- Sokei-An
Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki (1882 - 1945) was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest who was the first Zen Master to take residence on United States soil. Sokei-An went to college and graduated from the Imperial Academy of Art in Tokyo, Japan. He did mandatory military service in the Japanese Imperial Army starting in 1905 where he was sent to Manchuria. Upon release from military service in 1906, Sokei-An left for Hayward, …
- Henry Gassett Davis
Henry Gassett Davis (b. November 4 1807, Trenton, Maine - d. November 18 1896, Everett, Massachusetts) was an orthopedic surgeon. He founded the traction school of orthopedic surgery and created the first splint for traction and protection of the hip joint. Henry was a later descendent of Dolor Davis of early Cape Cod, Massachusetts. As a boy he intended to be a mechanic and a manufacturer of cotton bagging, similar to his father.
- Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi presents a comprehensive, passionate, and insightful personal account on the evolution of Iranian art cinema in Close Up - Iranian Cinema: Past, Present and Future.
- Henry Morgentaler
Henry Morgentaler, M.D., LL.D.(hc), (born March 19, 1923, in Łódź, Poland) is a Canadian gynecologist and longtime abortion activist from Montreal. Morgentaler is a Holocaust survivor. After living through Auschwitz, he accepted a United Nations scholarship that was being offered to Jewish survivors. He went to medical school in Germany while living with a German family that was forced to house him under the programme.
- Howard Stoate
Howard Geoffrey Alvan Stoate (born 14 April 1954) is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom. Stoate was a general practitioner and a Dartford Borough Councillor 1990-99, Chair of Finance 1995-97. He was elected Member of Parliament for Dartford in Kent in 1997, having previously contested the seat in 1992, and was re-elected in 2001 and 2005. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Estelle Morris between 2003 and 2005.
- Jean Turner
Dr Jean McGivern Turner (born December 23, 1939 in Glasgow) is a former Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden. Prior to her election, Turner was a General practitioner in the Springburn area in Glasgow for 25 years. Before that, she was an anaesthetist for ten years. She was lured to seek political office due to the cut in services at Stobhill Hospital. Turner also campaigned against Labour's treatment of the NHS.
- Liam Twomey
Dr. Liam Twomey is a medical doctor and former Irish Fine Gael politician. He was a Teachta Dála for the Wexford constituency from 2002 to 2007. He was the Opposition Spokesperson for Health during the 29th Dáil. However he lost his seat in the 2007 general election being eliminated after the 6th count. Liam Twomey was born in Bealad, Clonakilty, County Cork. He was educated at St. Finbarr's Seminary and Trinity College Dublin, …
- John Bodkin Adams
John Bodkin Adams was a British general practitioner, more than 160 of whose patients died under suspicious circumstances. He was tried and controversially acquitted for the murder of one patient in 1957. Another count of murder was withdrawn.
- Bill Tidy
Bill Tidy MBE (October 9 1933--) is a British cartoonist, known chiefly for his comic strips: * The Fosdyke Saga (Daily Mirror) * The Cloggies (Private Eye) * Grimbledon Down (New Scientist) * Dr. Whittle (General Practitioner) * Kegbuster (What's Brewing?)
- Eleanor Dark
Eleanor Dark (née O'Reilly was an Australian author whose novels included "Prelude to Christopher" (1934) and "Return to Coolami" (1936), both winners of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for literature. Eleanor Dark was born in Sydney, the only child of poet Dowell Philip O'Reilly. On finishing school and unable to enter university having failed mathematics, she learnt typing and took a secretarial job.
- Brian Gibbons
Dr. Brian Gibbons FRCGP, (born in Dublin, 1950) is the Labour Party Assembly Member for Aberavon since May 1999 and was appointed Welsh Assembly Government Minister for the Economy and Transport in May 2007.
- Phil Hammond
Dr Phil Hammond is a medical doctor who has become noted as a comedian and commentator on health issues in the United Kingdom. Although he still works part time as a GP he is best known for his humorous commentary on the National Health Service. He first came into the public spotlight writing a column for "The Independent" newspaper, where he wrote with a strong pro-patient-rights line.
- Harold Shipman
Harold Frederick Shipman (January 14, 1946-January 13, 2004) was an English general practitioner who was one of the most prolific known serial killers in modern history. He was better known, before his arrest, as Fred Shipman. He was convicted on 15 sample charges in 2000 and sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. He committed suicide in 2004 at HMP Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, without admitting or explaining his crimes.
