- Robert Koch
Robert Koch was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the cholera vibrio (1883) and for his development of Koch's postulates. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his tuberculosis findings in 1905. He is considered one of the founders of bacteriology. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. - Mario Raviglione
Dr Mario Raviglione has been Director of the Stop TB Department since 2003. He joined the World Health Organization in 1991 as a junior professional officer sponsored by the Italian Government, to work on TB/HIV and TB epidemiology in Europe. Later, he became responsible for setting up the global drug-resistance surveillance project and the new TB surveillance and monitoring system. Between 1999 and 2003, he was Coordinator for Tuberculosis Strategy and Operations globally, … - James Watson
James Watson was born in Hudson, New York, in 1850. His mother was from Ohio, and his father from NY. He worked as a laborer. Watson enlisted in the 7th U.S. Cavalry in 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was assigned to Company C, and served under Captain Thomas W. Custer. He participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn River on June 25 - 26 June, 1876, where, as his company approached the bluffs overlooking the river, Watson’s horse and that of another man, Peter Thompson, … - John Keats
John Keats was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson has been immense. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats's poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature. - Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short story writer and playwright. He was born in Taganrog, southern Russia, on, and died of tuberculosis at the health spa of Badenweiler, Germany, on. His brief playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress". - Marcos Espinal
Marcos Espinal , Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership Secretariat Marcos Espinal is the Executive Secretary of the Global Partnership to Stop TB. He joined WHO in 1997 to lead the WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Drug Resistance Surveillance and the building of a strategy to manage MDR-TB in resource-limited countries. From 2000 he managed the DOTS-Plus initiative for the management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, including the Green Light Committee. - Kevin de Cock
Kevin De Cock , M.D., director of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization Video | Transcript | Podcast The World Health Organization's Dr. Kevin De Cock talks about the global efforts to stem the spread of HIV and improve access to antiretroviral therapy. Kevin De Cock Biography - Miguel Hernández
"Miguel Hernández is also the name of a Spanish University" The Spanish poet Miguel Hernández (October 30, 1910-March 28, 1942), born in Orihuela (Spain), to a poor family and given little formal education, published his first book of poetry at 23, and gained considerable fame before his death. The poet was arrested multiple times after the Spanish Civil War for his anti-fascist sympathies, and eventually sentenced to death. - Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (November 5 1913 - July 8 1967) was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" (1939) and Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), a role she had also played in London's West End. She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles. - Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855) was an English novelist and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature. - John Young
John Young (June 12, 1802 - April 23, 1852) was an American politician. He was born in Chelsea, Vermont. As a child, he moved to Freeport (now Conesus), Livingston County, New York. He had only basic schooling but, by self-study accumulated a knowledge of classics and became a law clerk, becoming admitted to the bar in 1829. He entered politics as a Jacksonian Democrat, and shortly afterward moved to the Anti-Masonic Party, … - Albert Calmette
Léon Charles Albert Calmette was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis. He also developed the first antivenin for snake venom, the Calmette's serum. Calmette was born in Nice, France. He wanted to serve in the Navy and be a physician, … - Arata Kochi
Arata Kochi, a Japanese physician and public health expert, is the director of the World Health Organization's malaria program. He had previously been director of its tuberculosis programs for ten years. - Christopher Dye
Christopher Dye is Coordinator of Tuberculosis Monitoring and Evaluation at the World Health Organization and Gresham Professor of Physic in the City of London.<br><br> He was born in Belfast in 1956 and began professional life as an ecologist in the UK, having taken a first-class degree in biology and a DPhil in zoology from the universities of York and Oxford. - Gerard Majella
Saint Gerard Majella is a Catholic saint. He is a saint whose intercession is requested for children (and unborn children in particular); childbirth; mothers (and expectant mothers in particular); motherhood; falsely accused people; good confessions; lay brothers; and Muro Lucano, Italy. Gerard was born as Gerardo Maiella on April 23, 1725 in Muro Lucano, Italy. He was the son of a tailor who died when Gerard was 12, leaving the family in poverty. - David Gray
