- Tommy John
Thomas Edward John Jr. (born May 22 1943 in Terre Haute, Indiana) is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball whose 288 career victories rank as the 5th highest total among lefthanders in major league history. He is also known for the revolutionary surgery, now named after him, which was performed on a damaged ligament in his pitching arm. - Jerry Lamon Falwell Jr
Last week, the city of Lynchburg, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the entire country lost one of our dearest sons in the passing of Rev. Falwell. Today Dr. Falwell was laid to rest. I am sad that business here in Washington kept many of us from being able to attend today's services, but since we were unable to attend, we have joined here tonight to pay homage to this great leader. Dr. Falwell's legacy is one that will not soon be forgotten. - Michael E. Debakey
Michael Ellis DeBakey (born Michel Dabaghi on September 7, 1908, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States) is a pioneering cardiovascular surgeon and researcher. His motto is "Strive for nothing less than excellence." - Jayant Patel
Jayant Mukundray Patel (born April 10, 1950) is a surgeon who found himself at the centre of a scandal in early 2005 when he was accused of gross incompetence while working at Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland, Australia. He has been nicknamed "Doctor Death" in Australian media, particularly newspapers such as News Ltd's "The Courier-Mail". - John Hunter
John Hunter (February 13, 1728 - October 16, 1793) was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of the application of rigorous scientific experimentation in medicine. - John White
John White (c. 1756 - 20 February 1832) was an English surgeon and botanical collector. White was the principal surgeon during the First Fleet to Australia. White arrived in Australia in 1788 as Surgeon-General of New South Wales. He wrote "A Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales" (1790), which described many species of Australian flora and fauna for the first time. He was the first to describe the South-East Asian frog "Litoria caerulea", … - Aaron Cook
Aaron Lane Cook (born February 8, 1979 in Fort Campbell, Kentucky) is a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher currently playing for the Colorado Rockies. He has played with the Rockies for his entire Major League career, spanning from 2002 onwards. Cook saw his 2004 season come to an abrupt end when it was discovered that he suffers pulmonary embolism, or blood clots. During an August 7 start against the Cincinnati Reds, … - John Murray
Sir John Murray KCB (3 March 1841 – 6 March 1914) was a pioneering Scots-Canadian oceanographer and marine biologist. Murray was born at Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, to Scottish parents who had emigrated seven years earlier. He returned to Scotland to study, firstly at Stirling High School, and then at the University of Edinburgh, but soon left to join a whaling expedition to Spitsbergen as ships' surgeon in 1868. - Robert Brown
Robert Brown (December 21, 1773-June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of the 19th century. Brown was born in Montrose, Scotland on 21 December 1773. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he was a classmate of Thomas Dick. He joined the army as a surgeon in 1795. - Andrew Smith
Dr. Sir Andrew Smith KCB (December 3, 1797 - August 12, 1872) was a Scottish surgeon, naturalist, explorer and zoologist. Smith was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire. He obtained a good education by diligence and hard work and qualified in medicine at Edinburgh University obtaining an M.D. in 1819, having joined the Army Medical Services in 1816. - Denton Cooley
Denton Arthur Cooley (born August 22, 1920) is a pioneering American Heart surgeon. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity - Tau Chapter and graduated in 1941 from the University of Texas, then went on to complete his medical degree and his... - Nathan Smith
Nathan Smith was one of New England’s best-known and respected physicians. He was a skilled surgeon, teacher, writer, and practitioner. At a time when most American physicians were poorly educated, he single-handedly founded Dartmouth Medical School, and co-founded the University of Vermont College of Medicine, the medical school at Bowdoin College, and the Yale School of Medicine. Initially the only member of the Dartmouth Medical School faculty, Smith taught anatomy, … - Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (November 8, 1922 - September 2, 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon. He is famous for performing the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant. - John Richardson
Sir John Richardson (November 5, 1787 - June 5, 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer. Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He travelled with John Franklin between 1819 and 1822 in search of the Northwest Passage. Richardson wrote the sections on geology, botany and icthyology for the official account of the expedition. - Bernie Siegel