- Morell MacKenzie
Sir Morell Mackenzie (July 7 1837 - February 3, 1892) was a British physician, one of the pioneers of laryngology in the United Kingdom. Morell Mackenzie was born at Leytonstone, Essex, England on July 7, 1837. He was the son of Stephen Mackenzie, a general practitioner and surgeon. After going through the medical course at the London Hospital and becoming a member to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1858, he studied abroad in Paris, …
- Rob Oudkerk
Robert (Rob) Herman Oudkerk (20 March 1955) is a Dutch politician, and general practitioner. He has served as a member of the Dutch Parliament (Tweede Kamer) for the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) and as alderman of education in Amsterdam. During his time as a local politician in Amsterdam, he was beset by scandals which eventually forced him to step down.
- Mohammad Naseem
Mohammad Naseem, born in 1924, is a former GP and the chairman of the Birmingham Mosque Trust (Birmingham Central Mosque), one of the largest and most prominent Islamic places of worship in the United Kingdom. Born in Amritsar in British India, Naseem was educated mainly in Pakistan and then in England where he trained to become and served as a General Practitioner for many years and also specialised in the medical procedure of circumcision, …
- Jeremy Lefroy
Jeremy Lefroy is a British Conservative politician. Lefroy was selected as the Conservative Parliamentary spokesman for the Stafford constituency on 11 August, 2006 and will fight the seat at the next general election. He is currently the Conservative Councillor for the Westlands ward of Newcastle-under-Lyme Council. Since a Conservative-led joint administration with the Liberal Democrats took control from Labour in May 2006, …
- Hugh Dennis
Hugh Dennis (born Peter Dennis in 1962) is a British actor, comedian, voice-over artist and writer. He was educated at University College School, an independent school for boys in Hampstead, in North London, and at St John's College, University of Cambridge. A skilled impressionist, Dennis did voices for "Spitting Image" and with comedy partner Steve Punt, whom he met at university, …
- Vernon Coleman
Vernon Coleman (born in Walsall, West Midlands, England) is a British writer. A former general practitioner, he is the author of 90 books, including non-fiction works about human health, politics, cricket, and animal issues, and a range of novels. According to his website, his books have sold over two million copies in the UK, and have been translated into 23 languages. One of his novels, 'Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War', has been turned into a movie starring Pauline Collins.
- Kieran Deeny
Kieran Deeny (born October 12 1954) is a Northern Irish medical doctor turned politician, and an independent Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for West Tyrone, having run on a single issue ticket of retaining the Tyrone County Hospital in Omagh. Born in Downpatrick, Deeny was educated at St. Patrick's Boy's Primary School and St. Patrick's De La Salle Grammar School, both in Downpatrick. During this time he regularly partipated in several sports, …
- Archer John Porter Martin
Archer John Porter Martin (1 March 1910 in London - 28 July 2002) was a British chemist and Nobel Prize winner. His father was a GP. He was educated at Bedford School and Cambridge University. Working first in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, he moved to the Dunn Nutritional Laboratory, and in 1938 moved to Wool Industries Research Institution in Leeds. He was head of the Biochemistry Division of Boots Pure Drug Company from 1946 to 1948, …
- Tom Patey
Tom Patey (20 February 1932 - 25 May 1970) was a Scottish climber, mountaineer and writer. Although he was a leading Scottish climber of his day, particularly excelling on winter routes, he his probably best known for his humorous writings about climbing, many of which were published posthumously in the collection "One Man's Mountains". He was born in Scotland and educated in Aberdeen at Ellon Academy and Robert Gordon's College.
- Michael Winstanley Baron Winstanley
Michael Platt Winstanley, Baron Winstanley, (27 August 1918 - 18 July 1993) was the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheadle from 1966 to 1970, and after boundary changes, MP for the Hazel Grove half of his old seat from February to October of 1974. He was originally a GP in Urmston as well as a noted media personality, as a television and radio doctor in the 1960s, and hosting Granada TV's "This Is Your Right" consumer advice show in the 1970s.
- Ian McWhinney
Ian Renwick McWhinney, OC, FRCGP, FCFP, FRCP, (born October 11, 1926) is a Canadian physician and academic known as the "Father of Family Medicine" for his work in creating a family medicine program at the University of Western Ontario. Born in Burnley, England, he studied at Cheltenham College from 1940 to 1944. During World War II, he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps. After the war, he studied at Clare College, Cambridge and at St.
- Maurice Leclair
J. Maurice LeClair (born 1927) is a Canadian physician, businessman, civil servant, and academic. Born in Sayabec, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947 and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1951 from McGill University. In 1953, he became a General Practitioner in Shawinigan, Quebec. In 1955, he became a Fellow at the Mayo Clinic and received a Master of Science in Medicine in 1958 from the University of Minnesota.
