A list of people notable in the field of pathology.

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A

  • John Abercrombie, Scottish physician, neuropathologist and philosopher.
  • Maude Abbott (1869–1940), Canadian pathologist, one of the earliest women graduated in medicine, expert in congenital heart diseases.
  • Emile Achard (1860–1944), French internist and pathologist.
  • A. Bernard Ackerman (1936–2008), American dermatopathologist & dermatologist
  • Lauren Ackerman (1905–1993), American pathologist and one of the fathers of Surgical pathology.
  • Theodor Ackermann (1825–1896), German pathologist.
  • Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz (1850–1921), Polish pathologist, (see Artery of Adamkiewicz).
  • W. Stewart Alexander, contemporary British pathologist (see Alexander disease).
  • Dame Ingrid Allen, Northern Irish neuropathologist.
  • Friedrich August von Ammon (1799–1861), German ophthalmologist and pathologist.
  • Gabriel Andral (1797–1876) French pathologist.
  • Peter Angritt (1938-2024), U.S. Army colonel and clinical pathologist
  • Nikolay Anichkov (1885–1964), Russian pathologist.
  • Julius Arnold (1835–1915), German pathologist.
  • Ludwig Aschoff (1866–1942), German pathologist, discoverer of the Aschoff body and the Atrioventricular node in the heart.
  • Max Askanazy (1865–1940), German pathologist (see Askanazy cell).
  • E. Ask-Upmark, 20th-century Swedish pathologist (see Ask-Upmark kidney).

B

  • Matthew Baillie (17611823), British physician and pathologist, credited with first identifying transposition of the great vessels and situs inversus.
  • Heinrich von Bamberger (1822–1888), Austrian pathologist from Prague.
  • Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1848–1928), German pathologist.
  • John Bruce Beckwith (1933–2025), American pathologist (see Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome).
  • Antonio di Paolo Benivieni (14431502), Florentine physician who pioneered the use of the autopsy and many medical historians have considered him a founder of pathology.
  • Franz Best (1878–1920), German pathologist (see Best's disease).
  • Xavier Bichat (1771–1802), French anatomist and physiologist, remembered as father of modern histology and pathology.
  • Max Bielschowsky (1869–1940), German neuropathologist & developer of histochemical stains.
  • Edmund Biernacki (1866–1912), Polish pathologist (see Biernacki Reaction).
  • Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld (1842–1899), German pathologist.
  • Giulio Bizzozero (1846–1901), Italian doctor and medical researcher.
  • Otto Bollinger (1843–1909), German pathologist.
  • Charles-Joseph Bouchard (1837–1915), French pathologist.
  • William Boyd (1885–1979), Scottish-Canadian physician, pathologist, academic and author of several 20th-century textbooks on general and surgical pathology.
  • Erich Franz Eugen Bracht (1882–1969), German pathologist and gynaecologist.
  • Fritz Brenner (1877–1969), German pathologist (see Brenner tumor).
  • Alexander Breslow (1928–1980), American pathologist (see Breslow's depth).
  • Richard Bright (1789–1858), British internist and pathologist (see Bright's disease).
  • Ludwig von Buhl (1816–1880), German pathologist.

C

  • Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish pathologist and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1906
  • Francis Camps (1905–1972), English forensic pathologist.
  • Myrtelle Canavan (1879–1953), American physician, medical researcher, and one of the first female pathologists (see Canavan disease).
  • Karl Friedrich Canstatt (1807–1850), German physician, pathologist, and medical author.
  • Marie Cassidy (born 1959), Irish forensic pathologist.
  • Benjamin Castleman (1906–1982), American surgical pathologist and eponymist of Castleman's disease.
  • Jamie Chapman (1970–present), Australian ground-breaking histologist.
  • Hans Chiari (1851–1916), Austrian pathologist (see Arnold–Chiari malformation, Budd–Chiari syndrome).
  • Jacob Churg (1910–2005), Russian-born American pathologist (see Churg–Strauss syndrome).
  • Giuseppe Vincenzo Ciaccio (1824–1901), Italian anatomist and histologist.
  • Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839–1884), German pathologist known for his research on the mechanism of inflammation and the study of circulation.
  • Albert Coons (1912–1978), American physician, immunologist, & immunopathologist.
  • Astley Cooper (1768–1841), English surgeon, anatomist & pathologist.
  • Victor André Cornil (1837–1908), French pathologist and histologist.
  • Dominic Corrigan (1802–1880), Irish physician & pathologist (see Corrigan's pulse).
  • Ramzi Cotran, American pathologist
  • William Thomas Councilman (1854–1933), American pathologist (see Councilman body).
  • Jean Cruveilhier (1791–1874), French anatomist and pathologist (see Cruveilhier's sign, Cruveilhier–Baumgarten disease).

