List of Harvard Medical School alumni

Harvard Medical School is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts.

Academia

Founders

Lewis Hackett, 1913, founder of the School of Malariology in Nettuno, Italy and first editor of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Nathan Smith, 1811, co-founded Dartmouth Medical School, the University of Vermont College of Medicine, the Medical School of Maine, and the Yale School of Medicine

Chancellors and university presidents

Aram Chobanian, president of Boston University
John Call Dalton, president of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
William Henry Danforth, chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
David W. Fraser, president of Swarthmore College
Paula Johnson, 1985, president of Wellesley College
Nancy Ip, 1983, president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jim Yong Kim, 1991, president of Dartmouth College and president of the World Bank
Anthony Monaco, 1987, 13th president of Tufts University
Joseph E. Nyre, president of Seton Hall University and Iona College
Chase N. Peterson, president of the University of Utah
Calvin Plimpton, president of Amherst College and American University of Beirut
Daniel K. Podolsky, 1978, president of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Valerie Montgomery Rice, 1987, president and dean of Morehouse School of Medicine
Judith A. Salerno, 1985, president of the New York Academy of Medicine
Jay P. Sanford, president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Samuel L. Stanley, 1980, president of Stony Brook University
M. Roy Wilson, 1980, president of Wayne State University

Provost and vice-chancellor

Ezekiel Emanuel, 1988, vice provost for global Initiatives and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania
Harvey V. Fineberg, 1971, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and provost of Harvard University
Melissa L. Gilliam, provost of Ohio State University and the incoming president of Boston University
Gerald T. Keusch, 1963, associate provost for global health at Boston University Medical Campus
Daniel H. Lowenstein, 1983, executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, San Francisco
Alexander Margulis, 1950, associate chancellor and chairman of radiology at University of California, San Francisco and professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College
John Long Wilson, 1939, administrator at the American University of Beirut and acting vice president and dean of the Stanford University School of Medical

Deans

James B. Aguayo-Martel, associate dean of graduate medical education in California Northstate University College of Medicine, chair of surgery at the Mercy San Juan Medical Center, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School and Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute
Nancy Andrews, 1987, dean of the Duke University School of Medicine and biologist and physician noted for her research on iron homeostasis
R. Palmer Beasley, 1962, dean of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health
Francis Gilman Blake, 1913, immunologist and dean of the Yale University School of Medicine
Henry Pickering Bowditch, 1868, dean of the Harvard Medical School
Steven J. Burakoff, dean for cancer Innovation and chief of pediatric oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine and professor of cancer medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center
Martin D. Burke, 2005, associate dean of research in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine and professor for chemical innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
George Q. Daley, 1991, dean of the Faculty of Medicine and professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School
Leo M. Davidoff, associate dean and chairman of the departments of surgery and neurological surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Benjamin L. Ebert, 1999, chair of medical oncology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
Daniel Federman, 1953, endocrinologist and dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School
Henri Ford, 1984, dean of the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami and chief of surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Phyllis Gardner, 1976, dean of education and professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine
Richard Gorlin, 1948, dean for clinical affairs and chair of the Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Howard Hiatt, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health
Edward M. Hundert, 1984, dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School
Anya Hurlbert, 1990, professor of visual neuroscience and dean of advancement at Newcastle University
J. B. S. Jackson, 1829, dean of Harvard Medical School and first curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum
Ashish Jha, 1997, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator and dean of the Brown University School of Public Health
Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at University of Texas at Austin
Rainu Kaushal, senior associate dean of clinical research and chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine
Mark G. Lebwohl, 1978, Chairman Emeritus of the department of dermatology and the dean for clinical therapeutics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Seeley G. Mudd, 1924, professor and dean at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Richard S. Ross, 1947 dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Mark Schuster, 1987, dean and Founding CEO of the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Nathan R. Selden, 1993, dean of the School of Medicine and executive vice president, Oregon Health & Science University
Lewis Thomas, dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, essayist, poet, and winner of the National Book Awards in two categories
Carl F. Nathan, 1972, dean of the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University and chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine
Thomas D. Pollard, 1968, professor of cell biology and molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University and dean of Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, 1979, physician; dean and professor at Charles R. Drew University College of Medicine
Carmen Puliafito, 1978, ophthalmologist and dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC
Dominick P. Purpura, dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Farrokh Saidi, 1954, dean of Medical School, Pahlavi University School of Medicine and Under-Secretary for Medical Education and Health Services of Iran
Alfred Sommer, 1967, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Lamar Soutter, dean of the University of Massachusetts Medical School
David Humphreys Storer, dean of the faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and naturalist
Isaac M. Taylor, dean of the Medical School of the University of North Carolina

