List of pathologists

A list of people notable in the field of pathology.

A

 * John Abercrombie, Scottish physician, neuropathologist and philosopher.
 * Maude Abbott (1869–1940), Canadian pathologist, one of the earliest women graduated in medicine, expert in congenital heart diseases.
 * Emile Achard (1860–1944), French internist and pathologist.
 * A. Bernard Ackerman (1936–2008), American dermatopathologist & dermatologist
 * Lauren Ackerman (1905–1993), American pathologist and one of the fathers of Surgical pathology.
 * Theodor Ackermann (1825–1896), German pathologist.
 * Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz (1850–1921), Polish pathologist, (see Artery of Adamkiewicz).
 * W. Stewart Alexander, contemporary British pathologist (see Alexander disease).
 * Dame Ingrid Allen, Northern Irish neuropathologist.
 * Friedrich August von Ammon (1799–1861), German ophthalmologist and pathologist.
 * Gabriel Andral (1797–1876) French pathologist.
 * Nikolay Anichkov (1885–1964), Russian pathologist.
 * Julius Arnold (1835–1915), German pathologist.
 * Ludwig Aschoff (1866–1942), German pathologist, discoverer of the Aschoff body and the Atrioventricular node in the heart.
 * Max Askanazy (1865–1940), German pathologist (see Askanazy cell).
 * E. Ask-Upmark, 20th-century Swedish pathologist (see Ask-Upmark kidney).

B

 * Matthew Baillie (1761–1823), British physician and pathologist, credited with first identifying transposition of the great vessels and situs inversus.
 * Heinrich von Bamberger (1822–1888), Austrian pathologist from Prague.
 * Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1848–1928), German pathologist.
 * John Bruce Beckwith (born 1933), American pathologist (see Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome).
 * Antonio di Paolo Benivieni (1443–1502), Florentine physician who pioneered the use of the autopsy and many medical historians have considered him a founder of pathology.
 * Franz Best (1878–1920), German pathologist (see Best's disease).
 * Xavier Bichat (1771–1802), French anatomist and physiologist, remembered as father of modern histology and pathology.
 * Max Bielschowsky (1869–1940), German neuropathologist & developer of histochemical stains.
 * Edmund Biernacki (1866–1912), Polish pathologist (see Biernacki Reaction).
 * Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld (1842–1899), German pathologist.
 * Giulio Bizzozero (1846–1901), Italian doctor and medical researcher.
 * Otto Bollinger (1843–1909), German pathologist.
 * Charles-Joseph Bouchard (1837–1915), French pathologist.
 * William Boyd (1885–1979), Scottish-Canadian physician, pathologist, academic and author of several 20th-century textbooks on general and surgical pathology.
 * Erich Franz Eugen Bracht (1882–1969), German pathologist and gynaecologist.
 * Fritz Brenner (1877–1969), German pathologist (see Brenner tumor).
 * Alexander Breslow (1928–1980), American pathologist (see Breslow's depth).
 * Richard Bright (1789–1858), British internist and pathologist (see Bright's disease).
 * Ludwig von Buhl (1816–1880), German pathologist.

C

 * Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish pathologist and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1906
 * Francis Camps (1905–1972), English forensic pathologist.
 * Myrtelle Canavan (1879–1953), American physician, medical researcher, and one of the first female pathologists (see Canavan disease).
 * Karl Friedrich Canstatt (1807–1850), German physician, pathologist, and medical author.
 * Marie Cassidy (born 1959), Irish forensic pathologist.
 * Benjamin Castleman (1906–1982), American surgical pathologist and eponymist of Castleman's disease.
 * Jamie Chapman (1970–present), Australian ground-breaking histologist.
 * Hans Chiari (1851–1916), Austrian pathologist (see Arnold–Chiari malformation, Budd–Chiari syndrome).
 * Jacob Churg (1910–2005), Russian-born American pathologist (see Churg–Strauss syndrome).
 * Giuseppe Vincenzo Ciaccio (1824–1901), Italian anatomist and histologist.
 * Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839–1884), German pathologist known for his research on the mechanism of inflammation and the study of circulation.
 * Albert Coons (1912–1978), American physician, immunologist, & immunopathologist.
 * Astley Cooper (1768–1841), English surgeon, anatomist & pathologist.
 * Victor André Cornil (1837–1908), French pathologist and histologist.
 * Dominic Corrigan (1802–1880), Irish physician & pathologist (see Corrigan's pulse).
 * Ramzi Cotran, American pathologist
 * William Thomas Councilman (1854–1933), American pathologist (see Councilman body).
 * Jean Cruveilhier (1791–1874), French anatomist and pathologist (see Cruveilhier's sign, Cruveilhier–Baumgarten disease).

