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A physician is a person who practices some type of human biological medicine.

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x Alexis Carrel Alexis Carrel Person Organ transplant
Alexis Carrel (June 28, 1873 - November 5, 1944) was a French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912. Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon , Lyon, Carrel practiced in France and in the United...
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x Avicenna Person  
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā', known as Abu Ali Sina (Persian: ابوعلی سینا) or Ibn Sina (Persian/Arabic: ابن سینا‎) and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna (Greek Aβιτζιανός), (born c. 980 near Bukhara,...
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x Ibn al-Haitham Ibn haithem portrait Person  
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Arabic: ابو علی، حسن بن حسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo), was an Arab or Persian polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles...
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x Anton Chekhov Person  
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (January 29 [O.S. January 17] 1860 – July 15 [O.S. July 2] 1904) (Russian: Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов, Russian pronunciation: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf]) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered...
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x Herman Boerhaave Herman Boerhaave Person  
Herman Boerhaave (Voorhout, December 31, 1668 - Leiden, September 23, 1738) was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital. His main achievement...
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x Carolus Linnaeus Carl von Linné Person  
Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné  (help·info), May 23 [O.S. May 13] 1707 – January 10, 1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern...
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x Charles Tupper Charles Tupper Person  
Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet, GCMG, CB, PC (July 2, 1821 – October 30, 1915) was a Canadian father of Confederation: as the Premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867, he led Nova Scotia into Confederation. He later went on to serve as the sixth...
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x Christiaan Barnard Christiaan Barnard Person  
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (November 8, 1922 – September 2, 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon, famous for performing the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant. Barnard grew up under humble circumstances in Beaufort West,...
Surgeon
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x David Hayes Agnew The Agnew Clinic, 1889. A painting by Thomas Eakins that depicts Agnew overseeing a mastectomy. Person  
David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818 - March 22, 1892) was an American surgeon, born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1838, and a few years later set up in practice at...
Surgeon
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x Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Eganderson Person  
Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (June 9, 1836 – December 17, 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain. Garrett was the daughter of Newson Garrett, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where...
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x George Whipple whipple.jpg Person  
George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976) was an American physician, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and...
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x Galen Greek physician Galen wrote about the plague Person  
Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Galēnos; Latin: Claudius Galenus, Aelius Galenus, Claudius Aelius Galenus, or Aelius Claudius Galenus), 129-200 CE, of Pergamon (Pergamum) was a prominent Roman physician and philosopher of Greek origin , and probably the most...
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x Gro Harlem Brundtland Gro Harlem Brundtland Person  
Gro Harlem Brundtland (help·info) (pronounced [ɡru: hɑ:ɭɛm brʉntlɑn:]) (born Gro Harlem, 20 April, 1939) is a Norwegian politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She is a former...
Politician
x Hippocrates Person  
Hippocrates of Cos II or Hippokrates of Kos (ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC) - Greek: Ἱπποκράτης; Hippokrátēs was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, and was considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is...
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x Hans Selye   Person  
Hans Hugo Bruno Selye (Hungarian: Selye János) CC (January 26, 1907 — October 16, 1982) was a Canadian endocrinologist of Austro-Hungarian origin and Hungarian ethnicity. Selye did much important factual work on the hypothetical non-specific...
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x Robert Koch Person  
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the vibrio cholera (1883) and for his development of Koch's...
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x Imhotep Statuette of Imhotep in the Louvre Person  
Imhotep (sometimes spelled Immutef, Im-hotep, or Ii-em-Hotep; called Imuthes by the Greeks), circa (fl. 27th century BC (1/4/2650-12/4/2600) Egyptian ii-m-ḥtp *jā-im-ḥatāp meaning "the one who comes in, with peace") was an Egyptian polymath, who...
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x John Abercrombie   Person  
John Abercrombie (October 10, 1780 in Aberdeen – November 14, 1844 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish physician and philosopher. The son of the Reverend George Abercrombie of Aberdeen, he was educated at the Grammar School and Marischal College,...
x John Abernethy John Abernethy (1764–1831) Person  
John Abernethy FRS (3 April 1764 - 20 April 1831) was an English surgeon, grandson of the Reverend John Abernethy. He was born in London, where his father was a merchant. Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he was apprenticed in 1779 to Sir...
Surgeon
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x Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister Joseph Lister Person  
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, FRS (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) was an English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He successfully introduced carbolic acid (phenol) to sterilize...
Surgeon
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x Louis Pasteur Person  
Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of disease. His experiments supported the germ theory of disease, also reducing...
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x Maimonides Maimonides-2 Person  
Moses Maimonides (March 30, 1135 – December 13, 1204) also known as Moshe ben Maimon (Hebrew: משה בן מימון‎), the Rambam and Musa ibn Maymun (Arabic: موسي ابن ميمون‎), was a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Spain, Morocco and Egypt during the...
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x Prospero Alpini Prospero Alpini Person  
Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Prosper Alpin) (November 23, 1553 - February 6, 1617), was an Italian physician and botanist. Born at Marostica, in the republic of Venice, in his youth he served for a time in the...
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x Sushruta   Surgeon  
Sushruta was a surgeon and teacher of Ayurveda who flourished in the Indian city of Kashi by the 6th century BCE. The medical treatise Sushruta Samhita—compiled in Vedic Sanskrit—is attributed to him. The Sushruta Samhita contains multiple detailed...
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x William Jardine William Jardine in his study Person  
Dr. William Jardine (b. February 24, 1784-d. February 27, 1843) was a ship surgeon who went into the opium smuggling business in China, where he became a powerful merchant and was instrumental in starting the First Opium War. Jardine was born in...
Surgeon
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x Karl Brandt Karl Brandt at the Doctors' Trial Person  
Karl Brandt (January 8, 1904 – June 2, 1948) was selected the personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939. As Major General Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation he...
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x Eudoxus of Cnidus   Person  
Eudoxus of Cnidus (Greek Εὔδοξος ὁ Κνίδιος) (410 or 408 BC – 355 or 347 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar and student of Plato. Since all his own works are lost, our knowledge of him is obtained from secondary sources, such as...
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x Che Guevara Alberto Korda's photograph of Che Guevara Person  
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. After his death, his...
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x Gerhard Armauer Hansen Gerhard Armauer Hansen Person  
Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (29 July 1841 – 12 February 1912) was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy. Hansen was born in Bergen and studied...
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x Anton de Bary Anton de Bary Person  
Heinrich Anton de Bary (January 26, 1831 – January 19, 1888) was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist (fungal systematics and physiology). He is considered a founding father of plant pathology (phytopathology) as well as the...
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x Emil Adolf von Behring Emil Adolf von Behring, Entdecker der Antitoxine und damit der humoralen Immunabwehr Person Infectious disease
Emil Adolf von Behring (March 15, 1854 – March 31, 1917) was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Behring was born Adolf Emil Behring in Hansdorf, Kreis Rosenberg, Province of Prussia. Between 1874 and...
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x Benjamin Spock Dr. Spock with his grand-daughter Susannah in 1967