Department chairs

Kamal Badr, professor of medicine and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the American University of Beirut
Ben Barres, 1990, chair of the Neurobiology Department at Stanford University School of Medicine
Earl P. Benditt, 1941, pathologist and chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington
Robert M. Berne, 1943, textbook author, journal editor, and chair and the founder of cardiovascular research at the University of Virginia
Azad Bonni, 1996, professor of neuroscience and chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis
Nancy J. Brown, 1981, chair and physician-in-chief of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Reinhard Busse, head of the Department of Healthcare Management at the Faculty of Economics and Management Technische Universität Berlin
Walter Bradford Cannon, 1900, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School who coined the term fight or flight response
Clark C Chen, 1997, professor and chair of the department of neurosurgery at University of Minnesota
Dennis Choi, 1978, chair of the department of neurology at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University as well as director of the Neurosciences Institute
David Glendenning Cogan, 1930, chair of Harvard Medical School's ophthalmology department and chief of neuro-ophthalmology at the NIH's National Eye Institute
Albert Coons, 1937, chair of the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology and Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School
John W. Crawford, professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry at the Chicago Medical School and of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Rutgers Medical School
Vincent Cryns, 1987, chair of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Jayanta Debnath, 1998, chair of the University of California, San Francisco department of pathology
Paul Farmer, 1990, chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Don W. Fawcett, 1938, pioneer of electron microscopy and chair of the Department of Anatomy at Cornell Medical School
Josef E. Fischer, professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, chair of the Department of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School
Stephen J. Galli, 1973, chair of its pathology department and as a professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine
William Francis Ganong Jr., chairman of the physiology department at the University of California, San Francisco
Sid Gilman, chair in research neurology at t Columbia University and chair and chief of service of neurology at the University of Michigan Medical School
Melvin J. Glimcher, chair in orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School
Julia Haller, professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Eve Higginbotham, 1979, chair of the ophthalmology department at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, 1994, chair of genetics and metabolism at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Renee Hsia, associate chair of health services research at the University of California, San Francisco
Charles A. Hufnagel, surgeon who invented the first artificial heart valve and chairman of the department of surgery at Georgetown University
Reshma Jagsi, chair in the department of radiation oncology at Emory University
T.R. Johns, clinical researcher on myasthenia gravis and founding chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Virginia
Samuel Katz, professor and chairman of pediatrics at Duke University
Dimitri Krainc, chairman of the Ken & Ruth Davee Department of Neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Gustaf Lindskog, 1928, chair of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, best known for having participated in the first pharmaceutical treatment of cancer
Irving London, founding chair of the department of medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
John E. Mack, 1955, head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who won the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Prince of Our Disorder on T.E. Lawrence
Robert McCarley, 1964, chair and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
John S. Meyer, chairman of Neurology at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Baylor College of Medicine
Mark Moss, professor and chair of anatomy and neurobiology at the Boston University School of Medicine
Stuart Mudd, 1920, head of the department of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School
John McLean Morris, 1940, chief of gynecology and professor at Yale-New Haven Medical Center and Yale School of Medicine
Christopher J. L. Murray, chair of Health Metrics Science at the University of Washington in Seattle and the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Kari Nadeau, 1995, chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health
Walter Nance, professor and chair of the department of human genetics of the Virginia Commonwealth University
Robert E. Olson, 1951, chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition University of Pittsburgh and chair of the Biochemistry Department at St. Louis University
Hildrus Poindexter, 1929, bacteriologist, professor and chair of the Department of Bacteriology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health at Howard University
Hiram Polk, professor and chairman of surgery at the University of Louisville
Bonnie Ramsey, 1976, chair in Cystic Fibrosis at the University of Washington School of Medicine
Frederic M. Richards, 1952, founder and chair of the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University
Oswald Hope Robertson, non-degreed, head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago who pioneered the idea of blood banks
Eli Robins, head of the psychiatric department at Washington University in St. Louis
Nadia Rosenthal, chair in Cardiovascular Science at Imperial College London ad founding director of the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
George E. Shambaugh Jr., 1928, chairman of the department of otolaryngology at Northwestern University
Arlene Sharpe, chair of the Department of Immunology at Harvard Medical School
Andrew E. Sloan, chair of neurosurgical oncology at Case Western Reserve University
Jerome T. Syverton, 1931, head of the department of microbiology at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine and the department of bacteriology at the University of Minnesota
Carl E. Taylor, founding chair of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Ernest Tyzzer, head of the Department of Comparative Pathology at Harvard Medical School
Elliot Vesell, founding chair of the Department of Pharmacology at Pennsylvania State University
Herbert W. Virgin, professor and chair of the Department of Pathology and Immunology at the Washington University School of Medicine
William T. Wickner, 1973, chair of the biochemistry department at Dartmouth Medical School and faculty at University of California, Los Angeles
Ira Wilson, 1987, professor and chair of health Services, policy and practice at the Brown University School of Public Health
Terri Young, 1986, chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Program directors

Larry J. Anderson, virologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and professor and co-director of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Division of the Emory University School of Medicine
Nikola Biller-Andorno, bioethicist and professor and director of the Institute of Biomedical Ethics of the University of Zurich
Ira Black, 1965, neuroscientist and stem cell researcher, first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School^[1]
David O. Carpenter, 1964, professor of environmental health sciences at the University at Albany, SUNY and director of its Institute for Health and the Environment
Rita Charon, 1978, founder and executive director of the Program in Narrative medicine at Columbia University
Eliza Lo Chin, 1993, assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the executive director of the American Medical Women's Association
Eric Chivian, 1968, founder and director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHGE) at Harvard Medical School
F. Curtis Dohan Jr., 1961, director of neuropathology at the University of Tennessee, College of Medicine
Elliott S. Fisher, 1981, health policy researcher and director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Ronald Heifetz, senior lecturer in public leadership and founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University
Steven Hyman, director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
James Kirklin, director of the Institute for Research in Surgical Outcomes and co-director of the comprehensive cardiovascular center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Brigid Leventhal, 1960, first director of the Pediatric Oncology Division at Johns Hopkins University
Barbara Joyce McNeil, 1966, founding director of the department of health care policy at Harvard Medical School
Gil Omenn, 1965, director of the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan
E. Converse Peirce II, 1943, professor and director of hyperbaric medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Thomas A. Rando, 1987, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research and a professor of Neurology and Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles
Howard Rasmussen, 1952, founder and director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics at the Medical College of Georgia
David Rutstein, 1934, professor and head of the department of preventive medicine at Harvard Medical School
Ram Sasisekharan, bioengineer, professor, and director of the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology
Carla J. Shatz, 1976, head of the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School
Daniel K. Sodickson, 2006, vice-chair for Research in the Department of Radiology at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine
Edmund Sonnenblick, 1958, inaugural director of the Cardiology Division at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Felicia Stewart, director and professor at the Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy at the University of California, San Francisco
Siobhan Wescott, Director of the Indians into Medicine program at the University of North Dakota

