List of pathologists

A

• John Abercrombie, Scottish physician, neuropathologist and philosopher.
• Maude Abbott, Canadian pathologist, one of the earliest women graduated in medicine, expert in congenital heart diseases.
• Emile Achard, French internist and pathologist.
• A. Bernard Ackerman, American dermatopathologist & dermatologist
• Lauren Ackerman, American pathologist and one of the fathers of Surgical pathology.
• Theodor Ackermann, German pathologist.
• Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz, Polish pathologist,.
• W. Stewart Alexander, contemporary British pathologist.
• Dame Ingrid Allen, Northern Irish neuropathologist.
• Friedrich August von Ammon, German ophthalmologist and pathologist.
• Gabriel Andral French pathologist.
• Peter Angritt, U.S. Army colonel and clinical pathologist
• Nikolay Anichkov, Russian pathologist.
• Julius Arnold, German pathologist.
• Ludwig Aschoff, German pathologist, discoverer of the Aschoff body and the Atrioventricular node in the heart.
• Max Askanazy, German pathologist.
• E. Ask-Upmark, 20th-century Swedish pathologist.

B

• Matthew Baillie, British physician and pathologist, credited with first identifying transposition of the great vessels and situs inversus.
• Heinrich von Bamberger, Austrian pathologist from Prague.
• Paul Clemens von Baumgarten, German pathologist.
• John Bruce Beckwith, American pathologist.
• Antonio di Paolo Benivieni, Florentine physician who pioneered the use of the autopsy and many medical historians have considered him a founder of pathology.
• Franz Best, German pathologist.
• Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist, remembered as father of modern histology and pathology.
• Max Bielschowsky, German neuropathologist & developer of histochemical stains.
• Edmund Biernacki, Polish pathologist .
• Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld, German pathologist.
• Giulio Bizzozero, Italian doctor and medical researcher.
• Otto Bollinger, German pathologist.
• Charles-Joseph Bouchard, French pathologist.
• William Boyd, Scottish-Canadian physician, pathologist, academic and author of several 20th-century textbooks on general and surgical pathology.
• Erich Franz Eugen Bracht, German pathologist and gynaecologist.
• Fritz Brenner, German pathologist.
• Alexander Breslow, American pathologist.
• Richard Bright, British internist and pathologist.
• Ludwig von Buhl, German pathologist.

C

• Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1906
• Francis Camps, English forensic pathologist.
• Myrtelle Canavan, American physician, medical researcher, and one of the first female pathologists.
• Karl Friedrich Canstatt, German physician, pathologist, and medical author.
• Marie Cassidy, Irish forensic pathologist.
• Benjamin Castleman, American surgical pathologist and eponymist of Castleman's disease.
• Jamie Chapman, Australian ground-breaking histologist.
• Hans Chiari, Austrian pathologist.
• Jacob Churg, Russian-born American pathologist.
• Giuseppe Vincenzo Ciaccio, Italian anatomist and histologist.
• Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, German pathologist known for his research on the mechanism of inflammation and the study of circulation.
• Albert Coons, American physician, immunologist, & immunopathologist.
• Astley Cooper, English surgeon, anatomist & pathologist.
• Victor André Cornil, French pathologist and histologist.
• Dominic Corrigan, Irish physician & pathologist.
• Ramzi Cotran, American pathologist
• William Thomas Councilman, American pathologist.
• Jean Cruveilhier, French anatomist and pathologist.

D

• David C. Dahlin American surgical & orthopedic pathologist.
• Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance French pathologist.
• Ferdinand-Jean Darier, French pathologist and dermatologist.
• James R. Dawson, American pathologist.
• Francis Delafield, American physician & pathologist.
• Franz Dittrich, Austrian-Bohemian-German pathologist.
• Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle, German pathologist & histologist.
• William L. Donohue, Canadian pathologist.
• Georges Dreyer, Danish pathologist, professor of pathology at Oxford University.
• I. N. Dubin, American pathologist.
• Cuthbert Dukes, English physician and pathologist for whom the Dukes classification for colorectal cancer is named.
• Guillaume Dupuytren, French military surgeon & surgical pathologist.

