List of pathologists
A list of people notable in the field of pathology.
A
- John Abercrombie, Scottish physician, neuropathologist and philosopher.
- Maude Abbott, Canadian pathologist, one of the earliest women graduated in Medicine, expert in congenital heart diseases.
- Emile Achard, French internist and pathologist.
- A. Bernard Ackerman, American dermatopathologist & dermatologist
- Lauren Ackerman, American pathologist and one of the fathers of Surgical pathology.
- Theodor Ackermann, German pathologist.
- Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz, Polish pathologist,.
- W. Stewart Alexander, contemporary British pathologist.
- Dame Ingrid Allen, Northern Irish neuropathologist.
- Friedrich August von Ammon, German ophthalmologist and pathologist.
- Gabriel Andral French pathologist.
- Nikolay Anichkov, Russian pathologist.
- Julius Arnold, German pathologist.
- Ludwig Aschoff, German pathologist, discoverer of the Aschoff body and the Atrioventricular node in the heart.
- Max Askanazy, German pathologist.
- E. Ask-Upmark, 20th-century Swedish pathologist.
B
- Heinrich von Bamberger, Austrian pathologist from Prague.
- Paul Clemens von Baumgarten, German pathologist.
- John Bruce Beckwith, American pathologist.
- Franz Best, German pathologist.
- Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist, remembered as father of modern histology and pathology.
- Max Bielschowsky, German neuropathologist & developer of histochemical stains.
- Edmund Biernacki, Polish pathologist .
- Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld, German pathologist.
- Giulio Bizzozero, Italian doctor and medical researcher.
- Otto Bollinger, German pathologist.
- Charles-Joseph Bouchard, French pathologist.
- William Boyd, Scottish-Canadian physician, pathologist, academic and author of several 20th-century textbooks on general and surgical pathology.
- Erich Franz Eugen Bracht, German pathologist and gynaecologist.
- Fritz Brenner, German pathologist.
- Alexander Breslow, American pathologist.
- Richard Bright, British internist and pathologist.
- Ludwig von Buhl, German pathologist.
C
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1906
- Francis Camps, English forensic pathologist.
- Myrtelle Canavan, American physician, medical researcher, one of the first female pathologists.
- Karl Friedrich Canstatt, German physician, pathologist and medical author.
- Marie Cassidy, Irish forensic pathologist.
- Benjamin Castleman, American surgical pathologist and eponymist of Castleman's disease.
- Hans Chiari, Austrian pathologist.
- Jacob Churg, Russian-born American pathologist.
- Giuseppe Vincenzo Ciaccio, Italian anatomist and histologist.
- Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, German pathologist.
- Albert Coons, American physician, immunologist, & immunopathologist.
- Astley Cooper, English surgeon, anatomist & pathologist.
- Victor André Cornil, French pathologist and histologist.
- Dominic Corrigan, Irish physician & pathologist.
- Ramzi Cotran, American pathologist
- William Thomas Councilman, American pathologist.
- Jean Cruveilhier, French anatomist and pathologist.
D
- David C. Dahlin American surgical & orthopedic pathologist.
- Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance French pathologist.
- Ferdinand-Jean Darier, French pathologist and dermatologist.
- James R. Dawson, American pathologist.
- Francis Delafield, American physician & pathologist.
- Franz Dittrich, Austrian-Bohemian-German pathologist.
- Robin Dodge, English pathologist at The Christie Centre, Manchester.
- Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle, German pathologist & histologist.
- William L. Donohue, Canadian pathologist.
- Georges Dreyer, Danish pathologist, professor of pathology at Oxford University.
- I. N. Dubin, American pathologist.
- Cuthbert Dukes, English physician and pathologist for whom the Dukes classification for colorectal cancer is named.
- Guillaume Dupuytren, French military surgeon & surgical pathologist.
E
- Karl Joseph Eberth, German pathologist and bacteriologist.
- William E. Ehrich, German-American pathologist, professor of Pathology at Philadelphia General Hospital and the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Paul Ehrlich, German physician, researcher and pathologist, Nobel laureate, one of the founders of immunology & laboratory medicine.