D

 * David C. Dahlin (1917–2003) American surgical & orthopedic pathologist.
 * Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance (1797–1832) French pathologist.
 * Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856–1938), French pathologist and dermatologist.
 * James R. Dawson (1908–1986), American pathologist (see Dawson encephalitis).
 * Francis Delafield (1841–1915), American physician & pathologist.
 * Franz Dittrich (1815–1859), Austrian-Bohemian-German pathologist.
 * Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle (1855–1928), German pathologist & histologist (see Döhle bodies).
 * William L. Donohue (1906–1985), Canadian pathologist (see Donohue syndrome).
 * Georges Dreyer (1873–1934), Danish pathologist, professor of pathology at Oxford University.
 * I. N. Dubin (born 1913), American pathologist (see Dubin–Johnson syndrome).
 * Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), English physician and pathologist for whom the Dukes classification for colorectal cancer is named.
 * Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), French military surgeon & surgical pathologist.

E

 * Karl Joseph Eberth (1835–1926), German pathologist and bacteriologist.
 * William E. Ehrich (1900–1967), German-American pathologist, professor of pathology at Philadelphia General Hospital and the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.
 * Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German physician, researcher and pathologist, Nobel laureate, one of the founders of immunology & laboratory medicine.
 * Jakob Erdheim (1874–1937), Austrian pathologist (see Erdheim–Chester disease).
 * James Ewing (1866–1943), 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 (1888–1968), Swedish pathologist (see Fåhræus effect and Fåhræus–Lindqvist effect).
 * Sidney Farber (1903–1973), American pediatric pathologist, regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy, and after whom the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute is named.
 * Martin J. Fettman (born 1956), American veterinarian, veterinary pathologist, and astronaut
 * Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1867–1928), Danish physician & pathologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1926.
 * Paul Flechsig (1847–1929), German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist.
 * Christopher D. M. Fletcher, Anglo-American pathologist
 * Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819–1885), German pathologist.
 * Nikolaus Friedreich (1825–1882), German pathologist and neurologist.
 * August von Froriep (1849–1917), German anatomist.
 * Robert Froriep (1804–1861), German anatomist and medical publisher.

G

 * Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt (1833–1902), German pathologist
 * Joseph von Gerlach (1820–1896), German professor of anatomy, pioneer of histological staining and micrography
 * Gustav Giemsa (1867–1948), German physician, pathologist, & histochemist (see Giemsa stain)
 * Anthony Gill (born 1972), Australian pathologist and medical researcher
 * Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian neuropathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1906
 * Ernest Goodpasture (1886–1960), American pathologist, eponymist of Goodpasture's syndrome
 * Austin Gresham (1925–2009), English forensic pathologist

H

 * Hakaru Hashimoto (1881–1934), Japanese medical scientist.
 * Ludvig Hektoen (1863–1951), American researcher on pathology of infectious diseases.
 * Arnold Ludwig Gotthilf Heller (1840–1913), German anatomist and pathologist.
 * Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809–1885), German physician, pathologist and anatomist.
 * Richard L. Heschl (1824–1881), Austrian anatomist & pathologist.
 * Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866), English physician & pathologist; eponymist of Hodgkin's disease.
 * Friedrich Albin Hoffmann (1843–1924), German internist and pathologist.
 * Jason Hornick, American pathologist and researcher
 * Karl Hürthle (1860–1945), German physiologist and histologist.
 * Helen Hart (1900–1971), American plant pathologist

