- Michael Baden
Michael Baden is a board-certified forensic pathologist and medical doctor. Baden is the host of HBO's "Autopsy". Baden received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine in 1959. Baden maintains a private forensic pathology consulting practice and is the co-director of the New York State Police Medicolegal Investigation Unit. Baden was the Chief Medical Examiner for the City of New York from 1978 to 1979.
- Royal College Of Pathologists
The Royal College of Pathologists, was founded in 1962, and is a medical organisation that promotes and sets standards for the study and practice of pathology. The College has oversight of the following main disciplines *Histopathology **Neuropathology **Cytopathology **Paediatric pathology *Chemical Pathology *Haematology (with the Royal College of Physicians) *Immunology (with the Royal College of Physicians) *Microbiology & Virology
- 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.
- Marie Cassidy
Dr Marie Cassidy was appointed state pathologist in the Republic of Ireland in January, 2004. She succeeded Dr John Harbison. Her previous jobs included deputy state pathologist and the professorship of forensic medicine in the University of Glasgow. She was born in Glasgow.
- Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow (born October 13, 1821, in Schivelbein (Pomerania); died September 5, 1902, in Berlin) was a German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician. He is referred to as the "Father of Pathology".
- Robin Warren
Dr J. Robin Warren AC (born June 11, 1937 in Adelaide) is an Australian pathologist and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium "Helicobacter pylori". He received his M.B. B.S. from the University of Adelaide. In 1967 he was admitted into the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia and became a senior pathologist at the Royal Perth Hospital where he spent the majority of his career.
- John Lee
John Andre Lee is an English consultant histopathologist at Rotherham General Hospital and clinical professor of pathology at Hull York Medical School. Lee gained his medical degree, a BSc. and a Ph.D. in physiology at University College London. He is most notable to the wider public as co-presenter (with Gunther von Hagens) of "Anatomy for Beginners" (screened in the UK on Channel 4 in 2005) and "Autopsy: Life and Death" (Channel 4, 2006).
- James Paget
Sir James Paget (11 January 1814 - 30 December 1899) was a British surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. His famous works included "Lectures on Tumours" (1851) and "Lectures on Surgical Pathology" (1853). While most people recall that Paget's disease refers to bone, …
- Bernard Spilsbury
Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury was a British pathologist. His cases include the Brides in the Bath Murders, the Dr Crippen case, Brighton trunk murders, the Murder on the Crumbles case, Podmore Case and the Vera Page Case. He also had a critical role in developing Operation Mincemeat. Bernard Spilsbury was born at 35 Bath Street, Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and St Mary's Hospital in London.
- William Boyd
William Boyd CC (June 21, 1885 - March 10, 1979) was a Scottish-Canadian pathologist, academic, and author known for his medical textbooks. Born in Portsoy, Scotland, he received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1908. During World War I, he was with the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Flanders. In 1916 he wrote the book, "With a Field Ambulance at Ypres".
- Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hodgkin (August 17, 1798 - April 5, 1866) was a British physician and considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma and blood disease, in 1832. Hodgkin's work marked the beginning of times when a pathologist was actively involved in the clinical process. He was a contemporary of Thomas Addison and Richard Bright at Guy's Hospital.
- Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (October 30, 1895 - April 24, 1964) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist and Nobel laureate. Domagk was born in Lagow, Brandenburg, the son of a school headmaster. Until he was 14 he attended school in Sommerfeld, Brandenburg (now Lubsko, Poland). Domagk studied medicine at the University of Kiel, but volunteered to serve as a soldier in World War I, where he was wounded in December 1914, working the rest of the war as medic.
- James Ewing
James Stephen Ewing was an American pathologist. He was the first Professor of pathology at Cornell University and became famous with the discovery of a form of malignant bone tumor that later became known as Ewing's sarcoma.
