Veterinarians and veterinary surgeons (vets) are medical professionals who operate exclusively on animals. Well-known and notable veterinarians include:
- Wayne Allard, a U.S. Senator who started as a vet
- Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang, a well-known 19th-century researcher
- Baxter Black, a radio commentator who started as a vet
- Claude Bourgelat, founder of 18th-century French vet school
- Louis J. Camuti, first American cat veterinarian
- Robert Cook, modern expert on horse ailments
- Robert Royston Amos Coombs, 20th-century researcher
- Harry Cooper, Australian television personality
- Peter C. Doherty, 20th-century Australian researcher
- Mick Doyle, former Irish rugby player
- John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor of the tire (tyre)
- John Ensign, U.S. Senator who started as a vet
- Martin J. Fettman, astronaut
- Kevin Fitzgerald, Emergency Vet television documentary vet
- Doug Galt, Canadian politician who started as a vet
- Camille Guérin
- Annie Harvilicz, an innovator and animal rights advocate
- Herbert Haupt
- James Alfred Wight, better known under his pen name of James Herriot (1916–1995)
- Dawda Jawara, first president of Gambia
- Antonín Klobouk, (1885–1956), Czech professor of bovine medicine, discovered Talfan disease in pigs, designed vaccine against foot and mouth disease
- Buster Lloyd-Jones, a famous British Veterinary Surgeon (1914–1980)
- Barry Larkin, better known as a hoaxer during the 1956 Summer Olympics.
- Richard M. Linnehan
- Zoltán Magyar, Hungarian gymnast. Gold medalist in men's pommel horse at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics.
- Suzanne Morrow (1930–2006), Canadian figure skater and taker of the Official's Oath at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary
- Rich Nye, former professional baseball pitcher and exotic animal/Avian veterinarian.
- Peter Ostrum
- Frederick Douglass Patterson
- Sonny Perdue, prior Governor of Georgia
- Arnold Plotnick, Owner of Manhattan Cat Specialists, board certified internal medicine feline specialist, published over 100 veterinary medicine articles and has won numerous awards for his expertise.
- Nicky Rackard (1922–1976)
- Robert L. Rooks, veterinary surgeon
- Dinah Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury, a veterinary surgeon
- Elmo Shropshire, best known as the singer of the novelty Christmas song, Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
- Danielle Spencer
- Harry Spira
- Leonid Stadnik
- Jack Stephens, the vet who founded pet insurance in the US in the early 1980s
- Simon Fraser Tolmie (1867–1937)
- Debbye Turner, Miss America 1990, resident veterinarian for CBS 'The Early Show'
- Hugh Wirth, Australian animal welfare advocate with RSPCA Australia, radio broadcaster
- Robert Zammit
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