D

  • David C. Dahlin (1917–2003) American surgical & orthopedic pathologist.
  • Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance (1797–1832) French pathologist.
  • Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856–1938), French pathologist and dermatologist.
  • James R. Dawson (1908–1986), American pathologist (see Dawson encephalitis).
  • Francis Delafield (1841–1915), American physician & pathologist.
  • Franz Dittrich (1815–1859), Austrian-Bohemian-German pathologist.
  • Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle (1855–1928), German pathologist & histologist (see Döhle bodies).
  • William L. Donohue (1906–1985), Canadian pathologist (see Donohue syndrome).
  • Georges Dreyer (1873–1934), Danish pathologist, professor of pathology at Oxford University.
  • I. N. Dubin (born 1913), American pathologist (see Dubin–Johnson syndrome).
  • Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), English physician and pathologist for whom the Dukes classification for colorectal cancer is named.
  • Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), French military surgeon & surgical pathologist.

E

  • Karl Joseph Eberth (1835–1926), German pathologist and bacteriologist.
  • William E. Ehrich (1900–1967), German-American pathologist, professor of pathology at Philadelphia General Hospital and the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German physician, researcher and pathologist, Nobel laureate, one of the founders of immunology & laboratory medicine.
  • Jakob Erdheim (1874–1937), Austrian pathologist (see Erdheim–Chester disease).
  • James Ewing (1866–1943), American surgical pathologist, first professor of pathology at Cornell University, eponymist of Ewing's sarcoma, one of the founders of AACR.

F

  • Robert (Robin) Sanno Fåhræus (1888–1968), Swedish pathologist (see Fåhræus effect and Fåhræus–Lindqvist effect).
  • Sidney Farber (1903–1973), American pediatric pathologist, regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy, and after whom the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute is named.
  • Martin J. Fettman (born 1956), American veterinarian, veterinary pathologist, and astronaut
  • Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1867–1928), Danish physician & pathologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1926.
  • Paul Flechsig (1847–1929), German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist.
  • Christopher D. M. Fletcher, Anglo-American pathologist
  • Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819–1885), German pathologist.
  • Nikolaus Friedreich (1825–1882), German pathologist and neurologist.
  • August von Froriep (1849–1917), German anatomist.
  • Robert Froriep (1804–1861), German anatomist and medical publisher.

G

  • Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt (1833–1902), German pathologist
  • Joseph von Gerlach (1820–1896), German professor of anatomy, pioneer of histological staining and micrography
  • Gustav Giemsa (1867–1948), German physician, pathologist, & histochemist (see Giemsa stain)
  • Anthony Gill (born 1972), Australian pathologist and medical researcher
  • Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian neuropathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1906
  • Ernest Goodpasture (1886–1960), American pathologist, eponymist of Goodpasture's syndrome
  • Austin Gresham (1925–2009), English forensic pathologist

H

  • Hakaru Hashimoto (1881–1934), Japanese medical scientist.
  • Ludvig Hektoen (1863–1951), American researcher on pathology of infectious diseases.
  • Arnold Ludwig Gotthilf Heller (1840–1913), German anatomist and pathologist.
  • Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809–1885), German physician, pathologist and anatomist.
  • Richard L. Heschl (1824–1881), Austrian anatomist & pathologist.
  • Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866), English physician & pathologist; eponymist of Hodgkin's disease.
  • Friedrich Albin Hoffmann (1843–1924), German internist and pathologist.
  • Jason Hornick, American pathologist and researcher
  • Karl Hürthle (1860–1945), German physiologist and histologist.
  • Helen Hart (1900–1971), American plant pathologist

J

  • Elaine Jaffe, American pathologist, expert in research, diagnostics and classification of lymphomas, particularly follicular lymphoma.

