Medicine
- Benjamin Carson (2008)
- Dr. Denton Cooley (March 26, 1984)
- Michael DeBakey (1969)
- Lena Frances Edwards (1964)
- John F. Enders (1963)
- Anthony Fauci (2008)
- William Foege (2012)
- Pedro José Greer, Jr. (2009)
- David Hamburg (1996)
- Donald Henderson (2002)
- Surgeon General C. Everett Koop (1995)
- Tom Little (2011, Posthumous)
- Charles LeRoy Lowman (1974)
- Karl Menninger (1981)
- Arnall Patz (2004)
- Janet Davison Rowley (2009)
- Albert Sabin (1986)
- Jonas Salk (1977)
- Helen B. Taussig (1964)
- William B. Walsh (1987)
- Paul Dudley White (1964)
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“No medicine in the world can do thee good;
In thee there is not half an hour’s life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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