- Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer, M.D., OM, (January 14, 1875 - September 4, 1965), was an Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaisersberg, Alsace-Lorraine (at that time part of the German Empire). After the Allies' victory in 1918, he asked for French nationality according to his Alsacian ancestries, and got it without trouble. Later, he challenged both the secular view of historical Jesus current at his time and the traditional Christian view, … - Mae Jemison
Essence Award, Essence magazine, 1988; named Gamma Sigma Gamma Woman of the Year,1990; honorary doctorate, Lincoln University 1991; Ebony Black Achievement Award, 1992; an alternative public school in Detroit was named The Mae C. Jemison Academy, 1992; Alpha Kappa Alpha, honorary member. By the time she was thirty-one, Mae Jemison had received a double major in Chemical Engineering and African-American studies and had served as a doctor in the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone. - John Radcliffe
John Radcliffe (1652-1714) was a British physician. A number of landmark buildings in Oxford, including the Radcliffe Camera, the Radcliffe Infirmary, and the Radcliffe Observatory were named after him. Radcliffe was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School. He graduated from Oxford University, where he was an exhibitioner at University College, to become a Fellow of Lincoln College. - John Arthur
John William Arthur, OBE, MD (born Glasgow, 1881, died Edinburgh, 1952) was a medical missionary and Church of Scotland minister who served in British East Africa (Kenya) from 1907 to 1937. He was known simply as "Doctor Arthur" to generations of Africans. - Robert Bell
Robert Bell FRSC MD (June 3, 1841- June 17, 1917) was a Canadian geologist, professor and civil servant. He is considered Canada’s greatest exploring scientist, having named over 3,000 geographical features. - Wilder Penfield
Dr Wilder Graves Penfield, OM, CC, CMG, MD, FRS (January 25/26, 1891 - April 5, 1976) was an American-born Canadian neurosurgeon. - Frederick Banting
Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, MD, FRSC (November 14, 1891 - February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discovers of insulin. Banting was born in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. After studying medicine at the University of Toronto and graduating in 1916, he served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War I. He won the Military Cross during the war. - Ric Charlesworth
Dr Richard "Ric" (or "Rick") Ian Charlesworth <small>AM</small> (born December 6 1952, Subiaco, Western Australia) is a sports and performance consultant and a former Australian cricketer and field hockey player and coach. He is a Doctor of Medicine. Charlesworth attended Christ Church Grammar School until he graduated in 1969. He then attended The University of Western Australia. - Robert Fludd
Robert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus (1574, Bearsted, Kent - September 8 1637, London) was a prominent English Paracelsian physicist, astrologer, and mystic. He was not a member of the Rosicrucians, as often alleged, but he defended their thoughts in the Apologia Compendiaria of 1616. He was the son of Sir Thomas Fludd, a high-ranking governmental official (Queen Elizabeth I's treasurer for war in Europe). - Paul David
Paul David, CC, GOQ, MD (December 25, 1919 - April 5, 1999) was a Canadian cardiologist, founder of the Montreal Heart Institute, and Senator. Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Louis-Athanase David and Antonia Nantel, he received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in 1939 and his MD from the Université de Montréal in 1944. - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (9 June 1836 - 17 December 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain. - Jack Kevorkian
Jack Kevorkian, M.D. (born May 20, some sources say May 26, 1928) is a controversial American pathologist. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan to Armenian-American parents. He is most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide and claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He has famously stated, "dying is not a crime." It was previously thought that his activities earned him the nickname of Dr. - James Naismith
James A. Naismith, B.A., M.A., M.D., D.D, (November 6, 1861 - November 28, 1939) was the inventor of the sport of basketball and the first to introduce the use of a helmet in American football. He was also the first basketball coach to assemble a team of 5 players. He was born in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada, the eldest son of Scottish immigrants who had arrived in the area in 1851 and worked in the mining industry. - Frank MacFarlane Burnet
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet OM, AK, KBE (3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985), usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology. Burnet received his M.D. from the University of Melbourne in 1924, and his PhD from the University of London in 1928. He went on to conduct pioneering research on bacteriophages and viruses at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, … - John Frank
John E. Frank (born April 17, 1962, in Pittsburgh) was an American football player who played tight end in the NFL from 1984 to 1988 and earned two Super Bowl rings. - Peter Parker
Peter Parker, M.D., (1804 - 1888) was an American physician and a missionary who traveled extensively in Qing Dynasty China. Parker was born in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1804 to an orthodox Congregational family. His parents were farmers. Parker received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1831, and his Doctor of Medicine from the Yale Medical School, then called Medical Institution of Yale College, in 1834. - Clemens von Pirquet
Clemens Peter Freiherr von Pirquet was an Austrian scientist and pediatrician best known for his contributions to the fields of bacteriology and immunology. Born in Vienna, he studied theology at the University of Innsbruck and philosophy at the University of Leuven before he enrolled at the University of Graz where he became a doctor of medicine in 1900. He started practicing at the Children's Clinic in Vienna. - Bryan Bergeron
Bryan Bergeron, MD, is an author of numerous books in the fields of medicine, computers, biotechnology, and business. He teaches in the HST Division of Harvard Medical School and MIT and is president of Archetype Technologies, Inc. - Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton (February 27,1869 - September 22,1970) was the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard Medical School and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health. She was a pioneer in the field of toxicology, studying occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and chemical compounds on the human body. Alice Hamilton was born in 1869 to Montgomery Hamilton and Gertrude Hamilton (nee Pond), in Fort Wayne, Indiana. - John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 - January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist, soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the battle of Ypres. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". - Joycelyn Elders