K

  • Fujiro Katsurada (1867–1946), Japanese pathologist.
  • Eduard Kaufmann (1860–1931), German pathologist.
  • Ernest Kennaway (1881–1958), English clinical chemist and researcher on carcinogenesis.
  • Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011), American pathologist, controversial advocate of euthanasia.
  • Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (1834–1913), German-Swiss pathologist.
  • Julius von Kossa 19th-century Austro-Hungarian pathologist (see Von Kossa stain).
  • Leiv Kreyberg (1896–1984), Norwegian war hero, humanitarian and pathologist known for typology of lung cancer.
  • Hans Kundrat (1845–1893), Austrian pathologist.
  • Kathleen Coard (born 1952), Grenadian pathologist.

L

  • Paul Eston Lacy (1924–2005), former chairperson of pathology at Washington University and diabetes researcher.
  • Paul Langerhans (1847–1888), German pathologist, physiologist and biologist.
  • William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), English authority on the pathology of human parasitic diseases (see leishmaniasis)
  • George Lignac (1891–1954), Dutch pathologist-anatomist.
  • Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879–1956), Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist
  • James Linder (born 1954), American cytopathologist and technological developer
  • Leo Loeb (1869–1959), American pathologist and early cancer researcher.
  • Esmond Ray Long (1890–1970), American pathologist, epidemiologist, and medical historian.

M

  • Frank Burr Mallory (1862–1941), American surgical pathologist & histochemist (see Mallory bodies)
  • Rod Markin (born 1956) American pioneer in laboratory automation.
  • Alexander A. Maximow (1874–1928), Russian-American scientist, histologist and embryologist.
  • John McCrae (1872–1918), Canadian pathologist, physician, soldier and poet, author of [In Flanders Fields].
  • Frances Gertrude McGill (1882–1959), pioneering Canadian pathologist and criminologist
  • Tracey McNamara, veterinary pathologist at the Bronx Zoo who played a pivotal role in identifying the first outbreak of West Nile Virus in the United States
  • Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), Italian pathologist, considered the father of modern Anatomical Pathology

N

  • Heijiro Nakayama (1871–1956), Japanese pathologist.
  • Bernhard Naunyn (1839–1925), German pathologist.
  • Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (1834–1918), German pathologist.
  • Thomas Noguchi (born 1927), Japanese American forensic pathologist & medical examiner.

O

  • Shuji Ogino (born 1968), Japanese pathologist, epidemiologist, Harvard University professor, and pioneer in molecular pathological epidemiology.
  • Eugene Lindsay Opie (1873–1971), American pathologist and researcher on tuberculosis.
  • Johannes Orth (1847–1923), German pathologist.
  • William Osler (1849–1919), Canadian physician and pathologist, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

P

  • Richard Paltauf (1858–1924), Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
  • George Nicolas Papanicolaou (1883–1962), Greek-American cytopathologist & developer of the Papanicolaou cervical smear (see Pap smear)
  • Artur Pappenheim (1870–1916), German physician, developer of histochemical stains.
  • Lukáš Plank (born 1951), Slovak pathologist specializing in oncopathology and hematopathology.
  • Emil Ponfick (1844–1913), German pathologist.

R

  • Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835–1922), French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer of nodes of Ranvier.
  • Ronald Rapini (born 1948), US dermatopathologist; discoverer of sclerotic fibroma.
  • Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833–1910), German pathologist.
  • Benno Reinhardt (1819–1852), German physician, specialized in pathological anatomy.
  • Donald Rix (1931–2009), founder of a Canadian commercial pathology laboratory.
  • Carl von Rokitansky (1804–1878), Bohemian autopsy pathologist.
  • Juan Rosai (1940–2020), Italian-American surgical pathologist, discoverer of Rosai-Dorfman disease and the desmoplastic small round cell tumor.
  • Gustave Roussy (1874–1948), Swiss-French neuropathologist.