Professors

John R. Adler, 1980, neurosurgeon and professor of Stanford University School of Medicine^[2]
Joseph Alpert, cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center
Robert Amory, physician, professor at Harvard Medical School and Bowdoin College Medical School, and Massachusetts medical examiner
Harold Amos, microbiologist and professor at Harvard Medical School^[3]
James M. Anderson, 1983, professor at the Yale School of Medicine
Louise Aronson, 1992, geriatrician, writer, and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
Constantino Méndieta, 1998, surgeon, physician and professor at Harvard Medical School^[4]
Karen Ashe, 1982, professor at the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School
Kimball Atwood, assistant clinical professor at Tufts University School of Medicine
Joseph Charles Aub, endocrinologist and professor and chair of medicine at Harvard University
Jerry Avorn, 1974, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
Vadim Backman, professor of biomedical engineering at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University
Marshall A. Barber, physician who studied malaria, affiliated with the Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Kansas
Abraham Clifford Barger, 1943, professor of physiology at Harvard Medical School
Dan Barouch, 1999, professor of medicine and professor of immunology at Harvard Medical School
Robert C. Bast Jr., vice president for translational research at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, best known for the discovery of CA125
John Putnam Batchelder, professor of anatomy in Castleton State College, Vermont and professor of surgical anatomy in the Berkshire Medical Institution
Don Beaven, professor and researcher at the Christchurch School of Medicine
Jon Beckwith, microbiologist, geneticist, and professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School
Henry K. Beecher, 1932, pioneering anesthesiologist, medical ethicist, and investigator of the placebo effect at Harvard Medical School
Beryl Benacerraf, 1976, radiologist, professor at Harvard Medical School, and pioneer in the use of prenatal ultrasound to diagnose fetal abnormalities
Herbert Benson, 1961, cardiologist and founding president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute of Harvard Medical School
Sangeeta N. Bhatia, biological engineer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1841, professor of surgery at Harvard University
Brenda Bloodgood, neuroscientist and associate professor of neurobiology at the University of California, San Diego
Stephen A. Boppart, 2000, bioengineer and principal investigator at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John Templeton Bowen, 1884, professor of dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital
Jonathan Braun, professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine^[5]
George A. Bray, 1957, obesity researcher and professor emeritus with Louisiana State University
Steven Brem, neurosurgeon at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Jan Breslow, 1968, medical researcher who studies atherosclerosis and professor at Rockefeller University
George Emerson Brewer, 1885, professor of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
L.D. Britt, professor of surgery at the Eastern Virginia Medical School
Emery N. Brown, 1987, professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital
James Howard Brown, 1917, professor of bacteriology at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
Austin M. Brues, 1930, pioneer of radiation biology, senior biologist at the Metallurgical Laboratory, and professor at University of Chicago
John Buchanan, 1943, professor of biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew E. Budson, 1993, professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and chief of cognitive and behavioral research and chief of staff for education at the Veterans Affairs
Donald Burke 1971, an expert on infectious diseases of global concern and professor of health science and policy at the University of Pittsburgh
John F. Burke, researcher and professor of surgery at Harvard University
Laura M. Calvi, professor in endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Rochester
Malcolm Casadaban, 1976, associate professor of molecular genetics, cell, biology, and microbiology at the University of Chicago
Howard Y. Chang, professor of cancer genomics and genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine
Cornelia Channing, 1965, professor of physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who focused on endocrinology and fertility
Christopher Chen, 1977 and 1999, professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University
Sherry Chou, 2009, associate professor of neurology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Nicholas Christakis, socialogist and Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University
Gilbert Chu, 1980, professor of oncology and biochemistry at the Stanford Medical School
George Church, 1984, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and a professor of health sciences and technology at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alan D'Andrea, 1983, cancer researcher and professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School
Mayer B. Davidson, professor of medicine at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Bernard Davis, 1940, microbiologist at Harvard Medical School
Philip L. De Jager, professor of neurology at Columbia University
Arthur J. Deikman, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco
Mahlon DeLong, 1966, neurologist and professor at the Medical School of Emory University
John Holmes Dingle, founder and professor of the Department of Preventative Medicine at Western Reserve University
Allison J. Doupe, pioneer in avian neurobiology and professor of psychiatry and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco
John E. Dowling, research professor of neurosciences at Harvard University, known for his work in vision science
Rachel Dutton, 2010, microbiologist and assistant professor in the division of biological sciences at the University of California, San Diego
Thomas Dwight, 1867, professor of anatomy at Harvard Medical School and noted anatomist
Elazer R. Edelman, professor in medical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
David Eidelberg, 1981, professor of neurology and molecular medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine
David M. Eisenberg, alternative medicine researcher and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
Shekinah Elmore, assistant professor in the department of radiation oncology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Jean Fan, biomedical engineer who teaches at Johns Hopkins University
Ferric Fang, 1983, professor of Laboratory Medicine, pathology, and microbiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine
Jawad Fares, senior researcher at the Lebanese University Neuroscience Research Center
Douglas Farmer, 1942, professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Yale School of Medicine
Reginald Heber Fitz, 1868, physician known for his research on abdominal disorders and professor at Harvard University
Stephen Fleck, professor at the Yale University School of Medicine
Judah Folkman, professor of pediatric surgery and cell biology at Harvard Medical School in 1968
Alexander Forbes, 1910, electrophysiologist, neurophysiologist, and professor of physiology at Harvard Medical School
Esther E. Freeman, assistant professor of dermatology at the Harvard Medical School
John Farquhar Fulton, 1927, Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale University who specialized in primate neurophysiology and history of science
Joel Gelfand, dermatologist, epidemiologist, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Norman Geschwind, 1951, pioneering behavioral neurologist and professor of neurology at Harvard University
Mickey Goldberg, 1968, neuroscientist and professor at Columbia University
Catherine M. Gordon, professor of paediatric medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine
John Gorham, 1804, professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Harvard University
Hermes Grillo, 1947, thoracic surgeon and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School
Lester Grinspoon, psychiatrist and associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Roy Hamilton, 2001, professor of neurology, psychiatry, and physical medicine and rehabilitation at University of Pennsylvania
Pehr Harbury, biochemist and associate professor of biochemistry at Stanford University
Thaddeus William Harris, 1829, entomologist and librarian at Harvard University
Stephen L. Hauser, professor of the department of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco
Rebecca Heald, professor in the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Joseph Henderson, 1902, one of the leading biochemists of the early 20th century and faculty of Harvard Medical School
Judith Lewis Herman, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
David Himmelstein, distinguished professor of public health and health policy in the CUNY School of Public Health
William Augustus Hinton, 1912, first Black professor in the history of Harvard University
Edward Hitchcock Jr., 1853, professor of hygiene and Physical Education at Amherst College
Allan Hobson, 1959, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Myron Arms Hofer, 1858, professor in the department of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Worthington Hooker, 1829, professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Yale
Charles Franklin Hoover, physician and professor of medicine
Peter M. Howley, 1972, pathologist, virologist, and professor at Harvard Medical School
A. James Hudspeth, 1974, professor at Rockefeller University
Henry Hun, 1879, professor of Nervous Diseases at the Albany Medical College
Anna Huttenlocher, cell biologist, physician-scientist, faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lisa Iezzoni, 1984, professor at Harvard Medical School
Franz J. Ingelfinger, 1936, chief of gastroenterology at the Boston University School of Medicine and editor of The New England Journal of Medicine
Henry Barton Jacobs, 1887, associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University
Charles Janeway, 1969, immunologist, professor, and founding members of the section of immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine
Alfred Jaretzki III, 1944, professor of clinical surgery at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Mildred Fay Jefferson, 1951, professor of surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine
William Jencks, 1951, biochemist and professor at Brandeis University
Hershel Jick, 1956, professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine
Eric A. Johnson, microbiologist and professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kellie Ann Jurado, assistant professor of microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Arnold Martin Katz, 1956, professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and chief of cardiology at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Jay Katz, 1949, Yale Law School professor specializing in medical ethics
