of Russian neurosurgery
Nikolay Kasyan
Nikolay Kasyan
Ukraine
Osteopathic doctor and chiropractor
Etienne-Jean Georget
Etienne-Jean Georget
France
French psychiatrist
Thomas Story Kirkbride
Thomas Story Kirkbride
USA
American physician, founder of the Association of Superintendents