J

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

K

 * Fujiro Katsurada (1867–1946), Japanese pathologist.
 * Eduard Kaufmann (1860–1931), German pathologist.
 * Ernest Kennaway (1881–1958), English clinical chemist and researcher on carcinogenesis.
 * Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011), American pathologist, controversial advocate of euthanasia.
 * Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (1834–1913), German-Swiss pathologist.
 * Julius von Kossa 19th-century Austro-Hungarian pathologist (see Von Kossa stain).
 * Leiv Kreyberg (1896–1984), Norwegian war hero, humanitarian and pathologist known for typology of lung cancer.
 * Hans Kundrat (1845–1893), Austrian pathologist.
 * Kathleen Coard (born 1952), Grenadian pathologist.

L

 * Paul Eston Lacy (1924–2005), former chairperson of pathology at Washington University and diabetes researcher.
 * Paul Langerhans (1847–1888), German pathologist, physiologist and biologist.
 * William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), English authority on the pathology of human parasitic diseases (see leishmaniasis)
 * George Lignac (1891–1954), Dutch pathologist-anatomist.
 * Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879–1956), Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist
 * James Linder (born 1954), American cytopathologist and technological developer
 * Leo Loeb (1869–1959), American pathologist and early cancer researcher.
 * Esmond Ray Long (1890–1970), American pathologist, epidemiologist, and medical historian.

M

 * Frank Burr Mallory (1862–1941), American surgical pathologist & histochemist (see Mallory bodies)
 * Rod Markin (born 1956) American pioneer in laboratory automation.
 * Alexander A. Maximow (1874–1928), Russian-American scientist, histologist and embryologist.
 * John McCrae (1872–1918), Canadian pathologist, physician, soldier and poet, author of [In Flanders Fields].
 * Frances Gertrude McGill (1882–1959), 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 (1682–1771), Italian pathologist, considered the father of modern Anatomical Pathology

N

 * Heijiro Nakayama (1871–1956), Japanese pathologist.
 * Bernhard Naunyn (1839–1925), German pathologist.
 * Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (1834–1918), German pathologist.
 * Thomas Noguchi (born 1927), Japanese American forensic pathologist & medical examiner.

O

 * Shuji Ogino (born 1968), Japanese pathologist, epidemiologist, Harvard University professor, and pioneer in molecular pathological epidemiology.
 * Eugene Lindsay Opie (1873–1971), American pathologist and researcher on tuberculosis.
 * Johannes Orth (1847–1923), German pathologist.
 * William Osler (1849–1919), Canadian physician and pathologist, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

P

 * Richard Paltauf (1858–1924), Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
 * George Nicolas Papanicolaou (1883–1962), Greek-American cytopathologist & developer of the Papanicolaou cervical smear (see Pap smear)
 * Artur Pappenheim (1870–1916), German physician, developer of histochemical stains.
 * Lukáš Plank (born 1951), Slovak pathologist specializing in oncopathology and hematopathology.
 * Emil Ponfick (1844–1913), German pathologist.

R

 * Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835–1922), French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer of nodes of Ranvier.
 * Ronald Rapini (born 1948), US dermatopathologist; discoverer of sclerotic fibroma.
 * Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833–1910), German pathologist.
 * Benno Reinhardt (1819–1852), German physician, specialized in pathological anatomy.
 * Donald Rix (1931–2009), founder of a Canadian commercial pathology laboratory.
 * Carl von Rokitansky (1804–1878), Bohemian autopsy pathologist.
 * Juan Rosai (1940–2020), Italian-American surgical pathologist, discoverer of Rosai-Dorfman disease and the desmoplastic small round cell tumor.
 * Gustave Roussy (1874–1948), Swiss-French neuropathologist.