Julian Paul Keenan, professor of biology at Montclair State University
Lawrence Kilham, 1940, professor at Dartmouth Medical School credited as the discoverer of K virus
Elizabeth Klerman, 1990, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School
Samuel Kneeland, 1843, professor of zoology and physiology and corporate secretary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Kogan, 1982, concert pianist and professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical Center
Melvin Konner, 1985, professor of anthropology, neuroscience, and behavioral biology at Emory University
Ronald Krauss, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
Harlan Krumholz, 1985, cardiologist and professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine
Allison Kurian, professor of medicine and epidemiology and population health at Stanford University
Daniel Kuritzkes, head of the clinical infectious disease division and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
Cato T. Laurencin, University Professor of the University of Connecticut and founder of the field of regenerative engineering
Lucian Leape, 1959, professor at Harvard School of Public Health
Vivian Lee, executive fellow at Harvard Business School and senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School
Samuel A. Levine, 1914, cardiologist and clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
David C. Lewis, 1961, professor of medicine and community health at Brown University
Matthew H. Liang, 1969, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
Judy Lieberman, 1981, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
Michael Z. Lin, 2002, associate professor of neurobiology and bioengineering at Stanford University
David J. L. Luck, 1953, cell biologist and professor at Rockefeller University
Annie Luetkemeyer, 1999, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the University of California, San Francisco
Jeffrey Macklis, professor of life sciences at Harvard University and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School
Liza Makowski Hayes, professor at the University of Tennessee
George Kenneth Mallory, 1926, pathologist and professor at Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical School
Frank Burr Mallory, 1890, pathologist at the Boston City Hospital and professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School
Emanual Maverakis, 2003, immunologist and a professor at the University of California, Davis
Hugh McDevitt, 1955, immunologist and professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine
Michael T. McGuire, professor of psychiatry/biobehavioral sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles
Paul R. McHugh, 1956, professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Andrew W. Murray, professor of molecular genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor at Harvard University
Megan B. Murray, professor of global health in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jane Newburger, 1974, pediatrician who is a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
Louis Harry Newburgh, 1908, physician and medical educator at the University of Michigan
Sheila Nirenberg, neuroscientist and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College
Stuart Orkin, 1972, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
David C. Page, 1984, biologist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nigel Paneth, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics and pediatrics at Michigan State University
Willard Parker, 1830, professor at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons
Francis Weld Peabody, 1907, professor at Harvard Medical School
Maurice Pechet, 1948, professor and researcher at Harvard Medical School
Neil R. Powe, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kenneth Prager, 1968, professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center
Dale Purves, 1964, research professor in the department of psychology and brain sciences at Duke University
John Puskas, 1986, professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
James Jackson Putnam, 1876, formed the Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School
Mitchell T. Rabkin, 1955, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
Christian R. H. Raetz, 1973, professor of biochemistry at Duke University
Jayaraj Rajagopal, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
David Relman, 1982, microbiologist and professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine
Birdsey Renshaw, 1936, electrophysiologist and neuroscientist at Rockefeller University
Alexander H. Rice Jr., 1904, geographer and explorer noted for expeditions to the Amazon Basin, professor of geography at Harvard University
Alexander Rich, 1949, biologist, biophysicist, and professor of Biophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maurice Howe Richardson, 1877, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School
Paul Ridker, 1986, cardiovascular epidemiologist and professor of medicine at Harvard University and Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ellen Roche, biomedical engineer and Associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carolyn I. Rodriguez, associate professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University
Thomas Morgan Rotch, 1874, America's first full professor of pediatrics
Marc E. Rothenberg, 1990, professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
David Rubin, 1974, professor of psychology at Duke University
Emanuel Rubin, 1954, professor and chairman of pathology, anatomy and cell Biology at Jefferson Medical College
Gary Ruvkun, molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School
Edward Thomas Ryan, professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
Bernardo L. Sabatini, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School
Pardis Sabeti, 2006, professor in the Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University
David B. Sachar, gastroenterologist and professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
Wolfram Saenger, biochemist and protein crystallographer at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine of Harvard Medical School
Elizabeth Sattely, associate professor of chemical engineering in the Department of Chemical engineering at Stanford University
Herbert Scheinberg, 1943, faculty member at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Steven A. Schroeder, 1964, Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care at the University of California, San Francisco
Theodore H. Schwartz, 1990, professor of neurosurgery, otolaryngology and neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College
John J. Shea Jr., professor in the ear, nose, and throat departments of the University of Tennessee, the University of Mississippi, the University of North Carolina and Tulane University
Jay Shendure, 2005 and 2007, professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine
Gordon M. Shepherd, professor of neuroscience emeritus at the Yale School of Medicine
Daniel J. Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine
Jordan Smoller, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health
Reisa Sperling, professor in neurology at Harvard Medical School
Wesley W. Spink, 1932, professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School
Timothy A. Springer, 1976, professor at Harvard Medical School
David States, 1983, professor of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan
John D. States, professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Rochester
Lincoln Stein, 1989, professor in bioinformatics and computational biology at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Lubert Stryer, professor of Cell Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine
Collin M. Stultz, 1997, professor in medical engineering and science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jason Swedlow, professor of quantitative cell biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Susan C. Taylor, 1983, professor in the department of dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Guillermo J. Tearney, 1998, professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School
Abby Howe Turner, non-degreed, professor of physiology and zoology who founded the department of physiology at Mount Holyoke College
Rudolph E. Tanzi, 1990, professor of Neurology at Harvard University
Luk Van Parijs, 1997, associate professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joseph Volpe, professor of neurology Harvard Medical School
Howard Waitzkin, 1972, professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Mexico
Robert Wallace Wilkins, 1933, faculty member and researcher at Boston University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
B. Timothy Walsh, professor of pediatric psychopharmacology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University
Carl W. Walter, 1932, professor at Harvard Medical School and a pioneer in the transfusion and storage of blood^[6]
John Ware, 1816, professor at Harvard College's Medical Department
Benjamin Warf, 1984, professor of neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School
John Warren, professor of anatomy at Harvard University
John Collins Warren Jr., 1866, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School
Kenneth S. Warren, 1955, professor at Case Western Reserve University
Amy Wax, 1981, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School^[7]
Sherman Weissman, Sterling Professor of Genetics at the Yale School of Medicine
Nanette Wenger, 1954, clinical cardiologist and professor emerita at Emory University School of Medicine
James Clarke White, dermatologist, professor at Harvard Medical School, and first professor of dermatology in the United States
James Clarke White, 1923, neurosurgeon, specialist in the surgical control of pain, and professor at Harvard Medical School
Paul Dudley White, 1911, cardiologist and professor at Harvard Medical School
John Clare Whitehorn, 1921, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Janey L. Wiggs, professor of ophthalmology and vice chair for clinical research in ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School
Burt Green Wilder, 1866, professor of neurology and vertebrate zoölogy at Cornell University
Catherine Wilfert, 1958, professor at Duke University School of Medicine
Carroll Williams, professor of biology at Harvard University
Ellen Wright Clayton, professor of law and medicine and Vanderbilt University
Ting Wu, 1984, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School
F. Eugene Yates, 1950, physiologist and a professor of medicine and medical engineering at University of California Los Angeles
King-Wai Yau, 1975, professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Junying Yuan, 1989, professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School
Paul Zamecnik, 1936, professor of oncologic medicine at Harvard Medical School
Steven Zeisel, 1975, professor in nutrition and pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kang Zhang, 1995, professor of medicine at Macau University of Science and Technology