E

• Karl Joseph Eberth, German pathologist and bacteriologist.
• William E. Ehrich, German-American pathologist, professor of pathology at Philadelphia General Hospital and the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.
• Paul Ehrlich, German physician, researcher and pathologist, Nobel laureate, one of the founders of immunology & laboratory medicine.
• Jakob Erdheim, Austrian pathologist.
• James Ewing, 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, Swedish pathologist.
• Sidney Farber, American pediatric pathologist, regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy, and after whom the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute is named.
• Martin J. Fettman, American veterinarian, veterinary pathologist, and astronaut
• Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish physician & pathologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1926.
• Paul Flechsig, German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist.
• Christopher D. M. Fletcher, Anglo-American pathologist
• Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, German pathologist.
• Nikolaus Friedreich, German pathologist and neurologist.
• August von Froriep, German anatomist.
• Robert Froriep, German anatomist and medical publisher.

G

• Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt, German pathologist
• Joseph von Gerlach, German professor of anatomy, pioneer of histological staining and micrography
• Gustav Giemsa, German physician, pathologist, & histochemist
• Anthony Gill, Australian pathologist and medical researcher
• Camillo Golgi, Italian neuropathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1906
• Ernest Goodpasture, American pathologist, eponymist of Goodpasture's syndrome
• Austin Gresham, English forensic pathologist

H

• Hakaru Hashimoto, Japanese medical scientist.
• Ludvig Hektoen, American researcher on pathology of infectious diseases.
• Arnold Ludwig Gotthilf Heller, German anatomist and pathologist.
• Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist and anatomist.
• Richard L. Heschl, Austrian anatomist & pathologist.
• Thomas Hodgkin, English physician & pathologist; eponymist of Hodgkin's disease.
• Friedrich Albin Hoffmann, German internist and pathologist.
• Jason Hornick, American pathologist and researcher
• Karl Hürthle, German physiologist and histologist.
• Helen Hart, American plant pathologist

J

• Elaine Jaffe, American pathologist, expert in research, diagnostics and classification of lymphomas, particularly follicular lymphoma.

K

• Fujiro Katsurada, Japanese pathologist.
• Eduard Kaufmann, German pathologist.
• Ernest Kennaway, English clinical chemist and researcher on carcinogenesis.
• Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, controversial advocate of euthanasia.
• Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist.
• Julius von Kossa 19th-century Austro-Hungarian pathologist.
• Leiv Kreyberg, Norwegian war hero, humanitarian and pathologist known for typology of lung cancer.
• Hans Kundrat, Austrian pathologist.
• Kathleen Coard, Grenadian pathologist.

L

• Paul Eston Lacy, former chairperson of pathology at Washington University and diabetes researcher.
• Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, physiologist and biologist.
• William Boog Leishman, English authority on the pathology of human parasitic diseases
• George Lignac, Dutch pathologist-anatomist.
• Henrique da Rocha Lima, Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist
• James Linder, American cytopathologist and technological developer
• Leo Loeb, American pathologist and early cancer researcher.
• Esmond Ray Long, American pathologist, epidemiologist, and medical historian.

M

• Frank Burr Mallory, American surgical pathologist & histochemist
• Rod Markin American pioneer in laboratory automation.
• Alexander A. Maximow, Russian-American scientist, histologist and embryologist.
• John McCrae, Canadian pathologist, physician, soldier and poet, author of .
• Frances Gertrude McGill, 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, Italian pathologist, considered the father of modern Anatomical Pathology

N

• Heijiro Nakayama, Japanese pathologist.
• Bernhard Naunyn, German pathologist.
• Franz Ernst Christian Neumann, German pathologist.
• Thomas Noguchi, Japanese American forensic pathologist & medical examiner.