David Gray (January 29, 1838 - December 3, 1861), Scottish poet, the son of a handloom weaver, was born at Merkland, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. His parents resolved to educate him for the church, and through their self-denial and his own exertions as a pupil teacher and private tutor he was able to complete a course of four sessions at the university of Glasgow. He began to write poetry for "The Glasgow Citizen" and began his idyll on the Luggie, … - Albert Schatz
Albert Schatz (2 February, 1920 - 17 January, 2005) was a scientist who was eventually named the co-discoverer of streptomycin, an antibiotic remedy used to treat tuberculosis and a number of other diseases. Schatz managed to isolate two strains of Actinobacteria, which could effectively cease the growth of several penicillin-resistant bacteria, on October 19 1943 in the course of his graduate work at Cook College in Rutgers University. - Camille Guérin
Jean-Marie Camille Guérin (b. December 22, 1872, Poitiers, France; d. June 9, 1961, Paris. French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist who, together with Albert Calmette developed the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis. Camille Guérin was born in Poitiers to a family of modest means. His father died of tuberculosis in 1882 (as well as his wife, in 1918). - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov was born on May 16, 1845, in a village near Kharkoff in Russia. He was the son of an officer of the Imperial Guard, who was a landowner in the Ukraine steppes. His mother, nee Nevakhowitch, was of Jewish origin. Mechnikov went to school at Kharkoff and was, even when he was a little boy, passionately interested in natural history, on which he used to give lectures to his small brothers and to other children. - John Parker
John Parker (July 13, 1729 - September 17, 1775) was an American farmer, mechanic, and soldier who commanded the Massachusetts militia near Lexington during the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Parker was born in Lexington and his experience as a soldier in the French and Indian War (Seven Years War) at the Siege of Louisbourg and conquest of Quebec most likely led to his election as militia captain by the men of the town. - Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins was a prominent political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate. Cousins was born in Union City, New Jersey. At age 11, he was misdiagnosed with tuberculosis and placed in a sanatorium. Despite this, he was an athletic youth, and he claimed that as a young boy, he had “set out to discover exuberance.” After graduating from Union Hill High School, he received a Bachelor’s degree from Teachers College, … - Jean Vigo
Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 - October 5, 1934) was a short-lived French film director, who helped in the establishment of poetic realism in film in the 1930s and went on to be a posthumous influence on the French nouvelle vague of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Vigo was born on April 26, 1905, to Emily Clero and the prominent militant anarchist Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo, (who adopted the name Miguel Almereyda - an anagram of "y'a la merde", … - Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë (January 17, 1820 - May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest of the Brontë literary family. She used the pen name Acton Bell. She was born in the village of Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the last of six children. After the family moved to Haworth in 1821 where her father, Patrick Brontë, was appointed perpetual curate, Anne's mother, Maria Branwell Brontë, died of cancer. - Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", and "A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy"; but he also published sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting tuberculosis. - René Dubos
René Jules Dubos, was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who exemplified qualities of the modern Renaissance person. He is credited as an author of a maxim "Think globally, act locally". He devoted most of his professional life to the empirical study of microbial diseases and to the analysis of the environmental and social factors that affect the welfare of humans. - Ceferino Namuncurá
Ceferino "Morales" Namuncurá (the Venerable Namuncurá) was a religious student and the object of a Roman Catholic "cultus" and veneration in northern Patagonia. He was born in Chimpay, in Valle Medio, Río Negro Province, Argentina, the sixth child of Rosario Burgos and a Mapuche "cacique", Manuel Namuncurá. He was baptized by a missionary priest, Domingo Milanesio, at the age of eight. Namuncurá's early years were spent by the Río Negro river, … - Annalena Tonelli