Minnie Joycelyn Elders, M.D., M.S., (born August 13, 1933) was the United States Surgeon General from September 8, 1993 to December 31, 1994, most famous for her outspokenness on sensitive issues of public health. - Hans Asperger
Hans Asperger was the Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome is named. - Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad (born September 14, 1936) is an American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was born in Whiting, Indiana to John Murad (born Xhabir Murat Ejupi), an Albanian and Henrietta Bowman, an American. He received his undergraduate degree from DePauw University in 1958 and MD and pharmacology Ph.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University in 1965, … - Joseph Collins
Joseph Collins (1866-1950) was an American neurologist, born in Brookfield, Conn. He received the degree of M.D. from New York University in 1888, and after some years of private practice took up the specialty of neurology; in 1907, he was made a professor of that subject in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School. He was later a co-founder and visiting physician to the New York Neurological Institute. In addition to his attainment as a practitioner of medicine, Dr. - Eric Thomas
Eric Jackson Thomas, born 24 March 1953 in Hartlepool, County Durham, is an academic who has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol since 2001. He is also the current chair of the Worldwide Universities Network. - Richard Bright
Richard Bright (September 281789 - December 161858) was an English physician and early pioneer in the research of kidney disease. He was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, the third son of Sarah and Richard Bright Sr., a wealthy merchant and banker. Bright Sr. shared his interest in science with his son, encouraging him to consider it as a career. In 1808, Bright Jr. joined the University of Edinburgh to study philosophy, economics and mathematics, … - Leo Kanner
Leo Kanner was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and physician known for his work related to autism. Kanner was born in Klekotow, Austria. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1913, his studies broken by service with the Austrian Army in World War I, finally receiving his MD in 1921. He emigrated to the United States in 1924 to take a position as an Assistant Physician at the State Hospital in Yankton County, South Dakota. - Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw, (February 14, 1847 - July 2, 1919) was a leading United States civil rights leader; a physician; and the first female Methodist minister in the United States (1880). She was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, but was brought to the United States as a small child. She studied at Albion College in Albion, Michigan, 1872-1875, graduated from the Boston University School of Theology in 1878, and received an M.D. from Boston University in 1885. - Margaret Chan
Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, OBE, JP, MSc., MD, MPH, FRCP (born 1947 in Hong Kong) is the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Chan was elected by the Executive Board of the WHO on 8 November 2006, and was endorsed in a special meeting of the World Health Assembly on the following day. Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994-2003), … - David Ho
David Da-i Ho (born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients with his team. - James Price
James Price was a British chemist and alchemist, who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When challenged to perform the conversion in front of credible witnesses he instead committed suicide by drinking prussic acid. - J. Michael Bishop
John Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936) is an American immunologist and microbiologist who won the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He currently serves as an active faculty member and chancellor at the University of California, San Francisco. Bishop was born in Pennsylvania. He attended Gettysburg College as an undergraduate, then earned an MD from Harvard University in 1962. - Joseph P. Kerwin
Joseph Peter Kerwin, M.D. (born February 19, 1932) is a physician and former NASA astronaut. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, he graduated from Fenwick High School, a private school in Oak Park, in 1949. He received a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1953; a Doctor of Medicine degree from Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, … - Peter A. Singer
Peter A. Singer, MD, MPH, FRCPC, is Senior Scientist and Co-Director of the Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network; Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto; and a Distinguished Investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. - Robert Atkins
Robert Coleman Atkins, MD (October 17, 1930 - April 17, 2003) was an American doctor and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Nutritional Approach (or "Atkins Diet"), a popular but controversial way of dieting that entails eating low-carbohydrate and high-protein foods, in addition to leaf vegetables and dietary supplements. Atkins graduated from the University of Michigan in 1951 and received a medical degree from Cornell Medical College in 1955, … - Norman Bethune
Dr. Henry Norman Bethune, MD (March 3, 1890 - November 12, 1939) was a Canadian physician, medical innovator, a member of the Communist Party of Canada, and humanitarian. In Chinese, he is known as "Bai Qiu-en" ([[:zh:白求恩 - Charles Robert Richet
Charles Robert Richet was a French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects, such as neuro-chemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing. He was named professor of Physiology at the Collège de France in 1887, and became a member of the Académie de Médecine in 1898. It was however his work on anaphylaxis (his term for the sometimes lethal reaction by a sensitised individual to a second, … - Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar , a medical doctor and Ph.D. in neurobiology, became the first Canadian woman astronaut and the world's first neurologist in space in 1992 on the International Microgravity Laboratory. She was elected to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame for her pioneering space medical research. - Matthias Rath
Matthias Rath, M.D. (born 1955 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a controversial German physician, health activist and vitamin entrepreneur. Dr. Rath studied medicine in Germany and subsequently worked as a scientist at the university hospital in Hamburg and the German Cardiac Center in Berlin. He was the head of Cardiovascular Research at the Linus Pauling Institute in Palo Alto, USA. Currently, he advocates the use of herbs and vitamins, which he sells, … - David Robertson
David Robertson (July 9 1841 - 1912) was an Ontario physician and political figure. He represented Halton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1879 to 1883 as a Liberal member. He was born in Esquesing Township, Halton County, Canada West in 1841, the son of Alexander Robertson, a Scottish immigrant. Robertson studied at McGill College and graduated with an M.D. in 1864. In 1867, he married Jennie S. Morse. He served four years as mayor of Milton.
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