List of Physicians - Physicians Famous As Writers

Physicians Famous As Writers

Among the better known writers:

• Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) - Russian novelist and playwright
• Graham Chapman (1941-1989) Writer and actor, founding member of Monty Python
• Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) - Russian playwright
• Robin Cook - American author of bestselling novels, wrote Coma
• Michael Crichton (1942–2008) - American author of Jurassic Park
• A. J. Cronin (1896–1981) - Scottish novelist and essayist, author of The Citadel
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) - British author of Sherlock Holmes fame
• Anthony Daniels (1949– ) - As 'Theodore Dalrymple' and under his own name, a British author, critic and social and cultural commentator
• Khaled Hosseini (1965-) - American author, originally from Afghanistan, of hugely popular bestselling novels The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
• John Keats (1795–1821) - English poet
• Morio Kita - Japanese novelist and essayist, son of Mokichi Saitō
• W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) - British novelist and short story writer, wrote Of Human Bondage
• Mori Ōgai - Japanese novelist, poet, and literary critic
• Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) - French playwright, discovered sign of syphilitic aortitis
• Walker Percy (1916–1990)- American philosopher and writer
• François Rabelais (1483–1553) - French author of Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Mokichi Saitō - Japanese poet
• Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805), German writer, poet, essayist and dramatist
• William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) - American poet and essayist

And others:

• Jafri Malin Abdullah - pioneer in Malaysian postgraduate training in neurosurgery and neurosciences
• John Arbuthnot - author
• Patrick Abercromby (1656 – c. 1716) - historian
• Chris Adrian author
• Jacob Appel - short story writer
• Janet Asimov - (born 1926) (née Janet O. Jeppson). American psychiatrist, wife of Isaac Asimov.
• Arnie Baker - cycling coach
• Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) - British writer
• Georg Büchner - German dramatist
• Ludwig Büchner - German philosopher
• Thomas Campion - poet, composer
• Ethan Canin - novelist, short story writer
• Deepak Chopra - Indian/American writer of self-help and health books
• Alex Comfort (1920–2000) - British writer and poet, author of The Joy of Sex.
• Ctesias (5th century B.C.) - Greek historian
• Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802). British poet, grandfather of Charles Darwin
• Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) - French writer, dramatist, poet and humanist
• Havelock Ellis (1859–1940) - British writer and poet, author of The Psychology of Sex
• Victor Frankl (1905–1997) - Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, author of Man's Search for Meaning
• Samuel Garth (1661–1719) - British author and translator of classics
• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman - Indian author and translator of classical manuscripts
• William Gilbert - British author and father of W. S. Gilbert
• Oliver Goldsmith - British author
• Atul Gawande, surgeon and New Yorker medical writer.
• Richard Hooker author of M*A*S*H
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894) - American essayist
• Arthur Johnston (1587–1641) - poet
• Dimitris P. Kraniotis - Greek poet
• Charles Krauthammer (1950- ) - American psychiatrist, syndicated political columnist
• R. D. Laing - Scottish writer and poet, leader of the anti-psychiatry movement.
• Stanisław Lem (1929–2006) - Polish author of science-fiction (Solaris)
• Carlo Levi (1902–1975) - Italian novelist and writer
• David Livingstone (1813–1873) - Scottish medical missionary, explorer of Africa, travel writer
• Adeline Yen Mah - Chinese-American author.
• Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793) - French writer, a leader of French Revolution, assassinated in bathtub
• Paolo Mantegazza (1831–1910) - Italian writer, wrote a science fiction book, L'Anno 3000
• Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) - American writer
• Mungo Park
• João Guimarães Rosa - Brazilian writer
• Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932) - British writer and poet, discovered the malarial parasite
• Theodore Isaac Rubin (born 1923). American author of David and Lisa
• Oliver Sacks (born 1933). British essayist (e.g. The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat)
• Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) - German charitative worker, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1952), theologian, philosopher, organist, musicologist
• Abdul Qayyum Rana (born 1968) - Canadian Neurologist, wrote several books on Parkinson's disease and Neurology. Author of 50 ways Parkinson's could affect you
• Frank Slaughter (1908–2001) American bestseller author, wrote (Doctor's Wives)
• Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) - author
• Benjamin Spock (1903–1988) - American pediatrician, wrote Baby and Child Care.
• Osamu Tezuka - Japanese Cartoonist and Animator. Considered the "father of anime".
• Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) - American essayist and poet
• Sir Henry Thompson, British surgeon and polymath.
• Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942) - Czech writer, screenwriter and film director
• Francis Brett Young (1884–1954) - English novelist and poet
• José Rizal (1861–1896) - Filipino novelist, scientist, linguist, and National Hero