- Jakob Erdheim, Austrian pathologist.
- James Ewing, American surgical pathologist, first professor of Pathology at Cornell University, eponymist of Ewing's sarcoma, one of the founders of AACR.
F
- Robert Sanno Fåhræus, Swedish pathologist.
- Sidney Farber, American pediatric pathologist, regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy, and after whom the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is named.
- Martin J. Fettman, American veterinarian, veterinary pathologist, and astronaut
- Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish physician & pathologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1926.
- Paul Flechsig, German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist.
- Christopher D. M. Fletcher, Anglo-American pathologist
- Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, German pathologist.
- Nikolaus Friedreich, German pathologist and neurologist.
- August von Froriep, German anatomist.
- Robert Froriep, German anatomist and medical publisher.
G
- Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt, German pathologist
- Joseph von Gerlach, German professor of anatomy, pioneer of histological staining and micrography
- Gustav Giemsa, German physician, pathologist, & histochemist
- Anthony Gill , Australian pathologist and medical researcher
- Camillo Golgi, Italian neuropathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1906
- Ernest Goodpasture, American pathologist, eponymist of Goodpasture's syndrome
- Austin Gresham, English forensic pathologist
H
- Hakaru Hashimoto, Japanese medical scientist.
- Ludvig Hektoen, American researcher on pathology of infectious diseases.
- Arnold Ludwig Gotthilf Heller, German anatomist and pathologist.
- Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist and anatomist.
- Richard L. Heschl, Austrian anatomist & pathologist.
- Thomas Hodgkin, English physician & pathologist; eponymist of Hodgkin's disease.
- Friedrich Albin Hoffmann, German internist and pathologist.
- Jason Hornick, American pathologist and researcher
- Karl Hürthle, German physiologist and histologist.
- Helen Hart, American plant pathologist
J
- Elaine Jaffe, American pathologist, expert in research, diagnostics and classification of lymphomas, particularly follicular lymphoma.
K
- Fujiro Katsurada, Japanese pathologist.
- Eduard Kaufmann, German pathologist.
- Ahmet Cemil Kaur, Turkish pathologist.
- Ernest Kennaway, English clinical chemist and researcher on carcinogenesis.
- Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, controversial advocate of euthanasia.
- Sukamal Khasnabis, Indian, Bengali pathologist.
- Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist.
- Julius von Kossa 19th-century Austro-Hungarian pathologist.
- Leiv Kreyberg, Norwegian war hero, humanitarian and pathologist known for typology of lung cancer.
- Hans Kundrat, Austrian pathologist.
L
- Paul Eston Lacy, former chairperson of pathology at Washington University and diabetes researcher.
- Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, physiologist and biologist.
- William Boog Leishman, English authority on the pathology of human parasitic diseases
- George Lignac, Dutch pathologist-anatomist.
- Henrique da Rocha Lima, Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist
- James Linder, American cytopathologist and technological developer
- Leo Loeb, American pathologist and early cancer researcher.
M
- Frank Burr Mallory, American surgical pathologist & histochemist
- Rod Markin American pioneer in laboratory automation.
- Alexander A. Maximow, Russian-American scientist, histologist and embryologist.
- John McCrae, Canadian pathologist, physician, soldier and poet, author of .
- Frances Gertrude McGill, pioneering Canadian pathologist and criminologist
- Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian pathologist, considered the father of modern Anatomical Pathology
N
- Heijiro Nakayama, Japanese pathologist.
- Bernhard Naunyn, German pathologist.
- Franz Ernst Christian Neumann, German pathologist.
- Thomas Noguchi, Japanese American forensic pathologist & medical examiner.
O
- Shuji Ogino, Japanese pathologist, epidemiologist, Harvard University professor, and pioneer in molecular pathological epidemiology.
- Eugene Lindsay Opie, American pathologist and researcher on tuberculosis.
- Johannes Orth, German pathologist.
