- Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra is an Indian medical doctor and writer. He has written extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine. He claims to be influenced by the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India, and quantum physics. He also said that he has been profoundly influenced by the teachings of J Krishnamurti.
- Tom Coburn
Thomas Allen "Tom" Coburn, M.D. (born March 14, 1948) is a medical doctor and a Republican U.S. Senator from Oklahoma. He is considering running for President in 2008.
- Zakir Naik
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (born October 18, 1965) is a Muslim Indian public speaker, debater of Konkani descent,, and writer on the subject of Islam and comparative religion. By profession, he is a medical doctor, attaining a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Maharashtra, but since 1991 he has focused on preaching Islam.
- Francis Collins
Francis S. Collins (born April 14, 1950), M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-geneticist, noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes, and his leadership of the Human Genome Project (HGP). He is director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). With Collins at the helm, the HGP has attained several milestones, while running ahead of schedule and under budget. A working draft of the human genome was announced in June 2000, …
- Antonia Novello
Vice Admiral Antonia Coello Novello M.D. (born Antonia Coello, August 23, 1944 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico), served as the United States Surgeon General from 1990 to 1993. Novello received her B.S. degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras in 1965 and her M.D. degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine at San Juan in 1970.
- William Harvey
William Harvey was an English medical doctor, who is credited with being the first to correctly describe, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. This developed the ideas of René Descartes who in his "Description of the Human Body" said that the arteries and veins were pipes which carried nourishment around the body.
- Mehmet Oz
Dr. Mehmet Oz (born June 11, 1960) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and author. Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Turkish parents, and was educated at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware, received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1982 and obtained a joint MD and MBA degree in 1986 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Wharton School. Oz is Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University.
- Mamphela Ramphele
Mamphela Aletta Ramphele (28 December 1947 -) is a South African academic, businesswoman and medical doctor and was an anti-apartheid activist. She is a current trustee on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.
- John Harvey Kellogg
John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 - December 14, 1943) was an American medical doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan who ran a sanitarium using holistic methods, with a particular focus on nutrition, enemas and exercise. Kellogg was an advocate of vegetarianism, and is best known for the invention of the corn flake breakfast cereal with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg.
- El Medico
Reynier Casamayor Griñán, known as El Medico, is a Cuban musician and doctor who is, as of 2005 enjoying success in Spain as a composer and performer of reggaetón music. He reached 10th place in the top 10 music sales charts of Spain with the song "Chupa-Chupa", recorded with Warner Music. El Medico was born and resides in Santiago de Cuba. He is one of the pioneers of the reggaetón music on Cuba.
- Richard Taylor
Richard Thomas Taylor MP MB BChir BA FRCP (born July 7, 1934) is an English doctor turned politician, Independent Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest.
- John Clarke
John Clarke (8 October, 1609- 20 April, 1676) was a medical doctor, Baptist minister, co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island and author of its charter, and a leading advocate of religious freedom in the Americas. Clarke was born at Westhorpe, Suffolk County, England on October 8, 1609, to Thomas and Rose (Kerrich) Clarke. He was one of eight children, six of whom came to America and settled in New England.
- Ewan Cameron
Ewan Cameron (July 31, 1922 - March 21, 1991) was a medical doctor born in Glasgow, Scotland who worked with Linus Pauling on Vitamin C research. He received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow in 1944, and immediately joined the British Army, where he served as a medical officer in Burma for three years. A gifted surgeon, Cameron worked as a Consultant Surgeon at Vale of Leven Hospital in the County of Dunbarton, Scotland, from 1956 to 1982, …
- Samuel Epstein
Doctor Samuel S. Epstein is a medical doctor and professor emeritus of environmental medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago who is perhaps best known for his contributions to environmental medicine, and his contributions towards cancer prevention.
- Paul McGillion
Paul McGillion was born in Paisley, Scotland but emmigrated with his family to Canada at the age of 2. He's worked extensively in Film, TV and Theatre for the past 15 years and is best known for the role of 'Dr.Carson Beckett', the loveable Scottish physcian in "Stargate: Atlantis" . Paul also recently co-starred in the movie 'Just Breathe' alongside The Office's Melora Hardin and independent feature "A Dog's Breakfast", working with Atlantis co-star David Hewlett.
