Paul Camille Hippolyte Brouardel was a French pathologist who was born in Saint Quentin. He was a professor of forensics of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Paris, and succeeded Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (1818–1879) as doyen of French forensic medicine. From 1884-1904 he was chair of the Consultative Committee of Hygiene. Brouardel was a leading authority of French forensic medicine, …

James Crichton-Browne (November 29, 1840 - January 31, 1938) was a British physician; he earned his medical degree at the Royal College in Edinburgh, and spent most of his career at the West Riding Asylum at Wakefield. It was here that neurologist David Ferrier performed his experimentation with cerebral localization. Crichton-Browne was regarded as an expert on all aspects of medicine, public health and social reform.

Jean Astruc (Sauves, Auvergne, March 19, 1684 - Paris, May 5, 1766) was a famous professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of scripture.

Charles Franklin Kettering, also known as "Boss" Kettering, was born in Loudonville, Ohio, USA the fourth of five children of Jacob Kettering and Martha Hunter Kettering. He was a farmer, school teacher, mechanic, engineer, scientist, inventor and social philosopher. He had poor eyesight, but acquired an electrical engineering degree from Ohio State University in 1904. While attending Ohio State University he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity.

Elizabeth Christine of Brunswick-Bevern, Queen of Prussia (November 8 1715, Wolfenbüttel - January 13 1797) was the daughter of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg. On June 12 1733 she married Frederick II of Prussia and lived with him in Neu-Ruppin and later in the castle at Rheinsberg. This was an involuntary marriage, and did not result in children, as Frederick almost completely ignored Elizabeth.

Philippe Ricord was a French physician. He studied medicine in Philadelphia, and moved to Paris in 1820, where he graduated in medicine in 1826. After practicing in the provinces he returned in 1828 to the capital, and worked there as a surgeon, specializing in venereal diseases. Doctor Ricord was surgeon in chief to the hospital for venereal diseases and to the Hôpital du Miti. He won a world-wide reputation in his special field.

Richard Rock (1690? - November 1777) was a well-known doctor in 18th century London. Originally from Hamburg, he was depicted by William Hogarth in the fifth scene of his 1731/2 satirical and moralistic series, "A Harlot's Progress", where he stands in dispute with notable French doctor John Misaubin beside the dying body of their patient, Moll Hackabout. The contrast between Rock (German, short and fat) and Misaubin (French and gaunt) is intentional.

Jean Alfred Fournier {born March 12, 1832, died 1914) was a French dermatologist who specialized in the study of venereal diseases. Fournier began his medical career as an intern at the Hôpital du Midi as an understudy to Philippe Ricord (1800-1889). Fournier's main contribution to medical science concerned the study of congenital syphilis, which he first described in 1883.

Isaac Swainson (1746 - 1812) was the son of John Swainson (d1750), yeoman, of High House, Hawkshead, Lancashire. He was famous for his botanical garden, which was largely funded from the profits of a herbal remedy for venereal disease, and a plant genus is named after him. For his commercial activities in the latter field, he has been called a "radical quack". He was a relative of William Swainson, the naturalist.

Ettie Annie Rout (later "Ettie Annie Hornibrook") (24 February 1877-17 September 1936) was a Tasmanian-born New Zealander whose work among servicemen in Paris and the Somme during World War I made her a war hero among the French, yet through the same events became "persona non grata" in New Zealand. She married Fred Hornibrook on 3 May 1920 (no children, later separated). She died in the Cook Islands, and is buried there.

Sir Alfred Cooper (1838 - 3 March 1908) was a fashionable English surgeon and clubman of the late 19th century, whose clients included The Prince of Wales. His specialty in venereal disease gave him an unusual access to and perspective on late Victorian aristocratic morality. He was devoted to his wife Lady Agnes Duff, the youngest daughter of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife by his wife Lady Agnes Hay daughter of William Hay, …

Miki Garcia (born 17 February 1947 in Kingman, Arizona) is an American model. She is best known for being "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1973 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. Miki's father served in the United States Air Force, and his work took his family to duty stations all over the world. She lived in Germany, Japan and Panama, as well as Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii and Montana.