Dr. Bernie Siegel MD was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Colgate University and graduated with honors from Cornell University Medical College. He practiced general medicine and pediatric surgery until his retirement in 1989. He is the author of several books on the relationship between the patient and the healing process as it manifests throughout one's life. He is an avid lecturer in the medical and spiritual communities. Dr. - 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, … - William Cullen
William Cullen was a Scottish doctor and chemist. Cullen was born at Hamilton, Lanarkshire. He received his early education at the grammar school of Hamilton, and he appears to have subsequently attended some classes at the University of Glasgow. He began his medical career as apprentice to John Paisley, a Glasgow surgeon, and after completing his apprenticeship he became surgeon to a merchant vessel trading between London and the West Indies. - Daniel Hale Williams
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856 - August 4, 1931) was an African-American surgeon. Williams is known today for performing an early surgery on the pericardium, repairing a knife wound with the use of sutures. Daniel Hale Williams was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, to Daniel and Sarah Price Williams. In 1883, Williams graduated from the Chicago Medical College, … - Jacques Rogge
Count Jacques Rogge (born May 2, 1942 in Ghent, Belgium) is by profession an orthopedic surgeon. He is the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Born in Ghent, Dr. Count Rogge competed in yachting in the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, and played on the Belgian national rugby union team. Rogge served as president of the Belgian Olympic Committee from 1989 to 1992, and as president of the European Olympic Committees from 1989 to 2001. - William Cowper
William Cowper (c.1666 - March 8, 1709) was an English surgeon and anatomist, famous for his early description of what is now known as the Cowper's gland. Cowper was born in Petersfield, Hampshire, and he was apprenticed to a London surgeon, William Bignall, in March of 1682. He was admitted to the Barber-Surgeon's Company in 1691 and began practicing in London the same year. In 1694, he published his noted work, "Myotomia Reformata, … - William Anderson
William Anderson FRCS (18 December 1842 - 27 0ctober 1900), was a Scottish surgeon, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy in London, and an important collector and scholar of Japanese art. He was the first chairman of the Japan Society. Between 1882 and 1900, Anderson donated his collection of approximately 2000 of Japanese illustrated woodcut books to what is now the British Library. - Robert Patterson
Robert Patterson (1743-1824) was an American educator and director of the mint. He was born near Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, emigrated to the United States in 1768, and lived for a time in Philadelphia. In 1774 he became principal of an academy in Wilmington, Del. In the dispute between the Colonies and the British ministry he allied himself with the Whig or Patriot party, … - Jean-Michel Dubernard
Jean-Michel Dubernard is a medical doctor specializing in transplant surgery, as well as a Deputy in the current French National Assembly. Dr. Dubernard is most famous for performing the first successful hand transplant on Clint Hallam on September 23, 1998, the first successful double hand transplant shortly thereafter (but not announced until January 14, 2004), and the first partial face transplant on Isabelle Dinoire on November 27, 2005. - James Parkinson
James Parkinson (April 11, 1755 - December 21, 1824) was an English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist. He is most famous for his 1817 work, "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy", in which he was the first to describe paralysis agitans, a condition that would later be named Parkinson's Disease after him. - Agnes Hunt
Dame Agnes Gwendoline Hunt DBE RRC (31 December 1866-24 July 1948) is generally recognized as the first orthopaedic nurse. She was born in Baschurch, a village in north Shropshire, England and was disabled from osteomyelitis of the hip that she suffered from as a child following septicaemia. - Gary Schwartz
Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is a professor of Psychology teaching courses in psychology in the departments of Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona. He is also the Director of The VERITAS Research Program of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Schwartz is the co-author of "The Living Energy Universe", … - Vivian Liberto
Vivian Liberto was the first wife of country singer Johnny Cash. Liberto met Johnny Cash in 1950 at a roller skating rink in San Antonio, Texas three weeks before the Air Force deployed him to Germany. At the time, she was still a senior at Providence High School, an all-girl Catholic school in San Antonio. During Cash's military tour overseas, the couple wrote each other over 10,000 pages of love letters. On July 3, 1954, Cash was discharged from the Air Force. - Laynce Nix