- Phil Drabble
Phil Drabble OBE (born May 13, 1914) is an English countryman, author and television presenter. Raised in the Black Country, he later lived in - and wrote mostly about - the countryside of north Worcestershire and at Abbots Bromley in south Staffordshire, where he created a nature reserve. He was an only child, whose mother died when he was young. His father was a GP and they lived in a terraced house in Bloxwich.
- Jean Reverzy
Jean Reverzy (1914-1959) is a French general practitioner from Lyon who won the Prix Renaudot in 1954 for "Le Passage" ("The Passage"), his first novel. It described the slow anguish of a patient with liver problems who returned with a tired wahine of Polynesia. It is a fascinating description of the passage from life to death, in a raw and realistic manner, including poetic nostalgia. Another work, "Place des angoisses" ("Place of Anguishes"), …
- Peter Brand
Peter Brand (born 1947) is a United Kingdom general practitioner and Liberal Democrat politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight at the 1997 general election, but lost his seat to the Conservatives at the 2001 election.
- Claire Weekes
Claire Hazel Weekes (1903-1990) was an Australian general practitioner and health writer; she also had an early career as a research scientist working in the field of comparative reproduction. Weekes found that many of her patients suffered from neurotic conditions, such as anxiety attacks, phobias and obsessive-compulsive neurosis.
- Alyson Jones
Dr. Alyson Jones (b. 1956) is a British GP and former swimming champion. She was born in Middlesbrough in North-East England and attended local schools. She began training as a competitive swimmer at local clubs such as Eston and Hartlepool, winning several titles in the Northumberland and Durham Swimming Association. In 1974, at age 17, she competed in the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, winning a bronze medal in the 4 by 100 m. freestyle relay.
- Gerard Wall
Sir Gerard Aloysius Wall FRCS (24 January 1920 - 1992). Was Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987. Born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was educated at St Bede's College then Canterbury and Otago University graduating with an MBChB. After graduation he worked as a House Surgeon in Christchurch and as a General practitioner in Denniston on the West Coast. He married Uru Raupo Cameron in 1951.
- Ewen Neil McQueen
Dr Ewen Neil McQueen M.A.,D.Sc., (1889-1967) was an Australian Headmaster, prominent educational innovator, scientist, psychologist and General Practitioner.. He was most often known as Neil McQueen or E. Neil McQueen.
- Joachim Mrugowsky
Joachim Mrugowsky Hygienist. Associate Professor, Medical Doctorate, Chief of Hygiene Institute of the Waffen-SS. Senior Hygienist at the Reich Physician SS, SS and Walfen SS Colonel, defendant in the Doctors Trial. His father was a general practitioner, who was killed at the beginning of World War I. In 1925, Joachim Mrugovsky began his studies of natural sciences and medicine in Halle.
- Adolph Kussmaul
Adolph Kussmaul was a German physician and a leading clinician of his time. He was born as the son and grandson of physicians at Graben near Karlsruhe and studied at Heidelberg. He entered the army after graduation and spent two years as an army surgeon. This was followed by a period as a general practitioner before he went to Würzburg to study for his doctorate under Virchow. He was subsequently Professor of Medicine at Heidelberg (1857), Erlangen (1859), …
- David Dale
David Dale is an Australian author and journalist. He contributes a popular culture column called The Tribal Mind to "The Sydney Morning Herald", and a column called 'Who We Are' to "The Sun-Herald". David Dale graduated from Sydney University with honours in psychology, and then pursued journalism. He has been a political reporter for "The Australian", a sub-editor for "General Practitioner" (London), features editor of "The Sun-Herald", …
- John Lykoudis
John Lykoudis (born 1910 in Missolonghi, died 1980) was a general practitioner in Greece who treated patients from peptic ulcer disease with antibiotics long before it was commonly recognized that bacteria were a dominant cause for the disease. After treating himself for peptic ulcer disease with antibiotics in 1958 and finding the treatment effective he began treating patients with antibiotics.
- David Oliver Cauldwell
David Oliver Cauldwell, MD & Sc.D, (17 June 1897 - 30 August 1959) was a prolific and pioneering sexologist, who reputedly coined the term “transsexual”, and many of whose monographs on sex, psychology, or health were published by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius in such forms as Little Blue Books. Cauldwell was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After several years as a private general practitioner, Cauldwell became an Associate Medical Officer of the Department of War, …
- Frans de Wever
Frans de Wever (1869 - 1940) was a Dutch General Practitioner, Municipal doctor, rail doctor, mining doctor, and hospital founder
- David Ferdinando
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