George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon KG (1547 - 9 September, 1603) was the eldest son of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and Anne Morgan. His father was first cousin to Elizabeth I of England. In 1560, at the age of 13, George matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1566 he accompanied the Earl of Bedford on an official mission to Scotland, to attend the baptism of the future King James VI. During the Northern Rebellion of 1569, …

Lillie Elizabeth Goodisson née Price (c. 1860 - January 10 1947) was a Welsh Australian nurse and a pioneer of family planning in New South Wales. Goodisson was born in Holyhead, Wales. She trained as a nurse and at age 19 married London physician Lawford David Evans. Soon after they moved to Auckland, New Zealand, where they started a family. The couple and their two children moved to Melbourne in 1895, and in 1897 established in Myrnong private hospital at St. Kilda.

Jacques de Béthencourt was a French physician who practiced medicine in Rouen. He is remembered for coining the term venereal disease. As a Frenchman, Béthencourt resented the term "Morbus Gallicus" (French diseasewhich was a popular name for sexually transmitted diseases at the time. He believed that since the disease originated from "illicit love" it should be named "Morbus Venereus" (Malady of Venus} or "lues venerea" (venereal disease).

Alfred Blaschko (March 4, 1858 - March 26, 1922) was a German dermatologist who was a native of Freienwalde an die Oder. In 1881 he earned his medical doctorate at Berlin, and afterwards worked with Georg Wegner (1843-1917) in Stettin. Later he opened a private dermatological practice in Berlin. Blaschko specialized in the study of occupational dermatoses and prophylaxis of venereal disease.

Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon (November 1, 1827 - September 21, 1907) was a French dermatologist who was born in Grenoble. After receiving his medical degree, he practiced medicine in Lyon, and from 1858 until his death in 1907, he was a physician associated with the thermal spas in Saint-Martin-d`Uriage. Doyon is chiefly remembered for his published works. With Ernest Henri Besnier he founded the journal "Annales de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie".

Eduard Arning (June 9, 1855 - 1936) was an English-German dermatologist and microbiologist from Manchester. In 1879 he obtained his medical doctorate from Strassburg, and afterwards was a medical assistant in Strassburg under Adolf Kussmaul (1822-1902), and in Berlin under Oskar Lassar (1849-1907). From 1884-86 he researched leprosy in the Hawaiian Islands. In 1887 he became a specialist of dermatology and venereal disease in Hamburg.

Philippe Charles Ernest Gaucher was a French dermatologist who was born in the department of Nièvre. He received his medical doctorate in 1882, and soon after headed a medical clinic at Necker. During the subsequent years he was an instructor at several hospital clinics in Paris. He taught classes on pathological anatomy, bacteriology and histology, as well as dermatology.

Charles-Paul Diday (1812-1894) was a French physician who practiced medicine in Lyon. He specialized in the research of venereal disease, particularly congenital syphilis. His "Traite de la syphilis des nouveau-nes et des enfants a la mamelle" (A Treatise on Syphilis in New-Born Children and Infants at the Breast) was considered a landmark work on congenital syphilis, and has been translated into English. In the prevention of the spread of venereal disease in France, …

Jack Suchet (1908 - 9 September 2001) was an obstetrician, gynaecologist and venereologist, who carried out research on the use of penicillin in the treatment of venereal disease with Sir Alexander Fleming. He was father of the actor David Suchet

Robert Vivian Storer (1900 - 1958), Australian venerealogist, sex educator, and writer, was born in Adelaide in 1900. Educated at the University of Adelaide, he left Australia in 1921 and graduated from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, as a general practitioner in 1923. He then undertook postgraduate study in venereal disease in Vienna for two years. He returned to Adelaide in 1925 and set up a venereal disease practice there.

Hermann Edler von Zeissl (September 22, 1817 - September 23, 1884) was an Austrian dermatologist who was born in the village of Vierzighuben, near Zwittau, Moravia. Zeissl received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, and in 1846 became a medical assistant in the surgical and dermatological hospitals at the university. In 1861 he became a professor in Vienna, and in 1869 became head physician of the department of syphilis at the General Hospital Vienna.