- Pierre Fauchard
Pierre Fauchard (born 1678 in Brittany; died March 22 1761 in Paris) was a significant French physician, he is credited to be the "father of modem dentistry". He is widely known for his book, "Le chirurgien dentiste", "The Surgeon Dentist" 1728, where he described the basic oral anatomy and function, signs and symptoms of oral pathology, operative methods for removing decay and restoring teeth, periodontal disease (pyorrhea), orthodontics, … - John Smith
John Smith (1825-1910) was the founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry. He was born in Scotland, the son of a dentist, and took over the practice in 1851. Recognising the need for improved training, he founded the Edinburgh Dental Dispensary in 1860 and wrote the "Handbook of Dental Anatomy and Surgery" (1864). The Dispensary grew into the Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School by 1879. Smith was also a moderately successful playwright. - Doc Holliday
John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 - November 8, 1887) was an American dentist, gambler and gunfighter of the American Old West frontier, who is usually remembered for his associations with Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. - Alfred Stock
Alfred Stock was a German inorganic chemist. Born in Danzig (Gdańsk) and educated at Berlin, he became the director of the Chemistry Department at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe from 1926 to 1936. He was renowned for his pioneering research on boron hydrides. - Saint Apollonia
Saint Apollonia was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians prior to the persecution of Decius. According to legend, her torture included having all of her teeth violently pulled out or shattered. For this reason, she is popularly regarded as the patroness of dentistry and those suffering from toothache or other dental problems. - Edward M. Hundert
Edward M. Hundert, M.D. is a nationally known scholar, educator, psychiatrist, and medical ethicist who was president of Case Western Reserve University, a renowned research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Hundert announced on the evening of March 15, 2006, that he would resign as president of the University effective June 1st, 2006, when he was replaced by Gregory Eastwood. - P. Roy Vagelos
Dr. Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from July 1985 to June 1994. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from April 1986 to November 1994. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975. - Greene Vardiman Black
Greene Vardiman Black (1836 - 1915), commonly known as G.V. Black, is known as one of the founders of modern dentistry in the USA. He was born near Winchester, Illinois on August 3, 1836 to William and Mary Black. He spent his early life on a farm and quickly developed an interest in the natural world. By the age of 17, Black began studying medicine with the help of his brother, Dr. Thomas G. Black. - Yu Hua
Yu Hua is a Chinese author, born on April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He studied dentistry but soon decided to write fiction in 1983 because it allowed him to be more creative and flexible. He grew up during the Cultural Revolution so many of his stories and novels are marked by this experience. His early work can be compared with a nightmarish vision of a visit to the dentist: sadistic and brutal. Yu Hua has so far written three novels, … - Annette King
Annette Faye King (born 13 September 1947) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the governing Labour Party, and currently serves in Cabinet as Minister of Police, Minister of Food Safety, Minister of Transport and Minister of State Services. King was born in Murchison, a town in the West Coast region of the South Island. After receiving primary and secondary education in Murchison, she attended the University of Waikato and gained a BA degree. - Painless Parker
Edgar R.R. "Painless" Parker (1871-1951) was a flamboyant dentist and huckster. He attended Temple University dental school, and began his practice as a street dentist in New York City. He went on to manage a combination traveling circus/dental clinic, promoting "painless dentistry". At one point he claimed to have pulled 357 teeth in one day, which he strung on a necklace. He legally changed his first name to "Painless", … - Savanna
Savanna are a Japanese comedy duo consisting of and. Both attended Ritsumeikan University High School and created the manzai team as a joke during their years at Ritsumeikan University, having first met in the school's judo club. They then decided to join Yoshimoto Kogyo as a professional kombi. Their act is heavily based on observational humor, and Yagi frequently being confused as the boke of the group. - Faye Kellerman
Born in St. Louis, USA in 1952, Faye Kellerman is the author of the "Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus" crime novel series, as well as three non-series books, "The Quality of Mercy", "Moon Music" and "Straight into Darkness". She attended UCLA where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theoretical Mathematics in 1974. Four years later she received her Doctorate of Dental Surgery degree. At that time she "fully intended to pursue a career as a dentist". - Jim Craig
