Physician Biographies

Modern era

Upendranath Brahmachari

December 19, 1873 – February 6, 1946

Indian physician (1873–1946)

Modern era

Dilip Mahalanabis

November 12, 1934 – 2022

Indian pediatrician (1934–2022)

Luke the Evangelist

d. 84 CE

One of the four evangelists

Ancient era

Saint Valentine

175 CE – February 14, 273 CE

3rd-century Roman Christian saint (175–273)

Ancient era

Empedocles

490 BCE – 430 BCE

5th century BC Greek philosopher

Ancient era

Charaka

b. c. 50 CE

Indian physician and academic

Ancient era

Sushruta

600 BCE – 500 BCE

Ancient Indian physician, father of surgery

Ancient era

Hua Tuo

c. 200 CE – 208 CE

Chinese physician (c. 140–208)

Modern era

Georges Clemenceau

September 28, 1841 – November 24, 1929

Prime Minister of France, 1906–1909 and 1917–1920 (1841–1929)

Early Modern era

Jean-Paul Marat

May 24, 1743 – July 13, 1793

Politician and journalist during the French Revolution (1743-1793)

Early Modern era

Luigi Galvani

September 9, 1737 – December 4, 1798

Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher

Early Modern era

Thomas Young

June 13, 1773 – May 10, 1829

English polymath (1773-1829)

Medieval era

Jabir ibn Hayyan

721 CE – 815 CE

8th-century Islamic alchemist and author

Early Modern era

Jons Jacob Berzelius

August 20, 1779 – August 7, 1848

Swedish chemist (1779–1848)

Contemporary era

Shinya Yamanaka

b. September 4, 1962

Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)

Modern era

William Osler

July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919

Canadian physician and co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital (1849–1919)

Modern era

Christiaan Barnard

November 8, 1922 – September 2, 2001

South African cardiac surgeon

Modern era

Karl Landsteiner

June 14, 1868 – June 26, 1943

Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate

Modern era

Paul Ehrlich

March 14, 1854 – August 20, 1915

Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)

Modern era

Gerty Cori

August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957

Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)

Modern era

Thomas Hunt Morgan

September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945

American biologist and professor from Kentucky (1866–1945)

Modern era

William James

January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910

Researcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-2506-1198

Modern era

Mikhail Bulgakov

May 3, 1891 – March 10, 1940

Russian author (1891–1940)

Early Modern era

Mungo Park

September 11, 1771 – 1806

Scottish naturalist and explorer of the African continent