Laynce Michael Nix (born October 30, 1980 in Houston, Texas) is a Major League Baseball outfielder known for his spectacular outfield catches. He currently plays for the Milwaukee Brewers. Nix attended Midland High School in Midland, Texas, where he played both football and baseball. In addition to starting at quarterback for the football team, Nix was named to the All-Permian Basin Baseball Team before graduating in 2000. - Colby Lewis
Colby Preston Lewis (born August 2, 1979, in Bakersfield, California) is a pitcher currently playing for the Oakland Athletics. He was recalled from the Tigers' AAA team the Toledo Mud Hens on July 26, 2006. Lewis was originally a first round draft choice (sandwich pick) of the Texas Rangers in 1999, and made his major league debut in 2002. While Lewis was a highly regarded prospect coming up in the Ranger system, … - Naresh Trehan
Dr. Naresh Trehan, an internationally renowned surgeon and medical administrator, is founder, executive director and chief cardiovascular surgeon for Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center, one of the world's leading heart institutes. Dr. Trehan has served as personal surgeon to the President of India since 1991, has received numerous awards for distinguished service in medicine, and been president of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. - Umberto Veronesi
Umberto Veronesi (born November 29, 1925) is an Italian surgeon and oncologist, internationally known for his contributions on prevention and treatment of breast cancer throughout a career spanning over fifty years. - Greg Kihn
Greg Kihn (born July 10, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a U.S. pop musician. He is of Polish descent. He is the front man for the Greg Kihn Band, who are perhaps best known for their hit single "Jeopardy". Other popular songs include "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" and "Lucky." "Jeopardy" later served as the basis for a parody ("I Lost on Jeopardy") by Weird Al Yankovic. Beginning in 1976, The Greg Kihn Band put out several albums on the Beserkley Records label. - Henry Gray
Henry Gray (1827-1861) was an English anatomist and surgeon and also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) at the young age of 25. - Abraham Colles
Abraham Colles (July 23, 1773 - 1843) was professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was born into a wealthy family near Milmount, a townsland near Kilkenny, Ireland. His family owned the Black Quarry which produced the famous Black Kilkenny Marble. While he was in grammar school, there was a flood in which a local physician's house was destroyed. - Jerry White
Jerry White is co-founder with Ken Rutherford of the Landmine Survivors Network (LSN). While hiking with friends from Hebrew University, Jerusalem in April 1984, he stepped on a land mine. He learnt to walk with a prosthesis following five operations at a Tel Aviv hospital. Before he began the LSN, White had been an activist campaigning against weapons of mass destruction and had been interviewed or published in newspapers and journals such as "The New York Times", … - Richard Selzer
Richard Selzer is a surgeon and author. He was born and raised in Troy, New York, USA. - Alton Ochsner
Alton Ochsner (May 4, 1896 - September 6, 1981) was a surgeon and medical researcher who worked at Tulane University and other New Orleans hospitals before he established his own world-renowned The Ochsner Clinic. Reared in a small South Dakota town, Ochsner was an unlikely hero of southern medicine. He was recruited to Tulane from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. - C. Walton Lillehei
C(larence) Walt(on) Lillehei (October 23, 1918-July 5, 1999), was an American surgeon who pioneered open-heart surgery, as well as numerous techniques, equipment and prostheses for cardiothoracic surgery. C. Walt Lillehei was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He earned five degrees at the University of Minnesota, including his B.S. (with distinction) in 1939, his M.D. (Alpha Omega Alpha) in 1942, his M.S. in physiology in 1951, and his Ph.D. in surgery in 1951. - William Gilbert
William Gilbert, (May 20 1804 - January 3 1890) was a British novelist and naval surgeon, and the author of several popular fantasy stories in the 1860s and 1870s. He is perhaps best remembered, however, as the father of dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911). The elder William Gilbert was born at Bishopstoke, Hants. He was raised in London and later resided in the Close at Salisbury, where he died. He first married Mary Ann Skelton, who died two years later, … - Theodor Billroth
Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (born 26 August 1829 in Bergen auf Rügen, Germany; died 6 February 1894 in Opatija, Austria-Hungary, now Croatia), a German-born Austrian surgeon, is generally regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. Billroth worked from 1853-1860 at the Charité. He was apprenticed to Carl von Langenbuch and practiced surgery at Vienna, …
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