Art

Andrea Ackerman, artist, theorist, and writer best known for her New Media artworks and taught 3D computer modeling (Maya) at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn
Abraham Aronow, photographer best known for his monochrome portraits of prominent photographers
William Sturgis Bigelow, 1874, prominent collector of Japanese art
Eliot Porter, photographer best known for his color photographs of nature
John Witt Randall, 1811, noted art collector ad consulting zoologist to the United States Exploring Expedition

Aviation and space

Jonny Kim, 2016, naval aviator and NASA astronaut
William Randolph Lovelace II, 1934, flight surgeon with the Army Medical Corps Reserve and chairman of the NASA Special Advisory Committee on Life Sciences
Arthur J. Moss, 1957, Navy physician involved in the Holter monitoring and interpretations of the astronaut monkey, Miss Baker, and the first human astronaut
Robert Satcher, 1994, NASA astronaut

Business

Isaac Adams Jr., inventor of the first commercially viable nickel plating process
David Altshuler, executive vice president of Global Research and Chief Scientific Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
David Benaron, digital health entrepreneur
David Berry, co-founder of Valo Health, Seres Therapeutics, Indigo Agriculture, and contributed to the early development of Moderna
Paul M. Bingham, 1980, molecular biologist and vice president for Research at Rafael Pharmaceuticals
Daniel DiLorenzo, entrepreneur and founder of NeuroVista Corporation
Preston Estep, chief scientific officer and co-founder of Veritas Genetics
John Freund, satirist, author, and co-founder of Intuitive Surgical and the co-founder and former CEO of Arixa Pharmaceuticals
Richard Fuisz, physician, inventor, and entrepreneur
Donald Ganem, global head of infectious disease research at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Levi Garraway, senior vice president of global oncology at Eli Lilly and Company and chief medical officer of Roche Holding AG
Roozbeh Ghaffari, 2008, CEO and co-founder of Epicore Biosystems
Sekar Kathiresan, 1997, chief executive officer and co-founder of Verve Therapeutics
Vikram Sheel Kumar, co-founder of Dimagi software company
Andrew Le, co-founder of Buoy Health
Dean Jewett Locke, non-degreed, businessman, rancher, and founder of Lockeford, California
Randell Mills, scientist and founder of Brilliant Light Power
Carl Marci, chief psychiatrist and managing director at OM1, a venture-backed health data company using artificial intelligence
Vasant Narasimhan, chief executive officer of Novartis
Jacqueline Nwando Olayiwola, senior vice president and chief health equity officer of Humana
Anjana Rao, molecular biologist and co-founder of the company Calcimedica
Edward Scolnick, 1965, head of research at Merck Research Laboratories
Jonathan Stamler, founder of the Harrington Project and multiple biotechnology companies
Samuel Strober, 1966, co-founder of a biotechnology company, Dendreon, that developed the first FDA approved cancer vaccination
Daniel Voytas, chief scientific officer of Calyxt, an agricultural biotechnology company
Christoph Westphal, founding CEO of Momenta Pharmaceuticals
Richard Wurtman,1960, researcher and co-founded Interneuron Pharmaceuticals and held the patent for dexfenfluramine

Crime

Charles Epstein, 1959, victim of a mail bomb attack by the Unabomber
I. Kathleen Hagen, 1973, murder suspect
Thomas Sewall, 1812, physician who gained notoriety for being convicted of body snatching
John White Webster, 1815, convicted and executed in the Parkman–Webster murder case

Dentistry

Nathan Cooley Keep, 1827, founding dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Winston Patrick Kuo, assistant professor in the developmental biology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Ira B. Lamster, 1990, dean and professor of dentistry at the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine
William T. G. Morton, non-degreed, dentist and physician who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic
Sheila M. Riggs, chair of the Department of Primary Dental Care at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry
William Herbert Rollins, dentist who was a pioneer in radiation protection
Derek Steinbacher, chief of the Dental Department and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Yale New Haven Health

Education

Augustus Burbank, 1847, president of North Yarmouth Academy
Edward Waldo Emerson, 1874, instructor art anatomy at the School of the of Fine Arts and superintendent of schools
John Dix Fisher, 1825, founder of Perkins School for the Blind and doctor credited with introducing the stethoscope into the United States
Samuel Gridley Howe, 1824, first director of the Perkins School for the Blind
George Adams Leland, 1878, pedagogue, who assisted in the development of the physical education curriculum in Meiji period Japanese education
Diocletian Lewis, non-degreed, physical culture advocate and founder of the Normal Institute for Physical Education (also known as Boston Normal Physical Training School)
Robert Traill Spence Lowell, non-degreed, Episcopal clergyman, missionary, inspector of schools for Bermuda, and headmaster of St. Mark's School^[8]

Entertainment

Neal Baer, 1996, television writer and producer known for Designated Survivor, ER, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Uché Blackstock, 2005 emergency physician and a Yahoo! News medical contributor
Joe Brewster, 1978, filmmaker
Henry Strong Durand, 1888, co-composer of "Bright College Years", the Yale University alma mater
David Foster, 1995, television writer, producer, and medical doctor best known as a writer/producer on the medical drama series House
Shep Ginandes, 1951, folk singer and song collector
Dean Hamer, geneticist, author, and documentary filmmaker
Allan Hamilton,, physician and medical consultant to ABC's medical drama Grey's Anatomy
Robert Huizenga, author, team physician for the Los Angeles Raiders, and contributor on multiple reality television shows
Joseph Stevens Jones, 1843, playwright and actor
Charles Krauthammer, 1975, political columnist.who won the Pulitzer Prize for his work in The Washington Post
Pam Ling, cast member on The Real World: San Francisco^[9]
Mehret Mandefro, film/television producer, writer, physician and anthropologist
George Howard Monks, 1880, invented the board game Halma
John P. Ordway, 1859, music publisher and composer
Vanessa Parise, non-degreed, film and television director, producer, and writer
Maurice W. Parker Sr., non-degreed, vocal coach
Alan Rich, music critic
Howard Rubenstein, 1957, playwright
Valerie Weiss, filmmaker and producer
Samuel Wong, orchestra conductor

