List of veterinarians

Real-life veterinarians

A

• Wayne Allard – U.S. Senator
• Maurice Allen – veterinary pathologist

B

• Chris Back – Australian Senator
• Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang – Danish veterinarian who discovered Brucella abortus
• Denis Barberet – French bibliographer and author
• Harold William Bennetts – Australian known for research on livestock and the toxic effects of native Australian plants
• Natanael Berg – Swedish composer
• Reidar Birkeland – professor at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
• Baxter Black – U.S. radio commentator
• Marie-Claude Bomsel – wildlife expert
• Alfred Boquet – French veterinarian, known for his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris
• Claude Bourgelat – founder of 18th-century French veterinary school
• Anton Johnson Brandt – professor of pathological anatomy at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
• Chris Brown – known for the Australian television series ''Bondi Vet''

C

• Nelson R. Çabej – Albania evolutionary biologist and author
• Charles J Coottes Campbell British/Commonwealth equine veterinarian
• Louis J. Camuti – first American cat veterinarian
• Philibert Chabert – French agronomist who wrote on early treatise on anthrax control
• Craig Challen – Australian diver and caver
• John A. Charlton – Canadian politician
• Auguste Chauveau – French veterinarian, in whose honor the bacterium Clostridium chauvoei is named
• Matthew Clarke – former professional Australian rules footballer
• Ken Coghill – former Australian politician
• Robert Cook – British equine veterinarian
• Robin Coombs – British immunologist, co-discoverer of the Coombs test
• Harry Cooper – Australian television personality
• Miguel Cordero del Campillo – Spanish parasitologist

D

• Morné de la Rey – South African veterinarian who was the first person in Africa to clone an animal, as well as first person to do successful IVF in Cape Buffalo in the world.
• Darlene Dixon – American veterinarian and toxicologic pathologist
• Sydney Dodd – British veterinary surgeon who was the first lecturer in veterinary bacteriology at the University of Sydney
• Peter C. Doherty – Australian veterinary surgeon and researcher joint recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Mick Doyle – Irish rugby player
• Petrus Johann du Toit – South African veterinarian
• John Boyd Dunlop – Scottish inventor of the tyre

E

• Henrik Edland – professor of anatomy at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
• John Ensign – U.S. Senator

F

• Martin J. Fettman – U.S. astronaut and veterinary pathologist
• Kevin Fitzgerald – American television documentary veterinarian
• Bruce Fogle – Canadian veterinarian
• Birger Furugård – Swedish politician

G

• Doug Galt – former Canadian politician
• Pierre-Victor Galtier – French veterinarian, notable for his research into rabies.
• Hugh Gordon – Australian parasitologist
• John Russell Greig – Scottish veterinarian, notable for his research into milk fever
• Camille Guérin – developed a vaccine for tuberculosis

H

• James Hallen – British veterinarian who served as General Superintendent of Horse Breeding in India
• Greg J. Harrison – avian veterinarian
• Susanne Hart – South African environmentalist
• Antonie Marinus Harthoorn – conservationist who worked in Africa
• Herbert Haupt – Austrian politician
• James Herriot – pen name of James Alfred Wight, author of books about animals
• Vanessa M. Hirsch – Canadian-American veterinary pathologist and virologist
• Thomas William Hogarth – Scottish-Australian veterinarian, writer on dogs
• John Holt – Australian veterinarian and sports shooter
• William Hunting – founder of ''The Veterinary Record''

J

• Dawda Jawara – first president of Gambia
• Joan O. Joshua

K

• Mark D Kittleson – American veterinary cardiologist, researcher, and educator

L

• Amy K. LeBlanc – U.S. veterinary oncologist
• Richard M. Linnehan – U.S. astronaut
• Buster Lloyd-Jones – British veterinary surgeon

M

• Svend Lomholt – Danish veterinarian
• Zoltán Magyar – Hungarian gymnast; gold medalist in men's pommel horse at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics
• Miguel Ángel J. Márquez Ruiz – Mexican veterinarian
• 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
• Keith Meldrum – Chief Veterinary Officer of the United Kingdom
• Veranus Alva Moore – Dean of Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
• Suzanne Morrow – Canadian figure skater who took the Official's Oath at the 1988 Winter Olympics

N

• Denis Napthine – Australian politician
• Rich Nye – American professional baseball pitcher turned exotic animal/avian veterinarian

O

• Peter Ostrum – child actor who was Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory''

P

• Frederick Douglass Patterson – recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987, the highest civilian honor in the U.S.
• Sonny Perdue – U.S. politician, former Governor of Georgia
• Brian Perry – epidemiologist
• Walter Plowright – English veterinary scientist who worked to eradicate rinderpest

R

• Nicky Rackard – Irish hurler
• Carl Gottlob Rafn – Danish multi-disciplinary scientist
• Robert L. Rooks – American veterinarian
• John Gunion Rutherford – Canadian politician

S

• Suzanne Saueressig – first practicing female veterinarian in Missouri
• Elmo Shropshire – best known as the singer of the novelty Christmas song "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"
• Erzsébet Simonyi – first woman to earn a veterinary degree in Hungary and founder of the Veterinary Vaccine Control Institute.
• Brian Sinclair – best known for his association with James Alfred Wight who fictionalized him as Tristan Farnon
• Donald Sinclair – best known as partner to James Alfred Wight who fictionalized him as Sigfried Farnon
• Danielle Spencer – actor
• Harry Spira – Australian pioneer in dog breeding technologies
• Leonid Stadnyk – Ukrainian veterinarian renowned for his height
• Harry Steele-Bodger – British veterinarian
• Michael G. Strain – American veterinarian who is the incumbent Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner

T

• Arnold Theiler – described the horse disease which became known as Theiler's disease
• James Thomson – American developmental biologist who derived the first human embryonic stem cell line in 1998
• Simon Fraser Tolmie – Canadian politician
• Debbye Turner – Miss America 1990, resident veterinarian for CBS' ''The Early Show''

V

• Erik Viborg – Danish veterinarian and botanist

W

• Hugh Wirth – Australian animal welfare advocate with RSPCA Australia, radio broadcaster

Y

• Sophia Yin – American animal behaviorist and pioneer of positive reinforcement training for pets.
• William Youatt – English veterinary surgeon and animal welfare writer

Z

• Robert Zammit – Australian television veterinarian

Fictional veterinarians

• From the British soap opera Emmerdale:
• *Rhona Goskirk
• *Max King
• *Paddy Kirk
• *Hari Prasad
• *Zoe Tate
• From the Australian soap opera Neighbours:
• *Steve Parker
• *Gemma Ramsay
• From the children's books series The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Doctor Dolittle
• From the US television series The Walking Dead: Hershel Greene
• From the South Korean drama series Hey Ghost, Let's Fight: Joo Hye-sung
• From the South Korean drama series The King's Doctor: Baek Kwang-hyun
• From the Japanese drama series Is There a Vet in the House?: Kentarō Shiba
• From the Japanese manga Kisei Jūi Suzune: Suzune Arizono
• From the Japanese manga Wild Life: Tesshō Iwashiro