John Taylor

male
"Chevalier" John Taylor (1703-1772) was the first in a long line of British eye surgeons. While there is some evidence that he showed promise as an...
Hermann Snellen

Hermann Snellen

deceased (1908)
Hermann Snellen (February 19, 1834-January 18, 1908) was a Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1862).
Melissa Brown

Melissa Brown

female
Melissa Brown is an ophthalmologist from Flourtown, Pennsylvania who is a member of the Republican Party. She was also a three-time candidate for...
Hermann von Helmholtz

Hermann von Helmholtz

male, deceased (1894)
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 - September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist. In the words of the 1911...
L. L. Zamenhof

L. L. Zamenhof

male, deceased (1917)
Ludvic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer, Ludwik Łazarz) Zamenhof was an eye doctor, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken and s...
Charles Kelman

Charles Kelman

male, deceased (2004)
Charles D. Kelman (May 23, 1930 - June 1, 2004) was an ophthalmologist and a pioneer in cataract surgery. Kelman was born in Brooklyn, New York to...
Warren Tay

Warren Tay

male, deceased (1927)
Warren Tay (1843- May 15, 1927) was a British ophthalmologist who in 1881 first described the red spot on the retina of the eye, which is present...
Patricia Bath

Patricia Bath

female, 67 years old
Patricia Era Bath (born November 4, 1942, Harlem, New York) is an ophthalmologist credited as the first African American woman doctor to receive a...
Svyatoslav Fyodorov

Svyatoslav Fyodorov

male, deceased (2000)
Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov "; born August 8, 1927 – June 2, 2000) was a Russian ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, creator of radial ke...