List of Veterinarians

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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