Medical
- Bagshaw, Elizabeth (1881–1982) – physician and birth control activist
- Sir, Major Banting, Frederick (1891–1941) – Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discoverers of insulin
- Bell, John (born 1953) – pioneer of oncolytic virus therapies for cancer
- Bethune, Norman (1890–1939) – surgeon, inventor, socialist, battlefield doctor in Spain and China
- Bigelow, Wilfred (1913–2005) – inventor of the first artificial pacemaker
- Callaghan, John (1923–2004) – pioneer of open-heart surgery
- Dick, John (born 1957) – credited with discovery of cancer stem cell
- Douglas, Tommy (1904–1986) – introduced publicly-funded health care in Canada; commonly known as the Father of Medicare
- Goresky, Carl A. (1932–1996) – physician and scientist
- Hubel, David (born 1926) – Nobel Prize winner in medicine for mapping the visual cortex
- Johns, Harold E. (1915–1998) – medical physicist, noted for his extensive contributions to the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer
- Kimura, Doreen (unknown) – behavioural psychologist, world expert on sex differences in the brain
- Mance, Jeanne (1606–1673) – established the first hospital in North America – the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal – in 1644
- McCulloch, Ernest (born c. 1925) – cellular biologist credited with the discovery of stem cell with James Till
- Morgentaler, Henry (born 1923) – abortionist who helped legalize abortion in Canada and strengthen the power of jury nullification
- Osler, Sir William (1849–1919) – physician, called "father of modern medicine"; wrote Principles and Practice of Medicine
- Palmer, Daniel David (1845–1913) – founded the chiropractic profession
- Parker, Edgar Randolph (1871–1951) – (known as "Painless" Parker) flamboyant dentist
- Penfield, Wilder (1891–1976) – neurosurgeon, discovered electrical stimulation of the brain
- Sackett, David (born 1934) – founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University
- Till, James (born 1931) – biophysicist, credited for the discovery of stem cell with Ernest McCulloch
- Tilley, A. Ross (1904–1988) plastic surgeon
- Uchida, Irene Ayako (born 1917) – cytogenticist, Down Syndrome researcher
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Famous quotes containing the word medical:
“The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic—in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea—known to medical science is work.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)
“Mark Twain didn’t psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn’t put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.”
—Samuel Fuller (b. 1911)
“As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)