A •
Sam Aanestad – former Californian politician •
Michele Aerden - the first female president of the
FDI World Dental Federation •
Harold Albrecht –
Conservative Party of Canada politician •
Tomas Albrektsson – implant dentistry •
Henry Aldridge – politician from North Carolina •
Bill Allen – former president of the
British Dental Association. •
Theodore C. Almquist – Brigadier General, US Air Force •
Edward Angle – father of orthodontics •
Arif Alvi – President of Pakistan •
Steve Arlin – became a dentist after playing
Major League Baseball •
Gunadasa Amarasekara – Sinhala language writer •
Amalia Assur (1803–1889) first woman dentist in Sweden and possibly Europe. •
Rafiuddin Ahmed (dentist) – Indian dentist. founded the First Dental College of India •
Ana Bedran-Russo (Brazilian) Professor of Restorative Dentistry and Chair of the Department of General Dental Sciences in Restorative Dentistry at Marquette University School of Dentistry
B •
Franz Bäke – Nazi
Panzer ace •
Britt Baker – American
professional wrestler currently performing with
All Elite Wrestling; also has a full-time dental practice in Florida •
Charles Spence Bate – authority on
crustaceans, five species are named for him •
William George Beers – established the
Montreal Lacrosse Club and the
Canada Journal of Dental Science •
Samuel Bemis – photography pioneer who became an eccentric recluse •
Hedvig Bensow - the first female dentist in
Finland •
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow – President of
Turkmenistan •
André Bolhuis – Netherlands Field Hockey Player •
Daniel Bukantz – American fencer •
Paul Beresford –
Conservative Party (UK) politician •
David Bernier – Secretary of State of
Puerto Rico •
Greene Vardiman Black – invented a foot-driven dental drill and is classed as a father of modern dentistry •
Robert Blake – wrote,
An Essay on the Structure and Formation of the Teeth in Man and Various Animals. •
Jan Boubli – French professional
poker player and retired dentist •
Allan G. Brodie – American dentist who established the Prize Essay Award to promote research •
Edgar Buchanan – primarily known for his later career as an actor in shows like
Petticoat Junction • (1702–1748), French dentist in
enamel hypoplasia research. •
Julius Bruck – also designed a water-cooled diaphanoscopic instrument for translumination of the bladder via the rectum •
Martin van Butchell – Eccentric who put his wife's head on display at his home/practice after her death •
Donald J. Butz –
U.S. Air Force Major General
C •
Madeleine-Françoise Calais - the first female dentist to obtain a license as a master dentist from the Surgical Society of Paris •
Héctor José Cámpora – President of Argentina •
Billy Cannon – American football player and counterfeiter •
Georg Carabelli – court dentist to the Austrian Emperor who founded a clinic in the
University of Vienna •
Gerald Cardinale –
Republican Party (United States) politician with a dental office in
Fort Lee, New Jersey •
James Carlisle –
Governor-General of
Antigua and Barbuda and member of the British Dental Association •
Margaret Caro - the first woman to be listed on the Dentists' Register of New Zealand •
Emma Gaudreau Casgrain - the first licensed female dentist in Canada •
Henri-Edmond Casgrain - Canadian dental surgeon, inventor, city councillor and the first motorist in
Quebec. •
Allen M. Christensen – American politician, Utah state senator •
Steve Christian – one of the
Pitcairn Island sex abusers who did dentistry and was Mayor •
Dipak Chudasama – cricketer called "The Doc" because he's a qualified dentist •
Antoni Cieszyński – Polish head of a
Stomatology Institute who was killed in the
Massacre of Lwów professors •
Bernard J. Cigrand – possibly the "Father of Flag Day" •
Barney Clark – first recipient of the
Jarvik 7 artificial heart •
Henry D. Cogswell – designed a method of securing dental plates, and in the
temperance movement •
Frederick J. Conboy – secretary of the
Ontario Dental Association and later mayor of Toronto •
Thomas Connelly – American dentist, works on teeth of celebrities •
Pierre Corbeil – Canadian politician, Quebec cabinet minister •
Dan Crane – American dentist/politician. Republican Party •
L. Adele Cuinet - pioneer American dental surgeon •
Gerry Curatola D •
Miles Dewey Davis, Jr. – ran for a seat on the State Legislature,
NAACP member, and father to
Miles Davis •
Bessie Delany – second black woman to be granted a dentistry license in New York state •
G. Walter Dittmar – former president of the
American Dental Association •
Robert Dudley – actor •
Winfield Dunn – governor of Tennessee
E •
Bill Emmerson –
California State Assembly member who had a 22-year practice •
Thomas W. Evans – founded the
University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine F •