S

 * Christian Georg Schmorl (1861–1932), German pathologist.
 * Richard Scolyer, Australian pathologist
 * Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793–1864), German naturalist, and pathologist.
 * Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), English neuropathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1932
 * Richard Shope (1901–1966), American virologist and pathologist.
 * Keith Simpson (1907–1985), English forensic pathologist.
 * Lee J. Slavutin (born 1951), Australian pathologist.
 * Maud Slye (1879–1954), American experimental pathologist.
 * Theobald Smith (1859–1934), American pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist.
 * Kim Solez (born 1946), American pathologist, father of the Banff Classification of Transplantation Pathology.
 * Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877–1947), British pathologist.
 * Sophie Spitz (1910–1956), American surgical pathologist, eponymist of Spitz nevus
 * Edward Stafne (born 1894, date of death unknown), American oral pathologist (see Stafne defect).
 * Allen Starry (1890–1973), American pathologist (see Warthin–Starry stain).
 * Javier Arias Stella (1924–2020), Peruvian pathologist, describer of the Arias Stella reaction in the endometrium.
 * Stephen Sternberg (1920–2021), American pathologist, founding Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Surgical Pathology and editor of several 20th-century pathology textbooks.
 * Arthur Purdy Stout (1885–1967). American surgeon and pathologist, & one of the fathers of modern Surgical pathology.
 * Lotte Strauss (1913–1985), American pathologist (see Churg–Strauss syndrome).

T

 * Sunao Tawara (1873–1952), Japanese pathologist, discoverer of the Atrioventricular node.
 * Donald Teare (1911–1979), British pathologist.
 * Jacques-René Tenon (1724–1816), French surgeon and pathologist.
 * Ludwig Traube (1818–1876), German physician, co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany.
 * Václav Treitz (1819–1872), Czech pathologist.
 * Charles Emile Troisier (1844–1919), French doctor.

U

 * Johann Paul Uhle (1827–1861), German physician and pathologist.
 * Paul Gerson Unna (1850–1929), one of the founders of dermatopathology.
 * James Underwood (born 1942), British pathologist.

V

 * José Verocay (1876–1927), Czechoslovakian pathologist (see Verocay body).
 * Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), German physician, politician, & the father of "cellular" pathology.
 * Adolf Vossius (1855–1925), German pathologist (see Vossius ring).

W

 * Erik Waaler (1903–1997), Norwegian professor of medicine.
 * Hermann Julius Gustav Wächter (born 1878, date of death unknown), German physician (see Bracht-Wachter bodies).
 * Ernst Leberecht Wagner (1829–1888), German pathologist.
 * Heinrich von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921), German anatomist.
 * Robin Warren (born 1937), Australian gastrointestinal pathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2005.
 * Aldred Scott Warthin (1866–1931), American pathologist (see Warthin–Starry stain).
 * David Weatherall (1933–2013), British physician and researcher
 * Friedrich Wegener (1907–1990), German pathologist (see granulomatosis with polyangiitis).
 * Anton Weichselbaum (1845–1920), Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
 * Carl Weigert (1845–1904), developer of histochemical stains.
 * Adolf Weil (1848–1916), German physician and pathologist (see Weil's disease).
 * Ronald S. Weinstein (1938–2021), American pathologist, inventor, educator (see Telepathology).
 * Sharon Weiss (born 1945), American surgical pathologist, expert on soft tissue pathology (see Sarcoma).
 * William Henry Welch (1850–1934), American physician, pathologist, bacteriologist, medical school administrator, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
 * Max Westenhöfer, (1871–1957), 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 (1878–1976), American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1934.
 * James Homer Wright (1869–1928), surgical pathologist and developer of histochemical stains (see Wright stain).
 * Guy Alfred Wyon (1883–1924), 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 (1863–1930) Japanese pathologist, developed the concept of chemical carcinogenesis.

Z

 * Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn (1845–1904), German pathologist.
 * Friedrich Albert von Zenker (1825–1898), German pathologist and physician.
 * Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen (1829–1902), German pathologist and physician.