20th-century surgeons

al-Qaeda terrorist leader (1951–2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeon

Austrian writer (1862–1931)

Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate

South African cardiac surgeon

16th President of Taiwan (ROC) since 2024

Haitian politician and neurosurgeon (born 1949)

Argentinian cardiologist (1923-2000)

Czech physician and writer (1882-1940)

physician and former Mayor of Taipei

Chinese physician

Lithuanian physician/politician (born 1951)

Russian ophthalmologist (1875-1956)

President of Costa Risueña from 1940 to 1944

Lithuanian politician

Romanian neurosurgeon (1920–2008)

ice hockey player, doctor, and politician (1901–1988)

Danish surgeon, one of the earliest non-Africans to die of AIDS

Swedish surgeon, Olympian and art collector (1903-2001)

Burmese doctor, missionary and politician (1884-1962)

Turkish surgeon, statesperson and writer (1879–1942)

Gambian writer (1932–2009)

orthopedic surgeon (1910–1999)

Azerbaijani politician (1951-1995)

Mexican medical surgeon, writer, feminist, suffragist, trade unionist, and activist

Malaysian civil servant and endocrine surgeon

German surgeon; defendant at the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial (1892-1956)

Vietnamese physician (1942–1970)

Swiss ice hockey player (1900-1993)

Lithuanian politician

Swedish physician

South African surgeon (1926–2005)

surgeon (1891–1980)

Turkish statesperson (born 1959)

Austrian physician (1885–1973)

Iranian Azerbaijani academic (1925-2014)

Serbian politician (1957-2020)

Iraqi physician and poet

Austrian surgeon (1860-1939)

Spanish aristocrat and heart surgeon

Saudi Arabian physician

French neurosurgeon (1911–2007)

politician

Spanish physician (1914-2009)

Chadian politician

Nicaraguan doctor and feminist

Swedish inventor

Swedish surgeon (1915-2000)

Chinese scientist

Dutch professor of surgical jaw orthopedics and Olympic rower

Danish professor (1923–1998)

Uruguayan politician (1868-1951)

Croatian physician (1922–2010)

Maltese physician and politician

Guatemalan politician

Swiss surgeon (1918–2009)

Nigerian academic

Activist and politician in Morocco

Chinese surgeon (1929–2004)

Serbian physician

Argentine academic