List of pathologists

Thus is 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 (1761–1823), 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 (1443–1502), 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 (1966–2026), 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