List of Physicians - Physicians Famous For Other Activities

Physicians Famous For Other Activities

• Abd-el-latif — traveller
• Anderson Ruffin Abbott
• Jane Addams — social activist
• Georg Agricola — mineralologist
• David Alter — inventor
• Richard N. Ash — Radio show host
• Oswald Avery (1877–1955) — molecular biologist who discovered DNA carried genetic information
• Ali Bacher — cricketer
• Roger Bannister; runner, first sub 4 minute miler
• Josiah Bartlett — American statesman and chief justice of New Hampshire
• T. Romeyn Beck (1791–1855) — American forensic medicine pioneer
• Ramon Betances — surgeon, PR nationalist
• Oscar Biscet — human rights advocate
• Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867–1939) — nutritionist
• Herman Boerhaave — humanist
• Alexander Borodin — composer
• Thomas Bowdler — censor
• Tim Brabants — sprint kayaker, Olympic gold medalist
• Lafayette Bunnell — explorer of Yosemite Valley
• Roberto Canessa — survivor of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes Mountains in 1972.
• Gerolamo Cardano — mathematician
• Alexis Carrell — transplant surgeon, eugenicist, Vichy sympathizer
• Ben Carson — Prominent African American Neurosurgeon
• John Caius (1510–1573) — physician and educator
• Laurel B. Clark (1961–2003) — American Astronaut, killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
• Sextus Empiricus (2nd–3rd century C.E.) — philosopher
• Giovanni Fontana Venetian physician, engineer, and encyclopedist
• Luigi Galvani — physicist
• Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) — philosopher
• William Gilbert (1544–1603) — physicist
• Carl Goresky — physician and scientist
• Syed Ziaur Rahman — physician and medical scientist
• W. G. Grace — cricketer
• John Franklin Gray (1804–1881) was an American educator and the first practitioner of homoeopathy in the United States.
• Nehemiah Grew — botanist
• Samuel Hahnemann — founder of homeopathy
• Armand Hammer — entrepreneur
• Harry Hill — comedian
• Samuel Gridley Howe — abolitionist
• Hermann von Helmholtz — physicist
• Jan Baptist van Helmont (1577–1655) — physiologist
• Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt (1810-1889), President of the Connecticut State Medical Society, director of the Retreat for the Insane
• Mae Jemison (born 1956) — astronaut
• Ken Jeong (born 1969)— actor & comedian
• Stuart Kauffman (born 1939) — biologist
• John Keats poet and author
• John Harvey Kellogg — cereal manufacture
• Charles Krauthammer (born 1950) — columnist and political commentator
• Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909) — based his system of criminology on physiognomy
• John Lovelock (1910–1949) — Olympic athlete
• John McAndrew (born 1927) — All-Ireland Gaelic Footballer
• June McCarroll — inventor of lane markings
• James McHenry (1753–1816) — signer of the United States Constitution
• Archibald Menzies — naturalist
• Franz Mesmer (1734–1815) — proponent of mesmerism and the idea of animal magnetism
• Jonathan Miller — television presenter and stage director
• Paul Möhring (1710–1792) — zoologist, botanist
• Maria Montessori — educator
• Boris V. Morukov — cosmonaut
• Lee "Final Table" Nelson — professional poker player
• Haing S. Ngor — Oscar winning film actor
• Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (1758–1840) — astronomer
• James Parkinson — physician, geologist, political activist
• Christian Hendrik Persoon — South African botanist
• Claude Perrault — architect
• Weston A. Price — traveler, educator
• Pope John XXI — pope
• John Ray — plant taxonomer
• Bradbury Robinson — threw the first legal forward pass in American football history while a medical student at St. Louis University
• Peter Mark Roget — English lexicographer
• Jacques Rogge — sports official
• Doreen Rosenstrauch — artist, athlete, humanist, scientist
• Mowaffak al-Rubaie — human rights advocate, member of the Interim Iraqi Governing Council
• Benjamin Rush — signer of the United States Constitution
• Daniel Rutherford (1749–1819) — chemist
• Félix Savart — physicist
• Albert Schweitzer — humanist
• Michael Servetus (1511–1553) — burnt at the stake by Calvinists for heresy
• Rob Sitch — comedian
• Sócrates (born 1954, Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira) — Brazilian football (soccer) player
• James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) — British missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission
• Norman Earl Thagard — astronaut
• Debi Thomas (born 1967) — Olympic figure skater
• William E. Thornton — astronaut
• Nasiruddin al-Tusi — astronomer
• William Walker — Latin American adventurer
• Andrew Wakefield — conducted studies on disputed link between vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders, which had many serious consequences
• John Clarence Webster — Canadian historian
• Wilhelm Weinberg — with G.H. Hardy, developed the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium model of population genetics
• JPR Williams — rugby union player
• Hugh Williamson — American patriot, statesman, Surgeon General of SC
• Thomas Young — scientist
• Ayman al-Zawahiri — Al-Qaeda leader