Government

State and county officials

Samuel Warren Abbott, 1862, surgeon who helped inaugurate the first medical examiner system in Massachusetts and became the first secretary of Massachusetts' first state board of health
David Axelrod, 1960, Health Commissioner for the State of New York
JudyAnn Bigby, secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services of Massachusetts and director of the Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence in Women's Health
Oni Blackstock, HIV physician, researcher, and assistant commissioner for the Bureau of HIV for the New York City Department of Health
Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, 1832, founder and chair of the Massachusetts State Board of Health and prominent Christian abolitionist
William A. Brooks, 1891, chief surgeon Massachusetts State Guard, acting surgeon general of Massachusetts, and a medical director for the United States Shipping Board
Shereef Elnahal, United States Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health and commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health
Jonathan Fielding, 1969,director and health officer of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Joseph Ladapo, 2008, Surgeon General of Florida
Woody Myers, Indiana state health commissioner and d New York City health commissioner^[10]
Paul F. O'Rourke, 1948, founding member of Operation USA and its first board chair and first Director of the California State Office of Economic Opportunity
Joshua Sharfstein, 1996, secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and principal deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Harry C. Solomon, 1914, Massachusetts State Commissioner of Mental Health and Superintendent of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital
Leonard White, physician and Health Officers in Massachusetts involved with the earliest study of mosquitoes and malaria

Literature and journalism

Authors

Rafael Campo, poet
Ethan Canin, 1991, author and member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop
Michael Crichton, 1969, novelist and filmmaker
Srully Blotnick, 1994, author and journalist
Amy Dockser Marcus, staff reporter for the New York bureau of The Wall Street Journal and 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
David Ehrenfeld, 1963, author and twentieth-century conservation biologist
Alice Weaver Flaherty, author of textbooks and popular nonfiction
Justin A. Frank, author and contributor to The Huffington Post
John Freund, satirist, author, and co-founder of Intuitive Surgical
Arthur Guyton, physiologist known for his Textbook of Medical Physiology
Steve Hoffmann, author
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1836, poet acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day
Perri Klass, 1986, writer and professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University
Robert Means Lawrence, 1873, writer and physician
Bruce Y. Lee, senior contributor for Forbes
John E. Mack, 1955, head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who won the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Prince of Our Disorder
Orison Swett Marden, 1881, inspirational author
Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, author, and biologist
David G. Nathan, pediatrician, hematologist, and author of Nathan and Oski's Hematology of Infancy and Childhood, a standard reference in pediatrics in its 7th edition
Justin Richardson, award-winning children's book author
Wyman Richardson, author and naturalist
Elisabeth Rosenthal, 1986, The New York Times reporter who focused on health and environment matters
Wilfredo Santa-Gómez, author of books on self-help, short stories, and poetry
Samuel Shem, author and dramatist
Lewis Thomas, essayist, poet, and winner of the National Book Awards in two categories and dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine
Mark Vonnegut, 1979, author, pediatrician, and son of writer Kurt Vonnegut
Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins, 1974, biographer
Victor C. Strasburger, pediatrician and author
Ken Walker, 1950, syndicated medical writer
Charles Woodward Stearns, non-degreed, non-fiction writer
Oneeka Williams, children's book author

Editors

Walter Prentice Bowers, first editor and managing editor of The New England Journal of Medicine
Victoria Chan-Palay, 1975, neuroscientist, founder of journal Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, and White House Fellow and an assistant to Secretary of Defense Harold Brown
Frank Spooner Churchill, pediatrician and chief editor of the American Journal of Diseases of Children
William Dameshek, hematologist and founder of Blood, the prime core clinical journal of hematology
Jeffrey M. Drazen, 1972, editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine
Joseph Garland, editor of The New England Journal of Medicine
Robert Goldwyn, chief of Plastic Surgery at the Beth Israel Hospital and editor-in-chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery^[11]
Beth Karlan, editor-in-chief of the medical journals Gynecologic Oncology and Gynecologic Oncology Reports
Harold C. Sox, editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, associate editor of Scientific America Medicine, and consulting associate editor of The American Journal of Medicine
Hermon F. Titus, 1890, factional leader of the Socialist Party of Washington and editor of The Socialist
Jack Yang, editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design

Medicine

Cardiology

Redmond Burke, 1984, founder of The Congenital Heart Institute at Miami Children's Hospital
James Rippe, 1979, cardiologist, founder and director of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute (now Rippe Health)
John Parsons Shillingford, 1943, physician and cardiologist, known as a pioneer of the introduction of coronary care units in the United Kingdom
Frederick Douglass Stubbs, 1931, thoracic surgeon who received national acclaim for his advancements the surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis
Louis Wolff, 1922, cardiologist and chief of the electrocardiographic laboratory at Beth Israel Hospital
Paul Zoll, 1936, cardiologist and one of the pioneers in the development of the artificial cardiac pacemaker and cardiac defibrillator

Endocrinology

Fuller Albright, endocrinologist
Robert C. Kolodny, writer and head of the endocrine research section of the Masters and Johnson Institute
Christos Socrates Mantzoros, chief of endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at the VA Boston Healthcare System and founding director of human nutrition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Alexander Marble, 1927, diabetologist at the Joslin Diabetes Center

Gastroenterology

David Hershel Alpers, 1960, gastroenterologist
Ronald A. Malt, 1955, chief of gastroenterological surgery and the surgical chief of the Liver, Biliary and Pancreas Center at Massachusetts General Hospital

Genetics

William French Anderson, 1963, geneticist and molecular biologist known as the "father of gene therapy"
Paul Billings, 1979, geneticist
Joel Hirschhorn, human geneticist, pediatrician, and endocrinologist
D. Holmes Morton, physician specializing in genetic disorders of Old Order Amish and Mennonite children who established the Clinic for Special Children

Gynecology

James Read Chadwick, 1871, gynecologist and medical librarian remembered for describing the Chadwick sign of early pregnancy
Nawal M. Nour, obstetrician and gynecologist who directs the Ambulatory Obstetrics Practice at the Brigham and Women's Hospital
John Rock, 1918, founder of the Rock Reproductive Study Center at the Free Hospital for Women known for the development of the first birth control pill

Hematology

William Bosworth Castle, hematologist
Thomas P. Stossel, hematologist, inventor,and medical researcher that discovered gelsolin and invented the BioAegis technology