Sheila Faith – British politician of the Conservative party •
Pierre Fauchard – wrote the first complete scientific description of dentistry •
Polonia Sanz y Ferrer - the first female dentist in Spain •
Rabab Fetieh – first Saudi female orthodontist •
Charles Finnigan (1901–1967) – Surgeon Rear Admiral in the
Royal Navy who was Honorary Dental Surgeon to
the Queen from 1955 to 1960 •
Alfred Fones (1869–1938) – came up with the name "dental hygienist" and founded that profession •
Sten Forshufvud – Swedish dentist who drew on his professional knowledge when theorizing about the poisoning of Napoleon •
Rosalie Fougelberg – Sweden's first female dentist after the profession was opened to women
G •
Samir Ghawshah – Leader of the
Palestinian Popular Struggle Front •
Michael Glick – dean of SUNY Buffalo Dental School •
John Goodsir – wrote a noted essay on teeth •
Paul Gosar – American politician, representative in Congress from Arizona •
George Franklin Grant – first African-American professor at Harvard. He also invented a wooden golf tee •
Zane Grey – author of
Riders of the Purple Sage and practicing dentist •
William Guy – Scottish dentist, creator of the Dental Act of 1921 in UK
H •
John "Dok" Hager – cartoonist whose nickname came from his days as a dentist •
Jim Harrell, Jr. – past chairman of the American Dental Association Council on Governmental Affairs, and a
Democratic Party (United States) politician •
Chapin A. Harris – co-founded the first dental school in the US, and possibly anywhere •
Gillette Hayden - served as the first female president of the
American Academy of Periodontology •
Horace H. Hayden – architect of the American system of dental education & organizer of professional dentistry •
Heimir Hallgrímsson – Icelandic football player and manager, former manager of the
Iceland men's national football team, has practiced dentistry throughout his playing and managing career. •
Harold G. Hillam – General Authority of LDS Church •
Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius - the first woman to take a full college course in dentistry, as
Lucy Hobbs Taylor received credit for her time in dental practice before attending dental college •
John Henry "Doc" Holliday – Dentist and
American Folklore icon,
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral participant •
Matthew Hopcraft – public dentistry expert and
MasterChef Australia contestant •
Les Horvath – winner of
Heisman Trophy who became a dentist •
Edward Hudson – eminent dentist when the field was new, he is also noted for making fake "ruins" •
Lester C. Hunt –
Democratic Party (United States) politician who served in the Dental Corps in
World War I.(Committed suicide)
I •
Francis Brodie Imlach – Scottish dental pioneer. First dentist to use chloroform as an anaesthetic
J •
Cheddi Jagan – former president of Guyana •
Fatima Jinnah – sister of
Muhammad Ali Jinnah and "Mother of the Nation" in Pakistan •
Emeline Roberts Jones - the first woman to practice dentistry in the United States •
Minnie Evangeline Jordon - established the first dental practice in the United States devoted only to pediatric patients, also published the first textbook on
pedodontics, titled
Operative Dentistry for Children K •
Erhard Keller –
speed skater at the
Winter Olympic Games and professional dentist for over thirty years •
Ryan Kohlmeier – former professional
baseball player in
Major League Baseball •
Michael Krop –
Democratic Party (United States) politician with a school named for him •
Peter Kunter – football player for
Eintracht Frankfurt L •
Gordon R. Lawson -New Zealand rugby player •
Donald Leake – dentist, inventor of the alloplastic tray, and oboist •
Charles Goodall Lee – first licensed dentist of Asian ancestry in the United States of America. He was a founder of
Chinatown, Oakland, California, and helped fund the founding of the
Chinese American Citizens Alliance •
Robert Lee – African-American emigrant to Ghana •
Faith Sai So Leong, also called Sai So Yeong - the first Chinese-American woman to graduate from a school of dentistry and become a dentist in the United States •
Petra Lie - the first female dentist in Norway •
Hardy Limeback – proponent who led water fluoridation efforts in Canada •
Göran Lindblad – Swedish politician •
John Linder – American politician, representative in Congress •
Lilian Lindsay the first licensed female dentist in Britain •
Jim Lonborg – in the
Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame, he is now a dentist •
Mahlon Loomis – known for a wireless telegraph patent •
Jiko Luveni – Fijian dentist who works on combatting AIDS •
Alexander Gordon Lyle – United States Navy dentist and World War I Medal of Honor recipient and first military dentist to be promoted to Flag rank (Admiral/General).
