Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner

male, deceased (1823)
Edward Jenner, FRS, (17 May, 1749 - 26 January, 1823) was an English country doctor who studied nature and his natural surroundings from childhood...
Richard Preston

Richard Preston

male, 55 years old
Richard Preston (b. August 5, 1954) is a "New Yorker" writer and bestselling author of books about alarming infectious disease epidemics and...

John Thomas

male, deceased (1776)
John Thomas was an American doctor and soldier from Massachusetts who became a major general in the Continental Army. He was a leader during the...
Larry Brilliant

Larry Brilliant

male
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, technologist, author and philanthropist. Born in Detroit, Michigan (May 5,...

James Phipps

male, deceased (1853)
James Phipps (1788-1853), as an eight year old boy, was the first person given the cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner. Phipps was exposed to the...
Donald Henderson

Donald Henderson

male, 81 years old
Donald Ainslie Henderson, known as D.A. Henderson, (born September 7, 1928) is an American physician and epidemiologist, whose work was vital in...
Zabdiel Boylston

Zabdiel Boylston

male, deceased (1766)
Zabdiel Boylston (born 1676 or 1679 in Brookline, Massachusetts; died 1766) was a medical doctor. He apprenticed with his father, an English...
Kateri Tekakwitha

Kateri Tekakwitha

female, deceased (1680)
Kateri Tekakwitha (1656 - April 17, 1680), the daughter of a Mohawk warrior and a Christian Algonquin woman, was born in the Mohawk fortress of...
William Foege

William Foege

male
William Foege, MD, MPH is an American epidemiologist who had worked extensively with smallpox, particularly its control in Nigeria. He was born in...
Huayna Capac

Huayna Capac

male, deceased (1527)
Huayna Capac was the eleventh Sapa Inca (1493 - 1527) of the Inca Empire, and sixth of the Hanan dynasty. He was the successor to Tupac Inca...