Medical Professionals and Quacksalvers
| Name | Country | Years active | Proven victims* | Possible victims | Miscellaneous information |
| Harold Shipman | United Kingdom | 1975–1998 | 218 | 250 | Convicted of 15 murders and responsible for the deaths of 218 patients identified by inquiry but is believed to have killed up to 250 people. He would inject diamorphine into his patients and then falsify the medical records, reporting that his patient had been in poor health. Known as Doctor Death. Hanged himself in prison. |
| Miyuki Ishikawa | Japan | 1940s | 103+ | 169 | Euthanized more than 103 newborn children. As a maternity nurse she killed infants born to parents unwilling to care for them during the prohibition of abortion in Japan. Arrested in 1948 and sentenced to 4 years in prison. |
| Donald Harvey | United States | 1970 to 1987 | 37 | 57–87 | Self-professed Angel of Death. Worked as an orderly in Cincinnati-area hospitals and preyed on his patients. Claims to have killed 87 patients starting at age 18. Active 1970–1987. Serving 28 life sentences in Ohio. |
| Anders Hansson | Sweden | 1978 to 1979 | 27 | Serial killer. Poisoned victims with gevisol and ivisol. Called The Hospital Murders (Sjukhusmorden in Swedish) | |
| Marcel Petiot | France | 1926 to 1944 | 26 | 63 | Active 1926 and from 1942 to 1944. Petiot is suspected of having killed up to 63 in total. Executed in 1946. |
| Arnfinn Nesset | Norway | 1983 and earlier | 22 | 27–138+ | Norwegian nurse and most prolific known serial killer in Scandinavian history, convicted on 18 March 1983 of poisoning at least 22 patients with Curacit; however he initially confessed to 27 murders; after he retracted his confessions and he told he had killed 138 patients. Was released from prison in 2004 after serving 21 years, the maximum punishment possible by Norwegian law. |
| Charles Cullen | United States | 1988 to 2003 | 18–29 | 35–40+ | Nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who murdered at least 29 patients between 1988 and 2003. Cullen has admitted to more murders, which authorities believe are likely, but the murders cannot be verified. |
| Waltraud Wagner | Austria | 1983 to 1989 | 15 | 49–200+ | A nurse who killed elderly patients at Lainz General Hospital in Vienna using lethal injection and other methods including drowning. Together with her accomplices, she confessed to 49 murders but may have been responsible for up to 200. One of the "Lainz Angels of Death". |
| Maxim Petrov | Russia | 2000 to 2002 | 12 | 19 | Doctor who killed his patients in St. Petersburg. Suspected of 19 murders. |
| Petr Zelenka | Czech Republic | 2006 | 7 | 21 | Killed his victims with heparin a lethal injection from May to September 2006. Suspected of killing up to 10 people. |
| Orville Lynn Majors | United States | 1993 to 1995 | 6 | 130 | LPN in Vermillion County Ind., Preyed on elderly patients—thought to have killed many of them with injections of potassium chloride. Serving 360 years in Indiana. |
| Amy Archer-Gilligan | United States | 1910 to 1917 | 5 | 48+ | A nursing home proprietor believed to have poisoned as many as 60 patients from her homes and her second husband. Charged with 5 murders originally, this was lowered to just one following her admission of guilt, and was found guilty of second degree murder. Died in a mental hospital in 1962. |
| Kristen Gilbert | United States | 1990 to 1996 | 5 | 70+ | Targeted patients. Sentenced to life without parole. |
| Irene Leidolf | Austria | 1983 to 1989 | 5 | 49–200 | Murdered elderly patients along with Waltraud Wagner. Convicted of five of the murders perpetrated by the "Lainz Angels of Death". |
| Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine May Wood | United States | 1987 | 5 | 5 | Nurses who killed five elderly women in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
| Aino Nykopp-Koski | Finland | 2004 to 2009 | 5 | 5 | Nurse who killed five elderly patients using sedatives and opiates in Finland. |
| Michael Swango | United States | 1981 to 1997 | 4 | 35–60+ | Murderer and serial killer suspect. |
Read more about this topic: List Of Serial Killers By Number Of Victims
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