- Keith Simpson
1947 Student textbook Forensic Medicine, which Dr Simpson wrote during the war, was published. 1948 The death of Ananda Mahidol, King Ananda of Siam brought Keith Simpson his first case outside of England when a Major-General of the Police of Siam asked Dr Simpson's help interpreting what had happeed. 1948 In the Gorringe case as it became known, …
- Theobald Smith
Theobald Smith (July 31, 1859 - December 10, 1934) was a pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist and is widely-considered to be America's first internationally-significant medical research scientist.
- Victoria Rowell
Victoria Rowell (born May 10, 1959) is an award-winning American dancer and actress. She is known for two high profile television roles: the role of "Drucilla Winters" on the daytime drama "The Young & The Restless", and her primetime role as Dick Van Dyke's medical examiner, assistant and pathologist, "Dr. Amanda Bentley" on "Diagnosis: Murder".
- Beck Weathers
Beck Weathers is an American pathologist from Texas. He is best known for his role in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster that has been the subject of many books and film, most notably "Into Thin Air" and "Everest". During that climb, he was left for dead, exposed to the elements on the South Col, where he suffered severe frost bite. He recovered enough to walk alone and unassisted to nearby Camp IV. He was later helped to walk on frozen feet to a lower camp, …
- Joseph Bell
Joseph Bell, JP, DL, FRCS Ed., (2 December, 1837–1911) was a Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. In his instruction, he emphasized the importance of close observation in making a diagnosis. To illustrate this, he would often pick a stranger and, by observing him, deduce his occupation and recent activities.
- David Bruce
Sir David Bruce (May 29, 1855, Melbourne - November 27, 1931) was a Scottish pathologist and microbiologist who investigated the Malta-fever and trypanosomes, identifying the cause of sleeping sickness. He won the Leeuwenhoek Medal in 1915. "Brucella" is a genus of the Bacteriaceae which is named for him. "Brucella melitensis" is the cause of undulant fever in man and of abortion in goats. It is usually transmitted by goat's milk.
- Francis Camps
Francis Edward Camps was a famous British pathologist. He was trained at Guy's Hospital Medical School and was a professor of forensic medicine at the London Hospital. He worked on, amongst others, the Dr. Adams Case where he identified 163 suspicious deaths, and was an expert witness during the John Christie trial. Francis Edward Camps was born in Teddington, Middlesex, the son of Dr Percy William Leopold Camps (1878 - 1956), a general practitioner and surgeon.
- James Underwood
Professor Sir James Cressee Elphinstone Underwood is a British scientist who was awarded a knighthood for services to medicine in the 2005 New Year honours list.
- Paul Langerhans
Paul Langerhans (July 25 1847 - July 20 1888) was a famous German pathologist and biologist.
- Christiaan Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman (Nijkerk, August 11, 1858 - Utrecht, November 5, 1930) was a Dutch physician and pathologist whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins. Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Although Eijkman had been sent to Indonesia to study beriberi, the discovery of the cause was accidental.
- Thomas Stoltz Harvey
Dr. Thomas Stoltz Harvey (born October 10 1912) is a pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Albert Einstein in 1955. He kept Einstein's brain after the autopsy, apparently without permission from the Einstein family. The controversy that this provoked cost Harvey his job. In August, 1978, New Jersey Monthly reporter Steven Levy published an article: "I Found Einstein's Brain" based on his interview with Dr. Harvey when he was living in Wichita, Kansas. In 1988, Dr.
- Sidney Farber
Sidney Farber (1903-1973) was a pediatric pathologist. He was born in 1903 in Buffalo, N.Y., the third oldest of a family of 14 children. He was a graduate of the University of Buffalo in 1923. He took his first year of medical school at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany. He entered Harvard Medical School as a second-year student and graduated in 1927. He was married to Norma C. Farber (formerly Holzman), a children's author.
- Marcia Angell
Marcia Angell , M. D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine on June 30, 2000. A graduate of Boston University School of Medicine, she trained in both internal medicine and anatomic pathology and is a board-certified pathologist.
- Wenyi Wang
Doctor Wang Wenyi (born October 26, 1958 in Jilin) is a pathologist and journalist for the Falun Gong-affiliated newspaper "The Epoch Times". Wang Wenyi is a Chinese national who has lived in the United States for 20 years of her life. Wang was trained in China as a medical doctor, holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Chicago, and recently completed her residency as a pathologist at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital.
