Physicians and Surgeons
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Jafar al-Sadiq
- Shapur ibn Sahl (d. 869), pioneer of pharmacy and pharmacopoeia
- Al-Kindi (Alkindus) (801-873), pioneer of pharmacology
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman) (810-887)
- Al-Jahiz, pioneer of natural selection
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, pioneer of medical encyclopedia
- Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi
- Ishaq bin Ali al-Rahwi (854–931), pioneer of peer review and medical peer review
- Al-Farabi (Alpharabius)
- Ibn Al-Jazzar (circa 898-980)
- Abul Hasan al-Tabari - physician
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - physician
- Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi (d. 994), pioneer of obstetrics and perinatology
- Abu Gaafar Amed ibn Ibrahim ibn abi Halid al-Gazzar (10th century), pioneer of dental restoration
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) - father of modern surgery, and pioneer of neurosurgery, craniotomy, hematology and dental surgery
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), pioneer of eye surgery, visual system and visual perception
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980-1037) - father of modern medicine, founder of Unani medicine, pioneer of experimental medicine, evidence-based medicine, pharmaceutical sciences, clinical pharmacology, aromatherapy, pulsology and sphygmology, and also a philosopher
- Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, physician of Unani medicine
- Ibn Miskawayh
- Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) - father of experimental surgery, and pioneer of experimental anatomy, experimental physiology, human dissection, autopsy and tracheotomy
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
- Ibn Tufail (Abubacer)
- Averroes
- Ibn al-Baitar
- Ibn Jazla
- Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Ibn al-Nafis (1213–1288), father of circulatory physiology, pioneer of circulatory anatomy, and founder of Nafisian anatomy, physiology, pulsology and sphygmology
- Ibn al-Quff (1233–1305), pioneer of embryology
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī
- Ibn al-Khatib (1313–1374)
- Mansur ibn Ilyas
- Saghir Akhtar - pharmacist
- Syed Ziaur Rahman, pharmacologist
- Toffy Musivand
- Muhammad B. Yunus, the "father of our modern view of fibromyalgia"
- Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, pioneer of biomedical research in space
- Hulusi Behçet, known for the discovery of Behçet's disease
- Gazi Yaşargil, the founder of microneurosurgery
- Ibrahim B. Syed - radiologist
- Mehmet Öz, cardiothoracic surgeon
- Abdul Qayyum Rana, Neurologist known for his work on Parkinson's disease
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“The sick are parasites on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To continue vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations once the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to occasion a deep contempt within society.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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