List of veterinarians
Veterinarians and veterinary surgeons are medical professionals who operate exclusively on animals. This is a list of notable veterinarians, both real and fictional.
Real-life veterinarians
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- 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
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- Martin J. Fettman – U.S. astronaut and veterinary pathologist
- Kevin Fitzgerald – American television documentary veterinarian
- Bruce Fogle – Canadian veterinarian
- Birger Furugård – Swedish politician
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Peter Ostrum – child actor who was Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory''
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- 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