List of immunologists

This is a list of notable immunologists.

Pioneers

 * Edward Jenner (1749-1823), discovered that cowpox induces protection against smallpox
 * Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), his experiments confirmed the germ theory of disease, he also created the first vaccine for rabies

Nobel laureates

 * 1901 Emil Adolf von Behring (1854-1917), "for his serum therapy to treat diphtheria" (First ever Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1908 Eli Metchnikoff (1845-1916) and Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), "for study of the immune system"
 * 1919 Jules Bordet (1870-1961), "for discovery of the complement system in the immune system"
 * 1930 Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943), "for discovery of human blood types"
 * 1960 Peter B. Medawar (1915-1987) and Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985), "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"
 * 1972 Gerald Maurice Edelman (1929-2014) and Rodney Robert Porter (1917-1985), "for discovering the chemical structure of antibodies"
 * 1980 Baruj Benacerraf (1920-2011), Jean Dausset (1916-2009) and George Davis Snell (1903-1996), "for discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self"
 * 1984 Niels Jerne (1911-1994), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946-1995) and César Milstein (1927-2002), "for work on the immune system and the production of monoclonal antibodies"
 * 1987 Susumu Tonegawa (1939-), "for discovering how the large diversity of antibodies is produced genetically"
 * 1989 J. Michael Bishop (1936-) and Harold E. Varmus (1939-), "for discovering the cellular origins of retroviral oncogenes"
 * 1996 Peter C. Doherty (1940-) and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944-), "for describing how MHC molecules are used by white blood cells to detect and kill virus-infected cells."
 * 2011 Bruce Beutler (1957-), Jules A. Hoffmann (1941-), "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and Ralph Marvin Steinman (1943-2011)"for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"
 * 2018 James P. Allison (1948-) and Tasuku Honjo (1942-), "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation."

Notable immunologists

 * Vital Brazil (1865–1950)
 * Alan Aderem, innate immunity
 * Akiko Iwasaki (1970-)
 * Lorne Babiuk (1946-)
 * Mike Belosevic (1951-)
 * Kiril Bratanov (1911-1986), pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction
 * William Coley (1862-1936), pioneer of cancer immunotherapy
 * Albert Coons (1912-1978), developed immunofluorescent techniques for labelling antibodies
 * Max D. Cooper (1933-), identification of T and B cells
 * Yehuda Danon (1940-)
 * Deborah Doniach (1912-2004), organ-specific auto-immunity
 * Eva Engvall (1940-), one of the scientists who invented ELISA in 1971.
 * Anthony Fauci (1940-)
 * Denise Faustman (1958-), Type 1 diabetes
 * William Frankland (1912-2020), popularisation of the UK pollen count, and prediction of increased penicillin allergy
 * Ian Frazer (1953-), development of a cervical cancer vaccine
 * Samuel O. Freedman (1928-), discovered Carcinoembryonic antigen
 * Jules T. Freund (1890-1960)
 * Sankar Ghosh
 * John Grange (1943-2016)
 * Waldemar Haffkine (1860-1930), first microbiologist who developed and used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague.
 * Michael Heidelberger (1888-1991), showed that antibodies are proteins
 * George Heist (1886-1920)
 * Leonard Herzenberg (1931-2013)
 * Miroslav Holub (1923-1998)
 * Charles Janeway (1943-2003), wrote the standard textbook Immunobiology
 * Dermot Kelleher
 * Tadamitsu Kishimoto (1939-)
 * Jan Klein (1936-), Mhc
 * Mary Loveless (1899-1991), insect venom allergy
 * Tak Wah Mak (1946-), discovery of the T-cell receptor
 * Alberto Mantovani
 * Polly Matzinger (1947-), immunological tolerance, Danger Model, Hyppo Model
 * Ira Mellman
 * Jacques Miller (1931-)
 * Avrion Mitchison (1928-)
 * Michael Neuberger (1953-2013)
 * Evelyn Nicol (1930-2020)
 * Alan Munro (1937-)
 * Gustav Nossal (1931-)
 * Santa J. Ono (1962-)
 * Thomas Platts-Mills (1941-), discovered dust-mite allergen and alpha-gal allergy from tick bites
 * Nicholas P. Restifo (1960-)
 * Ivan Roitt (1927-)
 * Jon van Rood (1926-2017), pioneer in the field of HLA and immunogenetics of transplantation, the founder of the international organ exchange organization Eurotransplant
 * Mario Rosemblatt (1941-), who established that dendritic cells are responsible for imprinting the tissue-specific homing of T lymphocytes
 * Fred Rosen (1930-2005), discovered the cause of X-linked hyper IgM syndrome
 * Shimon Sakaguchi (1948-), discovery of regulatory T cells
 * Louis W. Sauer (1885-1980), perfected pertussis vaccine, developed diphtheria/p daertussis/tetanus vaccine
 * Emil Skamene (1941-)
 * Filip Swirski, professor, researcher and scientist, known for novel findings in Linking atherosclerosis with blood monocytosis (1974-)
 * David Talmage (1919-2014), clonal selection theory
 * James S. Tan (1927-2006)
 * Reyes Tamez (1952-)
 * Kevin J. Tracey (1957-)
 * Jan Vilcek (1933-)
 * Ellen Vitetta
 * Alexander S. Wiener (1907-1976)
 * Don Wiley (1944-2001), crystallography of HLA proteins
 * Ian Wilson (biologist)
 * Ernst Witebsky (1901-1969), isolation and partial characterization of A and B blood antigens
 * Jian Zhou (1957-1999), with co-inventor Ian Frazer has priority for invention of Virus-like particle and HPV vaccine

Immunologists in popular culture

 * Allison Cameron, character on the television series House M.D.