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.

Viktor Serov
Russia
RussiaLaureate of the Russian Government Prize, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

Petr Kovalenko
Russia
RussiaLaureate of the USSR State Prize, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honorary Citizen of the City of Rostov-on-Don

John Haldane
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish physiologist

Hans Selye
Canada
CanadaCanadian biologist, physiologist and psychologist. Formulated the concept of stress, introduced the concepts of adaptation syndrome, adaptation diseases, etc.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
USA
USAAmerican biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1937

Eduard Jenner
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish doctor who created the smallpox vaccine

Florence Nightingale
Great Britain
Great BritainNurse, organizer of the Nurses Award

Semen Pinskiy
Ukraine
UkraineSurgeon

Dennis Hoagland
USA
USAAmerican physiologist, botanist

Hermann Ludwig Cohn
Germany
GermanyGerman physician and ophthalmologist

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

John Abernethy
Great Britain
Great BritainIn 1787 John Abernethy was appointed assistant surgeon. While in this position, he began lecturing at his home near the hospital, and in time became the founder of St. Bartholomew's Medical School.

Dolores Cannon
USA
USAAmerican psychotherapist

Leland Clark
USA
USAAmerican biochemist

Christiaan Barnard
South African surgeon who performed the world's first heart transplant in 1969

Alexey Korzh
Ukraine
UkraineLaureate of the State Prize of the USSR, Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

John Robin Warren
Australia
AustraliaAustralian pathologist and scientist

Heinrich Agrippa
Germany
GermanyGerman occultist, theologian, astrologer and alchemist.

Washington Sheffield
USA
USAAmerican dental surgeon and inventor

Magnus Hirshfeld
Germany
GermanyGerman doctor of Jewish origin, sexologist

Mikhail Averbah
Russian and Soviet ophthalmologist, full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italy
ItalyItalian neurologist

Isaac Israel Hayes
USA
USAMedic, Arctic researcher

Heinrich Waldeyer
Germany
GermanyGerman anatomist and histologist.

Semen Iashinskij
Russia
RussiaSurgeon

Judah Folkman
USA
USAAmerican cytologist, oncologist.

Temirbolat Berezov
Russia
RussiaDoctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

Isaac Kraindel
Russian physician, doctor of medicine

Rashid Askerkhanov
Cardiologist surgeon, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences

Gagik Stamboltsyan
Armenia
ArmeniaArmenian doctor.

Ian Wallace
Qualified psychologist, popular presenter and best-selling author on the topic of dreams and psychology

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

Vladimir Mironov
Russia
RussiaDoctor of alternative medicine

Anry Labory
Vietnam
VietnamThe unrecognized genius of medicine

Paul Jacques Malouin
France
FranceFrench physician and chemist

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

Alexander Lowen
USA
USAAmerican psychotherapist

Christian Hahnemann
Germany
GermanyGerman physician, founder of homeopathy

Vitaliy Cordyume
Ukraine
UkraineMedical geneticist

Thomas Keith
Great Britain
Great BritainGynecologist.

Aleister Crowley
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish occultist, Kabbalist, poet, writer, artist and mountaineer

Andrey Lichko
Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

Albert Bandura
USA
USAPsychologist, author of social learning theory

Viktor Kalnberz
Latvia
LatviaHero of Socialist Labor, Honored Doctor of Latvia, Honored Scientist of Latvia, USSR State Prize Laureate, Latvian State Prize Laureate, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Doctor

Barry Marshall
Australia
AustraliaWinner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology 2005.

Semen Khecheenashvilli
Georgia
GeorgiaLenin Prize Laureate, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

Johann Blumenbach
Germany
GermanyA famous German anatomist, anthropologist and naturalist; doctor of medicine, professor.

John Snow
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physician who first used ether as an anesthetic

Nikolay Burdenko
One of the founders of Russian neurosurgery

Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum
Germany
GermanyGerman psychiatrist