James "Jim" Philip Craig (b. 7 May 1943, Glasgow) is a retired footballer who played as a fullback. Most closely associated with Celtic, he was a member of their "Lisbon Lions" side which won the 1967 European Cup. A conscientious student at Glasgow's St Gerard's School, Craig's first senior side was the Glasgow University representative side, which he played for while studying dentistry at the institution. He joined Celtic in 1963, on amateur terms, … - Alfred Einhorn
Alfred Einhorn was a German chemist most notable for first synthesizing procaine in 1905 which he patented under the name Novocain. Until that time the primary anesthetic in use was cocaine, however its undesirable side effects (including toxicity and addiction) led scientists to seek out newer anesthetic drugs. Novocain was found to be comparatively safe and effective, although its anesthetic effects were weaker than cocaine and some patients proved highly allergic. - Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres" television sitcoms of the 1960s. As Uncle Joe "who is moving kinda slow", he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley. - Karl Koller
Karl Koller (born December 3, 1857 in Schüttenhofen, Bohemia (now Susice, Czech Republic) died March 21, 1944 in New York, New York.) was an Austrian ophthalmologist who began his medical career as a surgeon at the Vienna General Hospital, and was a colleague of Sigmund Freud. Koller introduced cocaine as a local anaesthetic for eye surgery. - Denis Lamoureux
Denis O. Lamoureux is an assistant professor of science and religion at St. Joseph's College in the University of Alberta. His appointment is the first tenure-track position in Canada dedicated to teaching and research on the relationship between scientific discovery and Christian faith. Lamoureux's academic specialty focuses on the modern origins controversy. - Les Horvath
Les Horvath (born October 12, 1921; died November 14, 1995) was the 1944 Heisman Trophy winner, who played quarterback and halfback for Ohio State University. He was born in South Bend, Indiana and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Horvath played for the Buckeyes in 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1944. He had already graduated with a bachelor's degree after the 1942 season. - Dan Crane
Daniel Bever Crane (born January 10, 1936) is an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives and served from 1979 to 1985. Crane, a native of Cook County, Illinois, attended Chicago public schools, received his A.B. from Hillsdale College in 1958, graduated from Indiana University in 1963 with a degree in dentistry, did graduate work at the University of Michigan in 1964-1965, … - 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, … - Rudy Perpich
Rudolph "Rudy" George Perpich, Sr. (June 27, 1928 - September 21, 1995) was an American dentist and politician. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, he served as the 34th and 36th governor of Minnesota from December 29, 1976 to January 4, 1979, and from January 3, 1983 to January 7, 1991. This was the longest tenure among the state's governors. He was also the state's only Roman Catholic governor and the only one to serve non-consecutive terms. - Thomas Bramwell Welch
Thomas Bramwell Welch (December 31, 1825 - 1903) was the discoverer of the pasteurization process to prevent the fermentation of grape juice. Welch was born in Glastonbury, England. He came to the United States when his father emigrated in 1834. He attended public schools in Watertown, New York and then attended a seminary in Gouverneur. He then attended medical school, becoming a physician in Penn Yan, New York. - Nathan Cooley Keep
Dr. Nathan Cooley Keep (1800-1875) was a great pioneer in the field of dentistry, and the founding Dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Dean Keep was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, on December 23, 1800. Adept with his hands, he became interested in dentistry following an apprenticeship with a local jeweler. In 1821, he moved to Boston and graduated from Harvard Medical School with an M.D. in 1827. - Bernard J. Cigrand
Dr. Bernard J. Cigrand, a dentist, has a strong claim to being considered the father of Flag Day in the United States. Cigrand, who lived from 1866 to 1932, practiced dentistry in Chicago and was the third dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, serving in that post from 1903 to 1906. Working as a grade school teacher in Waubeka, WI, in 1885, Cigrand held the first recognized formal observance of Flag Day at Stony Hill School in Waubeka. - Winfield Dunn
Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn (born July 1, 1927) was governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 1975. Dunn was born in Meridian, Mississippi. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1950 with a B.B.A., and from the University of Tennessee Medical Units in Memphis in 1955 with a D.D.S. Dunn served with the U.S. Navy in the Asia-Pacific Theatre during World War II. Dunn was also a reserve lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. - Jim Lonborg
James Reynold Lonborg (born April 16, 1942) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played with the Boston Red Sox (1965-71), Milwaukee Brewers (1972) and Philadelphia Phillies (1973-79). He was known as "Gentleman Jim" during his 15 year career for his fearlessness for pitching on the inside of the plate. Born in Santa Maria, California, Lonborg graduated from Stanford University. - Seymour Lipton
