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.

Avraham Marek Klingberg
Israel
IsraelIsraeli epidemiologist, microbiologist and infectious disease specialist

Viktor Tsibulyak
Russia
RussiaDoctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation

Georges Gilles de la Tourette
France
FranceA French neurologist whose name became the eponym for Tourette syndrome, a type of neurological condition

Isaac Zhorov
Soviet medical scientist, surgeon

Egas Moniz
Portugal
PortugalPortuguese neuropathologist, neurosurgeon and public figure.

Linda Buck
USA
USANobel laureate

Gennady Kotelnikov
Russia
RussiaLaureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Government Prize of the Russian Federation, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Rector of the Samara State Medical University, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

Jacques Lacan
France
FranceFrench psychiatrist

Ilia Cion
Russia
RussiaA famous physiologist

Leila Denmark
USA
USAAmerican pediatrician

Sherburne Cook
USA
USAAmerican physiologist.

Muhtar Aliyev
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanSurgeon, Doctor of Medical Sciences

Aleksander Bogomolets
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet pathophysiologist and public figure

Richard Atkinson
USA
USAPsychologist, representative of cognitive psychology

Boris Gaidar
Russia
RussiaHonored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Head of the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Lieutenant General of the Medical Service

Archibald Hill
Great Britain
Great BritainNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1922, jointly with Otto Meyerhof

Peter Doherty
Australia
AustraliaAustralian veterinarian and scientist

Hippocrates
Greece
GreeceAncient Greek doctor

Pierre Dukan
France
FranceFrench physician, author of the Dukan Diet

Georg Heinrich Peter Krukenberg
Germany
GermanyGerman gynecologist and physiologist.

Erica Frank
USA
USAAmerican-born innovator, physician and medical researcher

Gerhard Steenkamp
Veterinary dentist

Rudolf Kronlein
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSurgeon

Karlos Huan Finley
Cuba
CubaDoctor and health organizer in Cuba

Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum
Germany
GermanyGerman psychiatrist

Alfred Eisenstaedt
USA
USAGerman-American photographer

Sergio Canavero
Italy
ItalyItalian transplant surgeon

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

Henry Norman Bethune
Canada
CanadaCanadian surgeon, innovator in surgery

Johann Bernhard Aloys von Gudden
Germany
GermanyGerman psychiatrist

Herta Oberheuser
Germany
GermanyNazi doctor

Adolf Kussmaul
Germany
GermanyGerman therapist.

Gabriello Fallopio
Italy
ItalyItalian anatomist and physician.

Ioan Milanskiy
Italy
Italy12th century Italian physician

Timothy Jorden
USA
USAAmerican surgeon suspected of murder

Irina Abelskaya
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian pediatrician and endocrinologist

Leonid Vasilyev
Russian psychophysiologist, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.

Alfred Adler
Austria
AustriaAustrian psychiatrist and psychologist

Lev Zmeev
Doctor and bibliographer, court councilor, assistant professor at the medical academy

Andrey Lichko
Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

Donald Cameron
USA
USAAmerican psychiatrist

Silvano Arieti
USA
USAAmerican psychiatrist

Christian Eijkman
Netherlands
NetherlandsNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1929, jointly with Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Renato Dulbecco
USA
USAItalian and American virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975

Vardges Davtyan
USA
USASoviet and Armenian psychiatrist, prose writer, publicist

Georgiy Angelian
Armenia
ArmeniaSoviet and Armenian doctor, anesthesiologist-resuscitator

Walter Dandy
USA
USAAmerican neurosurgeon and scientist

Petrus Camper
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch anatomist

Jack Kevorkian
USA
USAAmerican doctor, popularizer of euthanasia

Joseph Lister
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish surgeon who introduced antiseptics into practice