Physicians Famous As Criminals
- Dr John Bodkin Adams - British general practitioner, and suspected serial killer, thought to have killed over 160 patients. Acquitted of one murder in 1957 but convicted of prescription fraud, not keeping a dangerous drug register, obstructing a police search and lying on cremation forms.
- Karl Brandt (1904–1948) - Nazi human experimentation
- Dr Edme Castaing - murderer
- George Chapman - Polish poisoner and Jack the Ripper suspect
- Dr Robert George Clements - murderer
- Dr Nigel Cox - only British doctor to be convicted of attempted euthanasia
- Dr Thomas Neill Cream - murderer
- Baruch Goldstein (1956–1994) - assassin
- Linda Hazzard - convicted of murdering one patient but suspected of 12 in total
- Dr H.H. Holmes - American serial killer
- Shirō Ishii - headed Japan's Unit 731 during World War II which conducted human experimentation for weapons and medical research
- Radovan Karadžić (born 1945) - accused of ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia
- Jack Kevorkian (1923-2011) - convicted of second-degree murder, Michigan, April 13, 1999
- Dr Jeffrey MacDonald -murdered pregnant wife and two daughters in 1979
- Josef Mengele (1911–1979) - known as the Angel of Death, Nazi human experimentation
- Samuel Mudd (1833–1883) - condemned to prison for setting the leg of Abraham Lincoln's assassin
- Herman Webster Mudgett (1860–1896) - American serial killer
- Arnfinn Nesset - Norwegian serial killer
- Dr William Palmer - British poisoner
- Dr Marcel Petiot - French serial killer
- Herta Oberheuser (1911–1978) - Nazi human experimentation
- Richard J. Schmidt - American physician who contaminated his girlfriend with AIDS-tainted blood
- Harold Shipman (1946–2004) - British serial killer
- Michael Swango (born 1953) - American serial killer
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