Annalena Tonelli was an Italian trained lawyer who for several years did remarkable humanitarian work in the Horn of Africa. She generally worked with people with "special needs" and refugees. She was born in Forlì, Romagna. In 2003 she won the Nansen Refugee Award which is given annually by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to recognize outstanding service to the cause of refugees. - Baruch Spinoza
Baruch de Spinoza (lived November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Revealing considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until years after his death. Today, he is considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy, laying the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism. - Han Dongfang
Han Dongfang is the son of a peasant and, before the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, worked as a railroad electrician. Han Dongfang is known primarily for his activities during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 after which he became a human rights activist. In 1989 Han Dongfang was the convener of the Beijing Autonomous Workers Federation, the first independent labor organization in mainland China in 50 years. - Francis Thompson
Francis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book, "Poems" in 1893. Francis Thompson lived as an unbalanced invalid in Wales and at Storrington, but wrote over 3 books of poetry, with other works and essays, before dying of tuberculosis in 1907. - Arthur Jones
Arthur Owen Jones (16 August, 1872 - 21 December, 1914), was a cricketer, noted as an all-rounder. He was born in Shelton, Nottinghamshire, and played for Cambridge University, Nottinghamshire, London County and England. Jones was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1900. Jones was a brilliant, sometimes impetuous, opening batsman and a leg-break and googly bowler. In 1903 he made what was then the highest-ever score by a Nottinghamshire batsman, … - Link Wray
Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr was an American rock and roll guitar player most noted for pioneering a new sound for electric guitars in his hit 1958 instrumental "Rumble", by Link Wray and his Ray Men. Before "Rumble"', electric guitars were commonly used to produce clean sounds and jazz chords. Wray pioneered electric guitar distortions, like overdrive and fuzz, and was the first guitarist to use power chords to play a song's melody. - Armand Frappier
Dr. Armand Frappier CC (November 26, 1904 - December 17, 1991) was a physician, microbiologist and expert on tuberculosis from Quebec, Canada. Born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, the son of Arthur-Alexis Frappier and Bernadette Codebecq, his mother died in 1923 from tuberculosis. This greatly affected him and he pursued a career devoted to fighting this "tueuse de maman" (mother killer). In 1924, he received a Bachelor of Arts and, in 1930, … - Niels Ryberg Finsen
Niels Ryberg Finsen (December 15, 1860 - September 24, 1904) was a Faroese/Danish physician and scientist. In 1903 he became the first Danish Nobel laureate. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science" - Gemma Galgani
Saint Gemma Galgani (born March 12, 1878 in Camigliano, Italy, died April 11, 1903) is a Catholic saint who was canonized by Pope Pius XII on May 2, 1940. She was the daughter of a poor pharmacist and suffered throughout her life with ill health. She was unable to finish her schooling and therefore was not accepted to become a Passionist nun. - Pablo Iglesias
Pablo Iglesias Posse (October 18, 1850, Ferrol, Galicia - December 9, 1925, Madrid) led the Spanish socialist movement. He founded the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in 1879 and the Spanish General Workers' Union (UGT) in 1888. Iglesias was born to humble parents who called him Paulino. He attended school between the ages of six and nine, when his father, a municipal laborer, died. - Andrew Clark
Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet (October 28, 1826 - November 6, 1893), Scottish physician and pathologist, was born at Aberdeen. His father, who also was a physician, died when he was only a few years old. After attending school in Aberdeen, he was sent by his guardians to Dundee, attending the High School of Dundee and was then apprenticed to a pharmacist; upon returning to Aberdeen he began his medical studies in the University there. - Ferdinand Sauerbruch
Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch (3 July 1875-2 July 1951) was a German surgeon. Sauerbruch was born in Barmen (now a district of Wuppertal), Germany. He studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg, the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, and the University of Leipzig, from the last of which he graduated in 1902. He went to Breslau in 1903, where he developed the Sauerbruch chamber, … - Sonia Brownell
Sonia Brownell (1918-1980) was the second and last wife of writer George Orwell. She was also known as Sonia Blair or Sonia Orwell. Brownell was born in Calcutta, the daughter of a British colonial official. When she was six, she was sent to the Sacred Heart Convent in Roehampton (now Woldingham School). She left at 17, and after learning French in Switzerland, took a secretarial course.
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