- William Osler, Canadian physician and pathologist, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
P
- Richard Paltauf, Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
- George Nicolas Papanicolaou, Greek-American cytopathologist & developer of the Papanicolaou cervical smear
- Artur Pappenheim, German physician, developer of histochemical stains.
- Lukáš Plank, Slovak pathologist specializing in oncopathology and hematopathology.
- Emil Ponfick, German pathologist.
R
- Louis-Antoine Ranvier, French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer of nodes of Ranvier.
- Ronald Rapini, US dermatopathologist. discoverer of sclerotic fibroma.
- Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, German pathologist.
- Benno Reinhardt, German physician, specialized in the field of pathological anatomy.
- Donald Rix, founder of a Canadian commercial pathology laboratory
- Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian autopsy pathologist
- Juan Rosai, Italian-American surgical pathologist, discoverer of Rosai-Dorfman disease and the desmoplastic small round cell tumor.
- Gustave Roussy, Swiss-French neuropathologist.
S
- Christian Georg Schmorl, German pathologist.
- Richard Scolyer, Australian pathologist
- Johann Lukas Schönlein, German naturalist, and pathologist.
- Charles Scott Sherrington, English neuropathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1932
- Richard Shope, American virologist and pathologist.
- Keith Simpson, English forensic pathologist.
- Lee J. Slavutin, Australian pathologist.
- Maud Slye, American experimental pathologist.
- Theobald Smith, American pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist.
- Kim Solez, American pathologist, father of the Banff Classification of Transplantation Pathology.
- Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British pathologist.
- Sophie Spitz, American surgical pathologist, eponymist of Spitz nevus
- Edward Stafne, American oral pathologist.
- Allen Starry, American pathologist.
- Javier Arias Stella, Peruvian pathologist, describer of the Arias Stella reaction in the endometrium.
- Stephen Sternberg, American pathologist, founding Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Surgical Pathology and editor of several 20th-century pathology textbooks.
- Arthur Purdy Stout. American surgeon and pathologist, & one of the fathers of modern Surgical pathology.
- Lotte Strauss, American pathologist.
T
- Sunao Tawara, Japanese pathologist, discoverer of the Atrioventricular node.
- Donald Teare, British pathologist.
- Jacques-René Tenon, French surgeon and pathologist.
- Ludwig Traube, German physician, co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany.
- Václav Treitz, Czech pathologist.
- Charles Emile Troisier, French doctor.
U
- Johann Paul Uhle, German physician and pathologist.
- Paul Gerson Unna, one of the founders of dermatopathology.
V
- José Verocay, Czechoslovakian pathologist.
- Rudolf Virchow, German physician, politician, & the father of "cellular" pathology.
- Adolf Vossius, German pathologist.
W
- Erik Waaler, Norwegian professor of medicine.
- Hermann Julius Gustav Wächter, German physician, German pathologist.
- Heinrich von Waldeyer-Hartz, German anatomist.
- Robin Warren, Australian gastrointestinal pathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2005.
- Aldred Scott Warthin, American pathologist.
- David Weatherall, British physician and researcher
- Friedrich Wegener, German pathologist.
- Anton Weichselbaum, Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
- Carl Weigert, developer of histochemical stains.
- Adolf Weil, German physician and pathologist.
- Ronald S. Weinstein, American pathologist, inventor, educator.
- Sharon Weiss, American surgical pathologist, expert on soft tissue pathology.
- William Henry Welch, American physician, pathologist, bacteriologist, medical school administrator, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
- Max Westenhöfer,, German pathologist, disciple of Rudolf Virchow, author of the aquatic ape hypothesis and influential on the development of pathology and social medicine in Chile.
- George Whipple, American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1934.
- James Homer Wright, surgical pathologist and developer of histochemical stains.
Y
- Yamagiwa Katsusaburō Japanese pathologist, developed the concept of chemical carcinogenesis.
Z
- Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn, German pathologist.
- Friedrich Albert von Zenker, German pathologist and physician.
- Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen, German pathologist and physician.