Seymour Lipton (born 6 November 1903, died 15 December 1986) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s. He initially trained as a dentist but focused on sculpture from 1932. His early choices of medium changed from wood to lead and then to bronze, and he is best known for his work in metal. - Junji Ito
Junji Ito is an author of Japanese horror manga. Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, … - Ana Bedran-Russo
Dr. Ana Bedran-Russo is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Restorative Dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry. Dr. Bedran-Russo previously taught at the University of Campinas’ Piracicaba School of Dentistry in Brazil, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). As a researcher, she holds a National Institutes of Health K-08 grant, … - Philip Blaiberg
Philip Blaiberg (1909 - August 17, 1969) was a South African dentist and the second person to receive a heart transplant in the world. On January 2, 1968, in Cape Town, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the second heart transplant in the world on the fifty-nine year-old Blaiberg. Blaiberg survived the operation, and continued with his life for nineteen months and fifteen days before dying from heart complications on August 17, 1969. - Pierre Corbeil
Pierre Corbeil is a Quebec politician and dentist. He was the former Minister of Natural Resources and Wildlife and the former Member of National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for Abitibi-Est as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. Corbeil went to the Université de Montréal and obtained a doctor's degree in dentistry in 1978 before becoming an associate at a local dental clinic. He would later become the manager and vice-president of the Quebec Association of Dental Surgeons. - Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow
Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhammedow (Russianized name: Курбанкули (or Гурбангулы) Мяликгулыевич Бердымухаммедов, born June 29 1957)has been the President of Turkmenistan since December 21, 2006, when he became acting president following the death of Saparmurat Niyazov. On February 14, 2007, Berdimuhammedow was named the winner of the presidential election held three days earlier, and immediately sworn into office. - Jim Harrell Jr.
James Andrew (Jim) Harrell, Jr. was the Democratic nominee for U.S. House of Representatives from in 2004. He won 41 percent of the vote to Virginia Foxx's 59 percent. The seat had been open after the retirement of Richard Burr, who left to run a successful campaign against Erskine Bowles to represent North Carolina in the Senate. Dr. Jim Harrell is a dentist and public servant in Elkin, North Carolina. - Sheila Faith
(Irene) Sheila Faith (born Irene Sheila Book, June 3, 1928) is a British politician and dental surgeon. She served one term each in the House of Commons and European Parliament as a Conservative. She is a native of Newcastle upon Tyne and attended Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central High School and the University of Durham. - Randy Starr
Randy Starr is the stage name of Warren Nadel (born 2 July 1930). He was educated at Columbia University where he took his undergraduate degree from Columbia College in 1951, and his DMD degree in dentistry from Columbia College of Dental Medicine in 1954. He is currently retired and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He wrote the music and lyrics, along with Dick Wolf, and performed the 1957 hit song "After School". He was also a member of the U.S. band, The Islanders, … - Charles Murray Turpin
Charles Murray Turpin (March 12, 1863-March 27, 1937) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. C. Murray Turpin was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He attended Wyoming Seminary in Kingston. He served as a corporal in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War in Company F, Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard from 1896 to 1901, rising to the rank of captain. - John Goodsir
John Goodsir (March 20, 1814-March 6, 1867) was a Scottish anatomist, born at Anstruther, Fife, Scotland. Goodsir was trained at St Andrews and Edinburgh, in which latter city he served an apprenticeship in dentistry; he settled in Anstruther and there wrote his noted essay on "Teeth"; in 1840 he became keeper of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and lecturer on Diseases of the Bone in 1842. Four years later he succeeded Dr. - Adalbert J. Volck
Adalbert J. Volck (1828-1912) was a dentist, political cartoonist, and caricaturist born in Bavaria. He was known for supporting the Confederacy during the American Civil War, doing so through his political cartoons (right), smuggling items for the Confederate army, and personally assisting President Jefferson Davis by acting as a courier. Volck was also known for his work on porcelain restoration techniques in dentistry. - Steve Eichel
Steve K. D. Eichel (formerly Steve Dubrow-Eichel) is a psychologist known primarily for his work on destructive cults, coercive persuasion, mind control, brainwashing, and deprogramming. He is a former President of the Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the 2006-07 President of the American Academy of Counseling Psychology, …
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