List of pathologists

• 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 (born 1933), 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==