Hospital administration

R. Rox Anderson, dermatologist and director of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital William Barnes, 1886, entomologist and a founder and president of Decatur Memorial Hospital
Edward J. Benz Jr., 1973, president of Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
George Crile Jr., 1933, head of the Cleveland Clinic Department of General Surgery who was influential in breast cancer treatment
Nancy E. Davidson, 1979, executive director and president of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, senior vice president, director of clinical oncology at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Allan S. Detsky, 1978, physician-in-chief at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Orrin Devinsky, 1982, director of the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and the Saint Barnabas Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Betty Diamond, 1973, director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Northwell Health's Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Harold F. Dvorak, pathologist and founding Director of the Center for Vascular Biology Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Mark Fishman, 1976, chief of cardiology and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital
Irwin Freedberg, 1956, professor and chairman of the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology at the New York University Medical Center
Charles S. Fuchs, director of the Yale Cancer Center
George W. Galvin, founder of the Boston Emergency and General Hospital, the first emergency hospital in the United States
Monica Gandhi, director of the UCSF Medical Center Gladstone Center for AIDS Research and the medical director of the San Francisco General Hospital HIV Clinic
Laurie Glimcher, 1976, president and CEO, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
Edward H. Hill, 1867, founder of Central Maine Medical Center^[12]
Kurt Julius Isselbacher, 1950, director emeritus of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Sachin H. Jain, 2008, CEO of CareMore Health System
Elliott P. Joslin, first medical doctor in the United States to specialize in diabetes and founder of the Joslin Diabetes Center
Mitchell H. Katz, president and CEO of New York City Health and Hospitals
Frank Lahey, 1904, physician who founded the Lahey Clinic
Philip J. Landrigan, 1967, director of the Children's Environmental Health Center and the chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center
Aristides Leão, 1943, neurophysiologist and director of the Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
John Mendelsohn, 1963, president of the MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ira S. Nash, 1984, senior vice president for physician leadership development at Northwell Health
Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen, 1914, chief of orthopaedic service at Massachusetts General Hospital
Tom Douglas Spies, 1927, director of Nutrition Clinic at the Hillman Hospital
Frederick Winsor, head of the Massachusetts State Hospital
Rufus Wyman, 1799, superintendent of the Asylum for the Insane and the McLean Asylum

Immunology

Fritz Bach, 1960, pioneer in the field of transplant immunology
Zanvil A. Cohn, 1953. cell biologist and immunologist

Infectious disease

Lawrence Eron, 1971, infectious diseases specialist
David Ho, infectious disease physician
Henry Austin Martin, 1845, physician known for introducing the method of production and use of smallpox vaccine lymph from calves
Thomas C. Peebles, physician who was the first to isolate the measles virus
Sallie Permar, 2004, pediatrician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center

Medical research

George Cotzias, helped develop the L-Dopa treatment for Parkinson's disease and winner of the 1969 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research
Hallowell Davis, 1922, director of research at the Central Institute for the Deaf and contributor to the invention of the electroencephalograph^[13]
Maxwell Finland, 1926, medical researcher who led seminal research of antibiotic treatment of pneumonia
Robert Edward Gross, 1931, medical researcher in pediatric heart surgery at Boston Children's Hospital
Kathryn T. Hall, 1996, Molecular Biologist specializing in placebo research
William Hammon, 1936, physician and researcher, best known for his work on poliomyelitis
Saul Hertz, 1929, the father of the field of theranostics, noted for targeted cancer therapies
David Hurwitz, 1931, researcher in diabetes mellitus, considered "the father of the community hospital teaching concept"
M. Charles Liberman, 1976, director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
John P. Merrill, 1942, medical researcher who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant; the"father of nephrology"
Vamsi Mootha, physician-scientist and computational biologist, investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jean E. Schaffer, senior investigator at the Joslin Diabetes Center

Neurology

Carmela Abraham, neuroscientist who focuses on the study of Alzheimer's disease
Robert B. Aird, educator, neurologist and epileptologist
Bronson Crothers, 1909, pediatric neurologist at the Children's Hospital in Boston and a professor at Harvard Medical School
Merit Cudkowicz, director of the ALS clinic, director of the Neurological Clinical Research Institute, and chair of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital
Peter Huttenlocher, 1957, pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist who discovered how the brain develops in children
Keith Johnson, neurologist and radiologist working at Massachusetts General Hospital
Barry Jordan, 1981, neurologist and the assistant medical director at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital
William Gordon Lennox, neurologist and epileptologist who was a pioneer in the use of electroencephalography
Tracy Putnam, 1920, co-discoverer of Dilantin for controlling epilepsy and director of the New York Neurological Institute
Thomas Schwarz, neuroscientist and molecular biology researcher at Boston Children's Hospital
Harold Wolff, professor of medicine and chief neurologist at New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Center

Oncology

Harry Bisel, oncologist and one of the founding members of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
James D. Griffin, 1974, chair of medical oncology at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, and director of medical oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Matthew Kulke,chief of hematology/oncology and co-director of the Boston Medical Center Cancer Center
Nancy Lin, an oncologist who works at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
Kenneth Offit, chair in inherited cancer genomics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Pathology

J. Keith Joung, pathologist and molecular biologist who holds the chair in Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital
Cornelius P. Rhoads, 1924, pathologist, oncologist, and hospital administrator who was involved in a racist scandal
Shields Warren, 1923, pathologist at New England Deaconess Hospital (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)
Stephen Waxman, pathologist-in-chief at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Simeon Burt Wolbach, 1903, pathologist and researcher who elucidated the infection vectors for Rocky Mountain spotted fever and epidemic typhus

Pediatrics

Allan Macy Butler, 1926, a pioneer in health service and chief of the Children's Medical Services at Massachusetts General Hospital
Eric Chien-Wei Liao, 2002, founding director of the Center for Craniofacial Innovation at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Louis Diamond, 1927, pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology"
Sidney Farber, 1927, pediatric pathologist who is regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy
Rustin McIntosh, 1918, chief of pediatrics at the Babies Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital

Physician

Cecil H. Coggins, 1958, physician who specialized in nephrology and editor of the Annual Review of Medicine
Ephraim Cutter, 1856, physician and pioneer of laryngology and discovered the tuberculosis cattle test
Yolanda George-David, Nigerian medical doctor, radio host, and humanitarian
Vincent Dole, physician developed the use of methadone to treat heroin addiction
Daniel Laing Jr., non-degreed, one of the first African-American physicians^[14]
Seymour London, 1940, physician and inventor who created the first automatic blood pressure monitor
Isaac H. Snowden, non-degreed, African-American physician in Liberia
Horatio Storer, 1853, physician and the leader of the Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion
Charles Eliot Ware, 1837, prominent Boston physician
Andrew Weil, 1968, proponent of alternative medicine and integrative medicine
Robert O. Wilson, 1929, physician at Drum Tower Hospital of University of Nanking
George Barker Windship, physician who introduced weight training in the United States
Whitfield Winsey, 1871, the first African American doctor admitted to the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland
Alfred Worcester, 1883, general practitioner known for pioneering work in the treatment of appendicitis and the use of Caesarean section
Louis T. Wright, 1915 researcher, practitioner, first black Fellow of the American College of Surgeons^[15]
Morrill Wyman, 1937, physician who studied hayfiever

