List of dentists

This is a list of dentists who have gained a degree of notability, particularly with regard to the history of those in the field.

A

 * Sam Aanestad – former Californian politician
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Saskia Estupiñán – Ecuadoran oral health researcher and advisor, known for her work with the World Health Organization
 * 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
 * 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 – early female dentist in Sweden

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, or possibly anywhere
 * 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
 * Gay Hitler – Pickaway County, Ohio pioneer
 * 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

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.
 * Hardy Limeback – proponent who led water fluoridation efforts in Canada
 * Göran Lindblad – Swedish politician
 * John Linder – American politician, representative in Congress
 * 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

R

 * Bessie Raiche – aviation pioneer
 * Earl W. Renfroe – broke barriers for African Americans, headed a dentistry department
 * Charles Richard – Canadian politician

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
 * Helen Rulison Shipley – first female dentist in Nevada
 * 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 Dentures making
 * Charles H. Strub – sports entrepreneur
 * Jon Sudbø – Norwegian dentist linked to a case of scientific misconduct

T

 * Lucy Hobbs Taylor – first female in the United States with a doctorate in dentistry
 * 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

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
 * Horace Wells – pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, later committed suicide
 * Gerrit Wolsink – motocross racer

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

 * The aforementioned Britt Baker is routinely introduced in All Elite Wrestling as "Dr. Britt Baker, DMD", reflecting her real-life dental practice.
 * Jeremy Hillary Boob (voiced by Dick Emery) – from Yellow Submarine.
 * Matthew Brock – from NewsRadio. (Although he gave it up to work in radio and is only seen practicing in one episode)
 * Dr. Carey – from Stuart Little
 * Dr. Dillingham – from Prostho Plus.
 * Walt Duncan – head of the household at the centre of comic strip Zits.
 * Dr. Tariq Faraj – from Oz.
 * Dr. Phoebus Farb – from The Little Shop of Horrors
 * Dr. Barry Farber – Rachel's fiancé whom she left at the altar from Friends.
 * The unnamed W.C. Fields character in the 1932 short film The Dentist.
 * Bob Fish – a title character in Bob and Margaret.
 * Wendell and Monica Wilkins: originally only named as Mr. and Mrs. Granger, parents of Hermione Granger – from the Harry Potter novels.
 * Julia Harris – from the film Horrible Bosses.
 * Ben Harper – from British sitcom My Family.
 * Brock Hart – from the TV series Reba.
 * Hermey the Elf – became a dentist in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys, prior was an elf.
 * Jesse W. Heywood (Don Knotts) – from the 1968 comedy film The Shakiest Gun in the West, a remake of Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948).
 * Orson Hodge – from Desperate Housewives.
 * Carl Howell (John Stamos) – from the TV series Glee.
 * Nonoko Kishii – from The Dragon Dentist.
 * Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) – Manhattan dentist in the 1979 comedy film The In-Laws.
 * Capt. Walter Koskiusko Waldowski, "Painless Pole" – in MASH.
 * Dr. Molar Fox, resident dentist of Lake Hoohaw in the Playhouse Disney show PB&J Otter.
 * Bernard Nadler – from the TV series Lost.
 * Zen'nosuke Maki – from the TV series Manpuku.
 * Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky – from The Whole Nine Yards and The Whole Ten Yards.
 * John Patterson – in For Better or For Worse.
 * Peter "Painless" Potter (Bob Hope) – from the 1948 comedy film The Paleface. Bumbling dentist who was fooled into believing that he was a deadly gunfighter.
 * Lincoln Rice DDS – from Broad City.
 * Jerry Robinson – orthodontist who shared the office suite on the Bob Newhart Show
 * Miss Root – dentist in the book Demon Dentist by David Walliams
 * Dr. Frank Sangster – in Novocaine.
 * Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. – Little Shop of Horrors, played by Steve Martin in the film adaptation
 * Gen. Tarsal – from Adventure Time episode “Dentist”
 * Dr. Teeth – of The Muppets, revealed to be Gerald Teeth Jr DDS in The Muppets Mayhem
 * Tina Teeth – Dr Teeth's mother in The Muppets Mayhem
 * Dr. Charley Shanowski (Ted McGinley) – from Hope & Faith
 * Eugene Sutphin (Sam Waterston) – from Serial Mom.
 * Christian Szell – from William Goldman's Marathon Man, later a movie by John Schlesinger
 * Noah Werner (Alan Tudyk) – Suburgatory (TV series)
 * Tim Whatley (Bryan Cranston) and Mr. Abbot (Robert Wagner) – from the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, Whatley alleged to be an insincere convert to Judaism.
 * Julian Winston – adulterer in the play ) and its film adaptation
 * Dr. Wolfe – from The Simpsons
 * Isaac Yankem, DDS – professional wrestler portrayed by Glenn Jacobs, now known as Kane, in the WWF

Other

 * Greeeen – four member Japanese pop music band consisting entirely of dentists who studied at Ohu University in Fukushima