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
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