- John Lattimer
Dr. John Kingsley Lattimer (October 14, 1914, in Mount Clemens, Michigan - May 10, 2007 in Teaneck, New Jersey) was a urologist who did extensive research on the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, becoming the first medical specialist not affiliated with the United States government to examine the medical evidence related to the John F. Kennedy assassination.
- Hugh H. Young
Hugh Hampton Young, MD was an American surgeon, urologist, and medical researcher. Born in San Antonio, Texas on September 18 1870, he graduated from the University of Virginia in 1891 after acquiring BA, MA, and MD degrees in just four years. As of 1895 he began teaching at Johns Hopkins Institute and by 1897 he was the head of their urology department, at an age of just 27. He would remain there for most of his life, until 1940.
- Lall Sawh
Lall Ramnath Sawh C.M.T., FRCS (Edin), born 1 June 1951 is one of the most celebrated Urologists in the Caribbean and Latin America. Based in Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Sawh introduced Kidney transplantation and button-hole Surgery to the Caribbean in 1988 and since then, he has continued to be a pioneer in the field of Urology. In 1994, Dr. Sawh implemented the use of the first Dornier Lithotripsy machine in Trinidad, thereby revolutionizing the treatment of Kidney stones.
- Aaron J. Fink
Aaron J. Fink, M.D., (d. 1990) was a California urologist who believed that male neonatal circumcision was ordained by the Bible and medically necessary. Fink authored "Circumcision: A Decision for Life", in which he outlined his arguments in favour of circumcision. One of Fink's arguments was that circumcision could prevent HIV infection. Several authors, eg., Weiss et al. attribute the origin of this idea to Fink (Alcena, however, …
- Max Nitze
Max Nitze (1848 - 1906) was a German urologist.
- Maximilian Nitze
Maximilian Carl-Friedrich Nitze was a German urologist who was born in Berlin. He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Würzburg and Leipzig. In 1874 he earned his doctorate, and subsequently became a medical assistant at the city hospital in Dresden. During the 1880s, Nitze founded a private urology hospital in Berlin. He later became a professor of urology at the University of Berlin. Nitze was a specialist regarding kidney and other urological disorders.
- Jean Civiale
Jean Civiale (1792-1867) was a French surgeon and urologist, who invented in 1823 a surgical instrument (the lithotrite) and performed transurethral lithotripsy, the first known minimally invasive surgery, to crush stones inside the bladder without having to open the abdomen (lithotomy). To remove a calculus, Civiale inserted his instrument through the urethra and bored holes in the stone.
- David Hampton
David Hampton (1964-2003) was an African-American con artist who gained infamy in the 1980s after bilking a group of wealthy Manhattanites out of thousands of dollars by convincing them he was Sidney Poitier's son. His story became the inspiration for a play and later a movie, titled "Six Degrees of Separation".
- Ahmad Ghany
Born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario, Ahmad Mustafa Ghany is one of 17 people arrested in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests. His father, Farouk Abdul Ghany, is an Ontario urologist from Trinidad and Tobago. Ahmad Mustafa Ghany moved to Saudi Arabia when his parents secured a teaching position at King Saud University. When the family returned to Canada after the death of their eldest of three sons, …
- William Cheselden
William Cheselden (October 19, 1688 - April 10, 1752) was an English surgeon and teacher of anatomy and surgery, who was influential in establishing surgery as a scientific medical profession.
- Jean Casimir Félix Guyon
Jean Casimir Félix Guyon was a French surgeon and urologist who was born on Ile-Bourbon (Réunion). He studied medicine in Paris and received his doctorate in 1858. For much of Guyon's career, he was a surgeon at Hôpital Necker and a professor in Paris. In 1890 he became the first Professor of Urology in Paris. In 1907 Guyon and a handful of other urologists established the International Association of Urology.
- Michel Debré
Michel Debré was a French politician. Debré was born in Paris. An associate of Charles de Gaulle, he served under the General as Minister of Justice (1958-1959), Prime Minister (1959 to 1962), Minister of Economics (1966-1968) and Foreign Minister (1968 to 1969), and under his successor Georges Pompidou as Defense Minister (1969-1973). Michel Debré oversaw the drafting of the constitution of the French Fifth Republic, also called the Constitution of 1958.
- Dimitrie Gerota
Dimitrie D. Gerota (July 17, 1867 - March 3, 1939), Romanian anatomist, physician, radiologist, urologist, and an associated member of the Romanian Academy from 1916.
- Joaquín Albarrán
Joaquín Albarrán, full name Joaquin Albarrán Maria y Dominguez was a French urologist who was born in Sagua La Grande, Cuba. In 1878 he went to Paris, where he worked and studied under many renowned physicians. Albarrán regarded anatomist Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835-1922) and urologist Jean Casimir Félix Guyon (1831-1920) as major influences in his career. In 1906 he succeeded Guyon as director of the Clinic of Urology at the Hôpital Necker.
- Mohammad-Reza Khatami
Seyyed Mohammad Reza Khatami (also known as Reza Khatami, born 1959 in Ardakan, Iran) is an Iranian politician. He was the first Secretary-General of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the largest Iranian reformist party. He is now a member of the central council of the party. He is also the younger brother of the fifth Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, and the former deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament.