- Hedy Fry
Hedy Fry, PC, MP, MD (born August 6 1941) is a Canadian politician and physician. Fry was born into poverty in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. Declining an English Literature scholarship to Oxford, Fry instead earned her equivalent of a BA in Science in one year and went on to then receive her medical training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland. She emigrated to Canada and established a practice in Vancouver.
- Ramón Emeterio Betances
Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán, was a Puerto Rican nationalist, and the primary instigator of the Grito de Lares revolution. As such, he is considered to be the father of the Puerto Rican independence movement. Since the "Grito" galvanized a burgeoning nationalism among Puerto Ricans, Betances is also considered "El Padre de la Patria" (Father of the Puerto Rican Nation).
- Philip Nitschke
Philip Nitschke (born 1947) is an Australian medical doctor, Humanist and founder of the pro-euthanasia group "Exit". He successfully campaigned to have a legal euthanasia law passed in Australia's Northern Territory and assisted four people in ending their lives before the law was overturned by the Federal government. Since then, he has provided advice to others who have ended their lives, mostly notably Nancy Crick, aged 69. On May 22, 2002, Crick, …
- Bernard Nathanson
Bernard Nathanson (born 31 July 1926 in New York) is a medical doctor and pro-life activist from New York. Nathanson graduated in 1949 from McGill University Facility of Medicine in Montreal. He has been licensed to practice in New York state since 1952. He became board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology in 1960. Both his grandfather and sister committed suicide when he was a child. As a younger man, he had been strongly pro-choice, …
- Robert Darwin
Dr Robert Waring Darwin, F.R.S. (30 May, 1766 - 13 November, 1848) was a Shrewsbury-based medical doctor, today best known as the father of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
- David Swann
Dr. David Swann is a medical doctor and Alberta Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary Mountain View. Swann is the co-founder of the Calgary-based group CANESI (Canadian Network to End Sanctions on Iraq) which later became CANDIL (Canada Democracy and International Law). In 2002, Swann was fired from his job of medical officer of health, for the Palliser Health Region in Alberta, for speaking out in favour of the Kyoto Accord.
- Robert Coles
Robert Coles (b. October 12, 1929) is an American author, developmental psychologist, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he attended Harvard, where he originally pursued literary interests until persuaded to go into medicine. He became a medical doctor in 1954 and moved to the South with plans to start a quiet practice as a child psychiatrist.
- Thomas Walker
Dr. Thomas Walker was a physician and explorer from Virginia who led an expedition to what is now the region beyond the Allegheny Mountains area of British North America in the mid-18th century. He was responsible for naming what is now known as the Cumberland Plateau and by extension the Cumberland River for the hero of the time, the Duke of Cumberland.
- Dorothea Erxleben
Dorothea Christiane Erxleben "née" Leporin (1715-1762) was the first female medical doctor in Germany. Erxleben was instructed in medicine by her father from an early age. The Italian scientist Laura Bassi's university professorship inspired Erxleben to fight for her right to practise medicine, and in 1742 she published a tract arguing that women should be allowed to attend university. After being admitted to study by a dispensation of Frederick the Great, …
- Kurt Donsbach
Kurt W. Donsbach is an educated but unlicensed chiropractor, and a controversial alternative medicine figure. He is the founder of Hospital Santa Monica in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. Following the death of Coretta Scott King while under treatment at the clinic in January 2006, it was shut down by Mexican health officials. Donsbach was convicted of practicing medicine without a license in California in 1971, …
- John R. Brinkley
John Romulus Brinkley (later John Richard Brinkley) was born on July 8, 1885 and died on May 26, 1942. He was both a controversial medical doctor who experimented with goat glands as a means of curing male impotence and a radio pioneer who created the age of Mexican border blasters. John Brinkley was born on July 8, 1885 near Beta, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA. He died in 1942 in San Antonio, Texas. His middle name given at birth was Romulus, but Dr.
- Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs was a German, later British medical doctor and biochemist. Krebs is best known for his identification of two important metabolic cycles: the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle. The latter, the key sequence of metabolic chemical reactions that produces energy in cells, is also known as the "Krebs cycle" and earned him a Nobel Prize in 1953.
