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.

A

 * Wayne Allard (born 1943) — U.S. Senator (1997–2009)
 * Maurice Allen (born 1937) — veterinary pathologist

B

 * Chris Back (born 1950) — Australian Senator (2009–2017)
 * Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang (1848–1932) — Danish veterinarian who discovered Brucella abortus
 * Denis Barberet (1714–1770) — French bibliographer and author
 * Harold William Bennetts (1898–1970) — Australian known for research on livestock and the toxic effects of native Australian plants
 * Natanael Berg (1879–1957) — Swedish composer
 * Reidar Birkeland (born 1928) — professor at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
 * Baxter Black (1945-2022) — U.S. radio commentator
 * Marie-Claude Bomsel (born 1946) — wildlife expert
 * Alfred Boquet (1879–1947) — French veterinarian, known for his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris
 * Claude Bourgelat (1712–1779) — founder of 18th-century French veterinary school
 * Anton Johnson Brandt (1893–1951) — professor of pathological anatomy at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
 * Chris Brown (born 1978) — known for the Australian television series Bondi Vet

C

 * Nelson R. Çabej (born 1939) — Albania evolutionary biologist and author
 * Charles J Coottes Campbell (born 1894 - 2001 British/ Commonwealth equine veterinarian
 * Louis J. Camuti (1893–1981) — first American cat veterinarian
 * Philibert Chabert (1737–1814) — French agronomist who wrote on early treatise on anthrax control
 * Craig Challen — Australian diver and caver
 * John A. Charlton (1907–1977) — Canadian politician
 * Auguste Chauveau (1827–1917) — French veterinarian, in whose honor the bacterium  Clostridium chauvoei is named
 * Matthew Clarke (born 1973) — former professional Australian rules footballer
 * Ken Coghill (born 1944) — former Australian politician
 * Robert Cook — British equine veterinarian
 * Robin Coombs (1921–2006) — British immunologist, co-discoverer of the Coombs test
 * Harry Cooper (born 1943) — Australian television personality
 * Miguel Cordero del Campillo (1925–2020) — Spanish parasitologist

D

 * Morné de la Rey (born 1970) — 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 (1874–1926) — British veterinary surgeon who was the first lecturer in veterinary bacteriology at the University of Sydney
 * Peter C. Doherty (born 1940) — Australian veterinary surgeon and researcher joint recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Mick Doyle (1941–2004) — Irish rugby player
 * Petrus Johann du Toit (1888–1967) — South African veterinarian
 * John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921) — Scottish inventor of the tyre

E

 * Henrik Edland (1905–1984) — professor of anatomy at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
 * John Ensign (born 1958) — U.S. Senator (2001–2011)

F

 * Martin J. Fettman (born 1956) — U.S. astronaut and veterinary pathologist
 * Kevin Fitzgerald (born 1951) — American television documentary veterinarian
 * Bruce Fogle (born 1944) — Canadian veterinarian
 * Birger Furugård (1887–1961) — Swedish politician

G

 * Doug Galt — former Canadian politician
 * Pierre-Victor Galtier (1846–1908) — French veterinarian, notable for his research into rabies.
 * Hugh Gordon (1909–2002) — Australian parasitologist
 * John Russell Greig (1889–1963) — Scottish veterinarian, notable for his research into milk fever.
 * Camille Guérin (1872–1961) — developed a vaccine for tuberculosis

H

 * James Hallen (1829–1901) — British veterinarian who served as General Superintendent of Horse Breeding in India
 * Greg J. Harrison — avian veterinarian
 * Susanne Hart (1927– 2010) — South African environmentalist
 * Antonie Marinus Harthoorn (1923–2012) — conservationist who worked in Africa
 * Herbert Haupt (born 1947) — Austrian politician
 * James Herriot (1916–1995) — pen name of James Alfred Wight, author of books about animals
 * Vanessa M. Hirsch — Canadian-American veterinary pathologist and virologist
 * Thomas William Hogarth (1901–1999) — Scottish-Australian veterinarian, writer on dogs
 * John Holt (1931–2013) — Australian veterinarian and sports shooter
 * William Hunting (1846–1913) — founder of The Veterinary Record

J

 * Dawda Jawara (1924–2019) — first president of Gambia
 * Joan O. Joshua (1912–1993)

L

 * Amy K. LeBlanc — U.S. veterinary oncologist
 * Richard M. Linnehan (born 1957) — U.S. astronaut
 * Buster Lloyd-Jones (1914–1980) — British veterinary surgeon

M

 * Svend Lomholt (1888–1949) — Danish veterinarian
 * Zoltán Magyar (born 1953) — 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 (born 1937) — Chief Veterinary Officer of the United Kingdom (1988–1997)
 * Veranus Alva Moore (1859–1931) — Dean of Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (1908–1929)
 * Suzanne Morrow (1930–2006) — Canadian figure skater who took the Official's Oath at the 1988 Winter Olympics

N

 * Denis Napthine (born 1952) — Australian politician
 * Rich Nye (born 1944) — American professional baseball pitcher turned exotic animal/avian veterinarian

O

 * Peter Ostrum (born 1957) — child actor who was Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

P

 * Frederick Douglass Patterson (1901–1988) — recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987, the highest civilian honor in the U.S.
 * Sonny Perdue (born 1946) — U.S. politician, former Governor of Georgia
 * Brian Perry (born 1946) — epidemiologist
 * Walter Plowright (1923–2010) — English veterinary scientist who worked to eradicate rinderpest

R

 * Nicky Rackard (1922–1976) — Irish hurler
 * Carl Gottlob Rafn (1769–1808) — Danish multi-disciplinary scientist
 * Robert L. Rooks — American veterinarian
 * John Gunion Rutherford (1857–1923) — Canadian politician

S

 * Suzanne Saueressig (1924–2013) — first practicing female veterinarian in Missouri
 * Elmo Shropshire (born 1936) — best known as the singer of the novelty Christmas song "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"
 * Erzsébet Simonyi (1915–1993) — first woman to earn a veterinary degree in Hungary and founder of the Veterinary Vaccine Control Institute.
 * Brian Sinclair (1915–1988) — best known for his association with James Alfred Wight who fictionalized him as Tristan Farnon
 * Donald Sinclair (1911-1995) - best known as partner to James Alfred Wight who fictionalized him as Sigfried Farnon
 * Danielle Spencer (born 1965) — actor
 * Harry Spira — Australian pioneer in dog breeding technologies
 * Leonid Stadnyk (1970–2014) — Ukrainian veterinarian renowned for his height
 * Harry Steele-Bodger (1896–1952) — British veterinarian
 * Michael G. Strain (1959–) — American veterinarian who is the incumbent Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner

T

 * Arnold Theiler (1867–1936) — described the horse disease which became known as Theiler's disease
 * James Thomson (born 1958) — American developmental biologist who derived the first human embryonic stem cell line in 1998
 * Simon Fraser Tolmie (1867–1937) — Canadian politician
 * Debbye Turner (born 1965) — Miss America 1990, resident veterinarian for CBS' The Early Show

V

 * Erik Viborg (1759–1822) — Danish veterinarian and botanist

W

 * Hugh Wirth (1939–2018) — Australian animal welfare advocate with RSPCA Australia, radio broadcaster

Y

 * Sophia Yin (1966–2014) — American animal behaviorist and pioneer of positive reinforcement training for pets.

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