- George Buckston Browne
Sir George Buckston Browne FRCS (1850-1945) was a British medical doctor and pioneer urologist. In 1927 he bought Charles Darwin's former home Down House and founded the Buckston Brown Research Farm in Downe in 1931. The Buckston Browne Prize is named for him.
- Leopold Ritter von Dittel
Leopold Ritter von Dittel (May 29, 1815 - July 28, 1898) was an Austrian urologist who was born in Fulnek, which is now located in the Czech Republic. Dittel received his medical doctorate in 1840 from the University of Vienna, and was associated with the university for most of his career. Dittel is known for establishing urology as an independent field of medicine at the University of Vienna.
- Felix Legueu
Felix Legueu was a French urologist and gynecologist who was born in Angers. He was a clinical professor in Paris and a surgeon at Hôpital Necker. He was a member of the Académie de Médecine. Legueu was a highly-regarded surgeon involving genitourinary disorders. In 1913 he described a surgical technique concerning vesicovaginal fistulae (VVF). A VVF is an abnormal passageway between the bladder and vagina.
- Christopher Woodhouse 6th Baron Terrington
Professor Christopher Richard James Woodhouse, 6th Baron Terrington (b. September 20 1946) is a British peer and a senior urologist. Lord Terrington was born in 1946, the son of Colonel Christopher Woodhouse. He was educated at Guy's Hospital Medical School from 1964 and became a urinary surgeon in 1970. He married Hon. Anna Philipps, the daughter of Hugo John Laurence Philipps, 3rd Baron Milford, in 1975.
- Susan Tannenbaum
Susan Tannenbaum is a retired lobbyist for the consumer activist group Common Cause in Washington, D.C. Her focus was the environment. Tannenbaum was once a member of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign staff until his assassination. Susan Tannenbaum is the daughter of Greensboro, NC civic leaders, the late Leah Louise Baach Tannenbaum, a descendant of the German Jews who emigrated to the South in the 1800s, and the late Dr. A. Jack Tannenbaum, …
- Federico Ortiz Quezada
Federico Ortiz Quezada is a Mexican urologist born in Mexico City in 1935. He received his MD from the National University of México in 1959. He finished his training in urology at the Hospital General of Mexico City and Cornell University in New York, from 1959 to 1963. He served as head of the urology department at the National Medical Center in México and adviser to the Instituto Mexicano of Social Security from 1963 to 1973.
- Gholam-Reza Pourmand
Gholam Reza Pourmand is a notable Iranian (Persian) urologist and medical scientists. He is currently a full Professor of Urology and director of "Renal Transplantation Research Center" of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Prof Pourmand has published numerous research articles in Urology in peer reviewed international journals. His novel prostate surgical method attracted the medical community throughout the world.
- Frère Jacques Beaulieu
Frère Jacques Beaulieu was a travelling lithotomist with scant knowledge of anatomy and was also a Dominican friar. Beaulieu performed the frequently deadly procedure in France into the early 1700s. The urologic community often claims Beaulieu is subject of the French nursery rhyme "Frère Jacques", but this is not well-established.
- Sir Henry Thompson 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet (1820-1904), British surgeon and polymath, was born at Framlingham, Suffolk, on August 6 1820. His father wished him to enter business, but circumstances ultimately enabled him to follow his own desire of becoming a physician, and in 1848 he entered the Medical School of University College London. There he had a brilliant career, and obtained his degree at London University in 1851 with the highest honors in anatomy and surgery.
- Joannes Actuarius
Joannes Zacharias Actuarius (c. 1275-c. 1328) was a Byzantine physician in Constantinople. He wrote several books on medicinal subjects, particularly, an extensive treatise about the urines and uroscopy. Around 1299, he considered moving to Thessaloniki, but decided to stay in Constantinople; later, he was appointed chief physician to the Emperor. Some of his works have been translated into Latin, and published in the 16th century.
- Dr Dix Phillip Poppas MD
- Dr Lawrence R Strawbridge MD
- Dr Manish Shah MD
- Dr David Mark Spellberg MD
- Dr William M Figlesthaler MD
- Dr Jerold Grubman MD
- Dr Felix Luis Badillo MD
- Dr Patricia Anne Gabow MD
- Dr Dov Kadmon MD
- Dr Larry I Lipshultz MD
- Dr Stanley Allan Brosman MD
- Dr Paul F Schellhammer MD
Dr. Schellhammer, who has published more than 200 medical articles in scientific journals, joined the EVMS faculty in 1974 and served as Chairman of the Department of Urology from early 1990 until July of 2000. He received the Dean's Faculty Achievement Award for Clinical Service in 1992. Dr. Schellhammer is a Professor of Urology, a partner in Devine-Tidewater Urology, Ltd., and is internationally recognized for his expertise in the treatment of prostate cancer.
- Dr Mark Gerard Delworth MD
- Dr Hillel Y Marans MD
- Dr Shlomo Raz MD
Shlomo Raz , MD Professor of Urology Co-Director, Division of Female Urology, Reconstructive Surgery and Urodynamics UCLA Westwood