1. Lyman Hall (1724)

American Physician

Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the 16th Governor of Georgia who worked to secure medical provisions for the Revolutionary Armies. His work in his state led to the...

2. Nathaniel Chapman (1780)

American Physician

Famous physician and founder of the American Medical Association and the American Journal of the Medical Sciences.

3. Daniel Freeman (1826)

American Physician

Doctor and Civil War soldier remembered for his role in two important legal decisions of the late nineteenth century. Not only was he the first person to claim land under...

4. Deidre Downs (1980)

American Physician

Best known for winning the Miss America pageant title in 2005, this southerner had previously served as Miss Alabama 2004.

5. Mary Calderone (1904)

American Physician

American doctor and advocate of sex education. She headed SIECUS (the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States) for three decades and also served as director of Planned...

6. Orvan Hess (1906)

American Physician

Inventor of the first fetal heart monitor who was the first doctor to successfully use penicillin in treatment.

7. Mason Andrews (1919)

American Physician

Doctor who delivered America's first in vitro baby. He also served as the President of the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society.

8. Thomas Starzl (1926)

American Physician

Doctor known for his groundbreaking work in the field of human organ transplantation. During the 1960s, he became the first surgeon to successfully transplant a human liver.

9. Deborah Birx (1956)

American Physician

Physician and diplomat who is recognized for her contributions to HIV/AIDS immunology and vaccine research. In early 2020, she was appointed to the White House Coronavirus Task Force. 

10. F. Charles Brunicardi (1954)

American Physician

. Charles Brunicardi is an American physician. On July 1 2011 Brunicardi rejoined the UCLA faculty as Moss Foundation Professor of Gastrointestinal and Personalized Surgery and Chief of General Surgery...

11. Aletha Maybank (1974)

American Physician

Dr. Karen Aletha Maybank is an American physician with family roots in Antigua. She is board certified in both pediatrics and preventive medicine/public health. Currently Dr. Maybank is an Assistant...

12. George Minot (1885)

American Physician

George Richards Minot was an American medical researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Murphy for their pioneering work on pernicious anemia.

13. Margaret Chung (1889)

American Physician

Margaret Jessie Chung October 2 1889 – January 5 1959) born in Santa Barbara California was the first known American-born Chinese female physician.

14. Ivan Rusilko (1984)

American Physician

Dr. Ivan Rusilko D. O. is a weight-loss wellness physical-enhancement and sexual-health physician Co-Founder at Club Essentia Wellness Retreat at Delano in Miami Beach Florida and is the owner...

15. Robert M. Jacobson (1958)

American Physician

Robert Martin Jacobson leads the Employee and Community Health Research Initiative at Mayo Clinic. He is the former chair of the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at the Mayo...

16. Lester Grinspoon (1928)

American Physician

Dr. Lester Grinspoon is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Grinspoon was senior psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston for 40 years. Dr. Grinspoon...

17. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff (1810)

American Physician

Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff Sr. was an American politician serving as the twentieth mayor of Boston Massachusetts from January 6 1868 to January 2 1871. Shurtleff who had been the...

18. M. Stephen Heilman (1933)

American Physician

Marlin Stephen Doc Heilman is an American physician entrepreneur and inventor. Among other things he is credited with inventions in the fields of flow-controlled angiographic power injection implantable cardiac defibrillators...

19. Nathaniel Peabody (1741)

American Physician

Nathaniel Peabody was an American physician from Rockingham County New Hampshire. He represented New Hampshire as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1779 and 1780. Nathaniel was born to...

20. John Travers Wood (1878)

American Physician

John Travers Wood was a physician and one-term congressman from northern Idaho.

21. Clara D. Bloomfield (1942)

American Physician

Clara D. Bloomfield MD is an American physician and cancer researcher. Her work has focused on the genetic changes that are present in certain types of blood cancers and how...

22. Charles Schleien (1953)

American Physician

Charles Lawrence Schleien is Chair of Pediatrics and Pediatrician-in-Chief at North Shore-LIJ as of May 1 2012. Dr. Schleien has been a Director of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; Professor of...

23. Robert Aronowitz (1953)

American Physician

Robert Allan Aronowitz is an American physician and medical historian based at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Making Sense of Illness and Unnatural History: Breast Cancer...

24. Rick Hodes (1953)

American Physician

Rick Hodes is an American doctor specializing in cancer heart disease and spinal conditions. Since the 1980s he has worked in Ethiopia and has adopted a number of children from...

25. Dean Ornish (1953)

American Physician

Dean Michael Ornish is a physician and president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito California as well as Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University...