- Graeme Garden
Graeme Garden also co-wrote the following books with the other members of "The Goodies *"The Goodies File" *"The Goodies Book of Criminal Records" *"The Making of The Goodies Disaster Movie
- Gerald Reaven
Gerald M. "Jerry" Reaven is an American endocrinologist and professor emeritus in medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California. A long-term researcher into diabetes, he achieved significant notability with his 1988 Banting Lecture (organised annually by the American Diabetes Association in memory of Frederick Banting). In his lecture, he propounded the theory that central obesity (male-type or apple-shaped obesity), …
- Gert Postel
Gert Postel (born June 18, 1958 in Bremen) is a German impostor, best known for successfully applying as a medical doctor several times without ever having received medical education. Gert Postel went to Hauptschule and finished his training as a mail carrier. Postel himself said that his mother died because of a maladministered depression treatment and that he himself had briefly been in a juvenile ward.
- Hadacol
Hadacol was a patent medicine marketed as a vitamin supplement. Its principal attraction, however, was that it contained 12 percent alcohol (listed on the tonic bottle's label as a "preservative"), which made it quite popular in the dry counties of the southern United States. It was the product of four-term Louisiana state Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc (1894-1971), a Democrat from Abbeville in Vermilion Parish. He was not a medical doctor, nor a registered pharmacist, …
- William Duncan Silkworth
William Duncan Silkworth, M.D., (1873?-1951) was an American medical doctor and specialist in the treatment of alcoholism. He was Director of the Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City in the 1930s, during which time Bill Wilson, a future co-founder of the mutual-help movement Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), was admitted on three separate occasions for alcoholism.
- David Dukes
David Dukes was an American character actor. Dukes was born in San Francisco, California. He had a long career in films, appearing in 35; and as a television guest star, notably as the man who attempted to rape Edith Bunker on "All in the Family," and during the 1980s in the miniseries "The Winds of War".
- Johan Pretorius
Johan "Lets" Pretorius (b. 1946) is a medical doctor from Potgietersrus as well as a right-winger who belongs to the Boeremag, an irredentist organization. He is married to Minnie Pretorius and has three sons Johan, Kobus and Wilhelm who also belong to the Boeremag. He was arrested on the 15 September 2002 when he was found with a truck laden of weapons and explosives in Lichtenburg.
- Francis Adams
Francis Adams was a Scottish medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works. Adams had a practice in Banchory, Kincardineshire from 1819–1861. Because there were no English translations of the medical tracts of the Greek, Roman, and Arabian doctors, Adams undertook many translations himself, which were widely published.
- Robert Richardson
Dr. Robert Richardson was an American medical doctor who spent much of his life teaching and working as an administrator at Bethany College. He served as family physician for Alexander Campbell, noted Restoration pioneer, for well over 30 years. He was also associate editor for Campbell’s "Millennial Harbinger" magazine for nearly 30 years.
- Hanna Reitsch
Hanna Reitsch was a famous German test pilot. Reitsch was born in Hirschberg, Silesia. She was the daughter of an ophthalmologist and was in training to become a medical doctor in 1932 when she left that field to pursue a career as a test pilot. In the 1930s she became famous, setting many glider, aerobatic and endurance records, being the first woman to cross the Alps in a glider. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
- George Leslie Mackay
George Leslie Mackay DD (偕叡理 or 馬偕; Pe̍h-oē-jī: Kai Sūi-lí or Má-kai; born March 21, 1844; died June 2, 1901) was the first Presbyterian missionary to northern Formosa (Taiwan). He served with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission. Mackay is among the best known Westerners to have lived in Taiwan. Mackay was born in Zorra Township, Oxford County, Canada West (now Ontario), Canada. He received his theological training at Knox College in Toronto, …
- Thomas Gann
Thomas William Francis Gann (13 May, 1867-24 February, 1938) was a medical doctor by profession, but is best remembered for his work as an amateur archaeologist exploring ruins of the Maya civilization. <br>Gann with stucco idol he found at Tulum, 1920s Thomas Gann was born in Murrish, Ireland and trained in medicine in Middlesex, England. In 1894 he was appoinrted district medical officer for British Honduras, where he would spend most of the next quarter century.
- Mikael Nordfors
Mikael Nordfors (b. 22 December 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a medical doctor with special interest in psychiatry and orthopedic medicine, and is co-author of the American bestseller Hypericum & Depression. He has also published the online booklet Democracy 2.1. He is also a musical composer/performer, having produced four CDs of symphonic synthesizer music named No Limits, Eternal Voyage, Take Off and Lux Eterna.