- John Grant
John Grant (born Bolton, Lancashire, 1933) is a British author who writes under the pen name "Jonathan Gash". He is the author of the Lovejoy series of novels. Grant is a doctor by training and worked as a general practitioner and pathologist. He served in the British Army and attained the rank of Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was head of bacteriology at the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for the University of London between 1971 and 1988.
- Emilia Fox
Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox (born July 31, 1974 in London, England) is a British actress possibly best known for her role as pathologist Nikki Alexander in television series "Silent Witness", having joined the cast on the departure of Amanda Burton. Fox played Jeannie Hurst in the 2000 remake of "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)". In 2003, Fox played Jane Seymour in a two-part television biopic on King Henry VIII, with Ray Winstone as the king, …
- Daniel Elmer Salmon
Daniel Elmer Salmon, (July 23, 1850 - August 30, 1914), was born at Mount Olive, New Jersey. He was educated at Cornell University, and took his D.V.M. there in 1872, the first D.V.M. granted in the United States. Dr. Salmon organized the Bureau of Animal Industry and served as its chief from 1884-1906. From 1907-12, he had charge of the veterinary department in the University of Montevideo, Uruguay. Salmonella is a genus of microorganisms named after him, …
- Jonathan Hutchinson
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913), English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist and pathologist, was born on 23 July 1828 at Selby, Yorkshire, England, his parents belonging to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
- Hans Chiari
Hans Chiari was a German pathologist who practiced medicine in Prague and Strasbourg. His primary duties were concerned with postmortem examinations, and most of his 177 published writings are the result of these autopsies. In 1891, he described a brain malformation that is characterized by abnormalities in the region where the brain and spinal cord meet, and it causes part of the cerebellum to protrude through the foramen magnum (bottom of the skull) into the spinal canal.
- Ludwig Aschoff
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff was a German physician and pathologist. He is considered to be one of the most influential pathologists of the early 20th century and is regarded as the most important German pathologist after Rudolf Virchow. Aschoff studied medicine at the University of Bonn, University of Strasbourg, and the University of Würzburg.
- Ralph Erdmann
Ralph R. Erdmann is a pathologist. He has been convicted on several counts of evidence tampering and perjury.
- Catalina Sandino Moreno
Catalina Sandino Moreno is an Academy Award-nominated Colombian actress. Sandino was born in Bogotá, Colombia to a pathologist mother. Before becoming an actress, she studied advertising at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. She relocated to New York City in 2004, after she was "discovered" at the Rubén Di Pietro acting school in Bogotá.
- Kurt Benirschke
Kurt Benirschke (born May 26, 1924) is a German-born American pathologist, geneticist and expert on the placenta and reproduction in humans and myriad mammalian species. Benirschke was raised in a small town in Northern Germany and received his M.D. degree from the University of Hamburg. He immigrated to the United States in 1949. After an internship in New Jersey, he trained in pathology at university hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School in Boston.
- George Whipple
George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 - February 1, 1976) was an American physician, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia." Whipple was born to Ashley Cooper Whipple and Frances Anna Hoyt in Ashland, New Hampshire. He was the son and grandson of physicians.
- James Thomson
James "Jamie" Alexander Thomson (born in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American developmental biologist who also serves as a professor of anatomy in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and as the chief pathologist at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.
- Charles Randal Smith
Dr. Charles Randal Smith was the head pediatric forensic pathologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, from 1982 to 2003. The quality of his autopsies, and the resulting criminal charges and convictions of several people have been called into question, and a full public inquiry has been promised.
- Matthew Baillie
Matthew Baillie was a Scottish physician and pathologist. The brother of poetress Joanna Baillie, he was a pupil of John Hunter. He was educated at Hamilton Academy and the University of Glasgow. Baillie specialised in morbid anatomy. Baillie died in 1823 of tuberculosis. He is buried in Duntisbourne, Gloucestershire.