S

  • Christian Georg Schmorl (1861–1932), German pathologist.
  • Richard Scolyer, Australian pathologist
  • Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793–1864), German naturalist, and pathologist.
  • Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), English neuropathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1932
  • Richard Shope (1901–1966), American virologist and pathologist.
  • Keith Simpson (1907–1985), English forensic pathologist.
  • Maud Slye (1879–1954), American experimental pathologist.
  • Theobald Smith (1859–1934), American pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist.
  • Kim Solez (born 1946), American pathologist, father of the Banff Classification of Transplantation Pathology.
  • Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877–1947), British pathologist.
  • Sophie Spitz (1910–1956), American surgical pathologist, eponymist of Spitz nevus
  • Edward Stafne (born 1894, date of death unknown), American oral pathologist (see Stafne defect).
  • Allen Starry (1890–1973), American pathologist (see Warthin–Starry stain).
  • Javier Arias Stella (1924–2020), Peruvian pathologist, describer of the Arias Stella reaction in the endometrium.
  • Stephen Sternberg (1920–2021), American pathologist, founding Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Surgical Pathology and editor of several 20th-century pathology textbooks.
  • Arthur Purdy Stout (1885–1967). American surgeon and pathologist, & one of the fathers of modern Surgical pathology.
  • Lotte Strauss (1913–1985), American pathologist (see Churg–Strauss syndrome).

T

  • Sunao Tawara (1873–1952), Japanese pathologist, discoverer of the Atrioventricular node.
  • Donald Teare (1911–1979), British pathologist.
  • Jacques-René Tenon (1724–1816), French surgeon and pathologist.
  • Ludwig Traube (1818–1876), German physician, co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany.
  • Václav Treitz (1819–1872), Czech pathologist.
  • Charles Emile Troisier (1844–1919), French doctor.

U

  • Johann Paul Uhle (1827–1861), German physician and pathologist.
  • Paul Gerson Unna (1850–1929), one of the founders of dermatopathology.
  • James Underwood (born 1942), British pathologist.

V

  • José Verocay (1876–1927), Uruguayan pathologist (see Verocay body).
  • Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), German physician, politician, & the father of "cellular" pathology.
  • Adolf Vossius (1855–1925), German pathologist (see Vossius ring).

W

  • Erik Waaler (1903–1997), Norwegian professor of medicine.
  • Hermann Julius Gustav Wächter (born 1878, date of death unknown), German physician (see Bracht-Wachter bodies).
  • Ernst Leberecht Wagner (1829–1888), German pathologist.
  • Heinrich von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921), German anatomist.
  • Robin Warren (born 1937), Australian gastrointestinal pathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2005.
  • Aldred Scott Warthin (1866–1931), American pathologist (see Warthin–Starry stain).
  • David Weatherall (1933–2013), British physician and researcher
  • Friedrich Wegener (1907–1990), Nazi German pathologist (see granulomatosis with polyangiitis).
  • Anton Weichselbaum (1845–1920), Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
  • Carl Weigert (1845–1904), developer of histochemical stains.
  • Adolf Weil (1848–1916), German physician and pathologist (see Weil's disease).
  • Ronald S. Weinstein (1938–2021), American pathologist, inventor, educator (see Telepathology).
  • Sharon Weiss (born 1945), American surgical pathologist, expert on soft tissue pathology (see Sarcoma).
  • William Henry Welch (1850–1934), American physician, pathologist, bacteriologist, medical school administrator, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
  • Max Westenhöfer, (1871–1957), 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 (1878–1976), American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1934.
  • James Homer Wright (1869–1928), surgical pathologist and developer of histochemical stains (see Wright stain).
  • Guy Alfred Wyon (1883–1924), English pathologist, one of the team which resolved the issue of potentially-fatal TNT poisoning in shell factories during World War I

Y

  • Yamagiwa Katsusaburō (1863–1930) Japanese pathologist, developed the concept of chemical carcinogenesis.

Z

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn (1845–1904), German pathologist.
  • Friedrich Albert von Zenker (1825–1898), German pathologist and physician.
  • Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen (1829–1902), German pathologist and physician.

See also

  • Lists of people by occupation