M •
Bernie Machen – president of University of Florida and University of Utah •
Edward Maynard – treated
United States Congressmen and in 1888 he held the chair of Dental Theory and Practice at the National university in Washington. (Better known for firearms inventions) •
Stanley McInnis – Canadian who moved a motion at a meeting of the
Canadian Dental Association to adopt a code of ethics, also a politician •
Markus Merk –
FIFA referee from Germany •
Ramón Mestre – former Governor of Córdoba •
Frederick B. Morrehead – helped save the
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry •
Jack Miller – "racing dentist" who was in the
Indianapolis 500 •
Bill Mlkvy – former professional
basketball player for the
Philadelphia Warriors •
Mike Morton – football player
N •
John Newbrough – of
Oahspe •
Phil Northrup – Spiritualist author •
Charlie Norwood – served in the Dental Corps and was a member of the
United States Congress •
Hessam Nowzari – founder of the Taipei Academy of Reconstructive Dentistry in Taiwan •
Frederick Bogue Noyes – organized the first course on dental pathology in the United States
O •
Giovanni Battista Orsenigo – monk/dentist •
Weedon E. Osborne – United States Navy dentist and World War I Medal of Honor recipient •
Rodrigues Ottolengui –
Sephardic Jewish dental pioneer who was one of the first to use X-rays (also wrote mystery novels)
P •
Ron Packard – Navy Dental Corps and a private practice, he was later on the
U.S. House Committee on Appropriations •
Painless Parker – dentist and huckster •
William Paulus – swimmer •
Guillermo Peschard – Mexican founder of the
UJED School of Dentistry •
Steve Petryk – curler •
Rudy Perpich – American dentist/politician of the
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party •
William Albert Pommer – Canadian politician •
Fritz Pfeffer – dentist who hid with
Anne Frank Q R •
Bessie Raiche – aviation pioneer •
Earl W. Renfroe – broke barriers for African Americans, headed a dentistry department •
Charles Richard – Canadian politician •
Jessica Rickert - the first female American Indian dentist in America •
Ida Rollins - the first African-American woman to earn a dental degree in the United States, which she earned from the
University of Michigan S •
Harry Sagansky – gangster trained in dentistry who had a practice •
Ben L. Salomon – American military dentist and World War II Medal of Honor recipient •
Hugo Sánchez – Mexican
football player •
Isaac Schour – former dean of the
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry •
Terry Schmidt – football player •
Chen Shih-chung - Taiwanese politician, the director of Taipei City Dentists Association •
Helen Rulison Shipley – first female dentist in Nevada •
Jeanne Sinkford - the first female dean of an American dental school (
Howard University, School of Dentistry) •
Mike Simpson – US representative from Idaho •
Joseph Slogan – Canadian politician •
John Smith (dentist) – founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry •
Mark Spitz – Olympic swimmer (was actually accepted to dental school, but competed in the Olympics instead) •
Charles Stent – dentist who advanced
denture making •
Charles H. Strub – sports entrepreneur •
Jon Sudbø – Norwegian dentist linked to a case of scientific misconduct
T •
Lucy Hobbs Taylor – first woman to graduate from dental school (Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 1866) •
José Roberto Magalhães Teixeira – Brazilian politician •
Mohamed Khir bin Toyo – Malaysian politician •
Joseph Trumpeldor – Zionist national hero •
Charles Murray Turpin – Republican politician in the
United States House of Representatives •
Carol I. Turner - the first female Chief of the U.S. Navy Dental Corps
U V •
Mahesh Verma – Indian prosthodontist and the Director and Principal of Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences
W •
Harold Gladstone Watkin (1882–1965) – orthodontist •
John Weisbeck – Canadian politician •
Thomas Bramwell Welch – founder of
Welch's •
Caroline Louise Josephine Wells - the first Canadian woman to graduate from any dental school •
Horace Wells – pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, later committed suicide •
Marie Imogene Williams – first African American female dentist to graduate from
Howard University's dental school, in 1896 •
Gerrit Wolsink – motocross racer
X Y •
W. J. Younger – American dentist who performed some of the earliest and most groundbreaking research in the field of
periodontology Z •
Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch – pioneer female dentist who practiced in Texas, Alaska, Arizona and California ==Fictional dentists==