O

• Shuji Ogino, Japanese pathologist, epidemiologist, Harvard University professor, and pioneer in molecular pathological epidemiology.
• Eugene Lindsay Opie, American pathologist and researcher on tuberculosis.
• Johannes Orth, German pathologist.
• William Osler, Canadian physician and pathologist, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

P

• Richard Paltauf, Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
• George Nicolas Papanicolaou, Greek-American cytopathologist & developer of the Papanicolaou cervical smear
• Artur Pappenheim, German physician, developer of histochemical stains.
• Lukáš Plank, Slovak pathologist specializing in oncopathology and hematopathology.
• Emil Ponfick, German pathologist.

R

• Louis-Antoine Ranvier, French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer of nodes of Ranvier.
• Ronald Rapini, US dermatopathologist; discoverer of sclerotic fibroma.
• Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, German pathologist.
• Benno Reinhardt, German physician, specialized in pathological anatomy.
• Donald Rix, founder of a Canadian commercial pathology laboratory.
• Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian autopsy pathologist.
• Juan Rosai, Italian-American surgical pathologist, discoverer of Rosai-Dorfman disease and the desmoplastic small round cell tumor.
• Gustave Roussy, Swiss-French neuropathologist.

S

• Christian Georg Schmorl, German pathologist.
• Richard Scolyer, Australian pathologist
• Johann Lukas Schönlein, German naturalist, and pathologist.
• Charles Scott Sherrington, English neuropathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1932
• Richard Shope, American virologist and pathologist.
• Keith Simpson, English forensic pathologist.
• Maud Slye, American experimental pathologist.
• Theobald Smith, American pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist.
• Kim Solez, American pathologist, father of the Banff Classification of Transplantation Pathology.
• Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British pathologist.
• Sophie Spitz, American surgical pathologist, eponymist of Spitz nevus
• Edward Stafne, American oral pathologist.
• Allen Starry, American pathologist.
• Javier Arias Stella, Peruvian pathologist, describer of the Arias Stella reaction in the endometrium.
• Stephen Sternberg, American pathologist, founding Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Surgical Pathology and editor of several 20th-century pathology textbooks.
• Arthur Purdy Stout. American surgeon and pathologist, & one of the fathers of modern Surgical pathology.
• Lotte Strauss, American pathologist.

T

• Sunao Tawara, Japanese pathologist, discoverer of the Atrioventricular node.
• Donald Teare, British pathologist.
• Jacques-René Tenon, French surgeon and pathologist.
• Ludwig Traube, German physician, co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany.
• Václav Treitz, Czech pathologist.
• Charles Emile Troisier, French doctor.

U

• Johann Paul Uhle, German physician and pathologist.
• Paul Gerson Unna, one of the founders of dermatopathology.
• James Underwood, British pathologist.

V

• José Verocay, Uruguayan pathologist.
• Rudolf Virchow, German physician, politician, & the father of "cellular" pathology.
• Adolf Vossius, German pathologist.

W

• Erik Waaler, Norwegian professor of medicine.
• Hermann Julius Gustav Wächter, German physician.
• Ernst Leberecht Wagner, German pathologist.
• Heinrich von Waldeyer-Hartz, German anatomist.
• Robin Warren, Australian gastrointestinal pathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2005.
• Aldred Scott Warthin, American pathologist.
• David Weatherall, British physician and researcher
• Friedrich Wegener, Nazi German pathologist.
• Anton Weichselbaum, Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
• Carl Weigert, developer of histochemical stains.
• Adolf Weil, German physician and pathologist.
• Ronald S. Weinstein, American pathologist, inventor, educator.
• Sharon Weiss, American surgical pathologist, expert on soft tissue pathology.
• William Henry Welch, American physician, pathologist, bacteriologist, medical school administrator, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
• Max Westenhöfer,, 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, American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1934.
• James Homer Wright, surgical pathologist and developer of histochemical stains.
• Guy Alfred Wyon, 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 Japanese pathologist, developed the concept of chemical carcinogenesis.

Z

• Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn, German pathologist.
• Friedrich Albert von Zenker, German pathologist and physician.
• Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen, German pathologist and physician.