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Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
Joseph Plateau
Belgian physicist (1801–1883)
Helen B. Taussig
Jewish-American cardiologist (1898-1986)
Charles Krauthammer
American journalist (1950-2018)
Patch Adams
American physician, activist, diplomat and author
Peter Mark Roget
English physician and philologist (1779-1869)
Marietta Giannakou
Greek politician (1951–2022)
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
American German-born psychiatrist & psychoanalyst
Jianzhen
Jianzhen (688–763), also known by his Japanese name Ganjin (), was a Tang Chinese monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In the eleven years from 743 to 754, Jianzhen attempted to visit Japan some six times, arriving in the year 753 and founding Tōshōdai-ji in Nara. When he finally succeeded on his sixth attempt, he had lost his eyesight as a result of an infection acquired during his journeys, although Fukushima Giichi, a Japanese expert in the history of ophthalmology, suggested that he may have suffered from age related cataracts . Jianzhen's life story and voyage are described in
Hermann Becker-Freyseng
German physician; consultant for aviation medicine with the Luftwaffe during the Nazi era; one of those convicted at the Doctors' Trial (1910-1961)
Bernard Spilsbury
British pathologist (1877–1947)
Lauretta Bender
American neuropsychiatrist (1897–1987)
Linda Laubenstein
American physicien and medical researcher on AIDS
Whang Youn Dai
South Korean doctor
Asael Lubotzky
Israeli physician, writer and researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-0460-0084)
Susana Rodríguez Gacio
Spanish doctor and paratriathlete
Mary Verghese
Indian physician
Ibn Baks
physician
Philip Verheyen
Flemish physician
Guido Holzknecht
Austrian radiologist (1872-1931)
Anam Najam
Pakistani medical doctor and psychiatrist
Mélanie Lipinska
Polish-French physician and historian
William Lindsay Brandon
American medical doctor, politician and soldier
Ronan Tynan
Irish singer
Doctor Mid-Nite
DC Comics superhero
Thomas David Morrison
reform politician and doctor in York/Toronto
Cheri Blauwet
American wheelchair racer
Antonio Guidi
Italian politician
James Hall
first governor of Maryland in Liberia (1802-1889)
Jacob Bolotin
American physician (1888-1924)
Russell Bencraft
English cricketer (1858–1943)
Suresh H. Advani
oncologist, pioneered Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in India, poliomyelitis at the age of 8 years