26. Judith Steinberg Dean (1953)

American Physician

Judith Steinberg Dean M. D. is a physician from Burlington Vermont. She is the wife of Howard Dean the Democratic former Governor of Vermont and past chairman of the...

27. Leonid Poretsky (1954)

American Physician

Dr. Leonid Poretsky is a Russian-born American endocrinologist. His research interests include mechanisms of insulin action in the ovary endocrinological aspects of AIDS and clinical outcomes in diabetes.

28. Harold Reitman (1950)

American Physician

Harold “Hackie” Stuart Reitman M. D. is a Jewish American orthopedic surgeon former professional boxer entrepreneur and philanthropist. Reitman fought as a professional heavyweight boxer while working full-time as...

29. Richard E. Besser (Unknow)

American Physician

Richard E. Besser is an American physician who is ABC News's Chief Health and Medical editor and formerly the acting director of the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

30. George R. Vincent (1841)

American Physician

George R. Vincent was an American physician from Tomah Wisconsin who spent one term as a Greenbacker member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Monroe County.

31. Stuart Fischer (1950)

American Physician

Stuart Fischer M. D. is a physician best known for creating The Park Avenue Diet and has also authored a book by the same name. Fischer Stuart: The Park...

32. William H. Thomas (physician) (1959)

American Physician

Dr. Bill Thomas is an international authority on geriatric medicine and eldercare from upstate New York. He is the founder of the Eden Alternative a philosophy and program that de-institutionalized...

33. W. M. Salisbury (1865)

American Physician

Monroe Salisbury was a stormy political power in 20th century Ashland Kentucky. He was twice elected as mayor though on many political actions he did not court public approval and...

34. James S. Economou (1951)

American Physician

James S. Economou is an American physician-scientist and university officer. He is currently the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California Los Angeles where he is also a...

35. Paul Auerbach (1951)

American Physician

Paul Stuart Auerbach is an American physician who is a leading voice in the area of wilderness medicine. He is a founder and past president of the Wilderness Medical Society....

36. Howard Koh (1952)

American Physician

Howard Kyongju Koh is the 14th United States Assistant Secretary for Health for the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services after being nominated by President Barack Obama and...

37. John R. Brinkley (1885)

American Physician

John Romulus Brinkley was a controversial American medical doctor who experimented with xenotransplantation of goat testicles into humans as a means of curing male impotence in clinics across several states...

38. Jerri Nielsen (1952)

American Physician

Dr. Jerri Lin Nielsen was an American physician with extensive ER experience who in 1998 was hired to spend a year at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station as the station's...

39. Jesse Bennett (1769)

American Physician

Dr. Jesse Bennett of Philadelphia Pennsylvania was the first American physician to perform a successful Caesarean section which he performed on his own wife at the birth of their only...

40. Peter Pronovost (1965)

American Physician

Peter J.

41. Scott L. Friedman (1955)

American Physician

Scott L. Friedman is an American scientist professor and physician who works in the field of hepatology. Friedman has conducted pioneering research into the underlying causes of scarring or fibrosis...

42. Brian Druker (1955)

American Physician

Brian J. Druker is a physician-scientist at the Oregon Health & Science University. He is the director of OHSU Knight Cancer Institute JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research and professor of...

43. Gary Hartstein (1955)

American Physician

Dr Gary Hartstein M. D. is Clinical Professor of Anesthesia and Emergency Medicine at University of Liège Hospital Liège Belgium and former FIA Medical Delegate for the Formula One...

44. Joseph Thoder (1956)

American Physician

Joseph John Thoder Jr. is currently the Chairman of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine.

45. Ivan Raimi (Unknow)

American Physician

Ivan M. Raimi is an American screenwriter and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and the older brother of director Sam Raimi and actor Ted Raimi. Raimi works as an emergency physician...

46. Pam Ling (1968)

American Physician

Pam Ling is a Chinese American physician best known as a castmate on The Real World: San Francisco the third season of MTV's long-running reality television show.

47. Tom Frieden (1960)

American Physician

Dr. Thomas R. Frieden is the Director of the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. He served...

48. Segun Toyin Dawodu (1960)

American Physician

Segun Toyin Dawodu is an Associate Professor of Pain Medicine at Albany Medical College. He has been a major contributor to the peer-reviewed articles on eMedicine which merged with Medscape...

49. Isaac J. MacCollum (1889)

American Physician

Dr. Isaac James MacCollum was an American physician and politician from Wyoming in Kent County Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as the 11th Lieutenant...

50. William Kennedy Smith (1960)

American Physician

Kennedy Smith is an American physician whose work focuses on landmines and the rehabilitation of people disabled by them. He is a member of the prominent Kennedy family and is...