Radiology

Walter J. Dodd, non-degreed, one of the first radiologists in the United States and an early innovator in the use of X-rays
Stanley Boyd Eaton, 1964, radiologist and one of the originators of the concept of Paleolithic nutrition
Daniel Kopans, 1972, radiologist specializing in mammography and founder of the Breast Imaging Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital

Surgery

Fred H. Albee, surgeon who invented bone grafting and other advances in orthopedic surgery
Dudley Peter Allen, 1879, surgeon, teacher, and writer
Kathryn Anderson, pediatric surgeon and first woman president of the American Pediatric Surgical Association
Alfred Bennison Atherton, 1866, surgeon, gynaecologist, and obstetrician
N. Scott Adzick, surgeon-in-chief at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Adam Brook, thoracic surgeon at St. Joseph's Medical Center
Bradford Cannon, chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital
Richard Cattell, pioneering biliary duct reconstructive surgeon
Edward Delos Churchill, 1920, thoracic surgery and remembered for describing the Churchill-Cope reflex
Ernest Amory Codman, 1895, surgeon who made contributions to anaesthesiology, oncology, and the study of medical outcomes
William Coley, 1888, bone surgeon and cancer researcher best known as the "father of cancer immunotherapy
Joel D. Cooper, 1964, thoracic surgeon, known for having completed the first successful lung transplant
Oliver Cope, 1928, surgeon known for his work in parathyroid surgery, burns treatment and breast cancer treatment
Harvey Cushing, 1895, the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease
Forest Dewey Dodrill, 1930, performed the first successful open heart surgery using a mechanical pump
Jeffrey Drebin, department of surgery chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Eugene Fuller, surgeon and pioneer of the procedure of suprapubic prostatectomy
Robert Goldwyn, Chief of Plastic Surgery at the Beth Israel Hospital and editor-in-chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for 25 years^[11]
Ramon Guiteras, pioneering surgeon who specialized in urology and founded the American Urological Association
Dwight Harken, chief of thoracic surgery at Harvard University and innovator in heart surgery
Michael R. Harrison, chief in pediatric surgery at the Children's Hospital at the University of California, San Francisco
Griffith R. Harsh, 1980, chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UC Davis Health
Andrew C. Hecht, 1994, chief of spine surgery for the Mount Sinai Health System and The Mount Sinai Hospital
Richard Hodges, 1850, visiting surgeon and adjunct professor of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital
John Homans, surgeon who described Homans' sign
Robert William Hooper, surgeon at the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary
John W. Kirklin, 1942, chair of the department of surgery at the Mayo Clinic
Leonard B. Kaban, chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital
William E. Ladd, 1906, surgeon-in-chief at Boston Children's Hospital and one of the founders of pediatric surgery
Ralph Millard, 1944, plastic surgeon who developed several techniques used in cleft lip and palate surgeries
Francis Daniels Moore, 1939, surgeon who was a pioneer in numerous experimental surgical treatments
Joel Mark Noe, 1969, plastic surgeon at Beth Israel Hospital
Taine Pechet, 1992, thoracic surgeon and chief of surgery at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
John Reinisch, plastic surgeon and director of Craniofacial and Pediatric Plastic Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, professor and chair of Neurologic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Ernest Sachs Jr., 1942, neurosurgeon at Hitchcock Medical Center
William Sharpe, brain surgeon
Roy Glenwood Spurling, 1923, neurosurgeon remembered for describing Spurling's test
Orvar Swenson, 1937, pediatric surgeon, performed first surgery for Hirschsprung's disease^[16]
Augustus Thorndike, 1921, chief of surgery at Harvard University Health Service and a pioneer in sports medicine
Jonathan Mason Warren, 1832, one of the first surgeons to perform rhinoplasty operations
Claude E. Welch, surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert J. White, 1953, neurosurgeon who performed the first monkey head transplant
Blake Colburn Wilbur, 1925, surgeon and one of the co-founders of the Palo Alto Medical Clinic

Military

Zabdiel Boylston Adams, 1853, head surgeon for the 32nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War
Joseph Barnes, non-degreed, 12th Surgeon General of the United States Army
George Adams Bright, 1858, United States Navy Rear Admiral and medical director of the U.S. Navy and head of the Naval Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Andrew E. Budson, 1993, chief of cognitive and behavioral neurology associate chief of staff for education at the Veterans Affairs and professor at Boston University School of Medicine
Granville C. Coggs, 1953, trained bombardier pilot with the 477th Bombardment Group attached to the famed Tuskegee Airmen
Charles H. Crane, 1847, Surgeon General of the United States Army
Elliott Cutler, 1913, Brigadier general in the U.S. Army Medical Corps
Martin Delany, non-degreed, first proponent of black nationalism and first African-American field officer in the US^[17]
James Madison DeWolf, 1875, acting assistant surgeon in the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment who was killed in the Battle of the Little Big Horn
John Miller Turpin Finney, brigadier general during World War I remembered as the first president of the American College of Surgeons
Harold W. Jones, 1901, Director of the U.S. Army Medical Library
Joseph Lovell, 1811, Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
Manuel Morales, biophysicist at the Naval Medical Research Institute
Frank Otis, flight surgeon for the Massachusetts Air National Guard's 101st Observation Squadron
Paul Spangler, naval surgeon
George Augustus Wheeler, 1859, surgeon of United States Volunteers in charge of the U.S. General Hospital at Annapolis Junction, Maryland during the Civil War
Edward A. Wild, 1846, brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
Leonard Wood, 1884 Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Governor-General of the Philippines
Yeu-Tsu Margaret Lee, 1961, member of the Army Medical Corps and chief of surgical oncology atTripler Army Medical Center

Museology

George Lincoln Goodale, 1863, botanist and first director of Harvard's Botanical Museum (now part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History)
Joseph Bassett Holder, curator of invertebrates of the American Museum of Natural History
J. B. S. Jackson, 1829, first curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum and was dean of Harvard Medical School
William Fiske Whitney, 1875, anatomist and pioneer in the field of the medical museum
Jeffries Wyman, 1837, first curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and taught anatomy at Harvard Medical School

Nobel Prize laureates

Christian B. Anfinsen, 1942, biochemist and Nobel laureate, professor and researcher
J. Michael Bishop, 1962, immunologist, microbiologist, faculty of the University of California, San Francisco who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Jennifer Doudna, 1989, 2020 Nobel Prize recipient in the field of chemistry for the discovery of CRISPR Cas9^[18]
John Franklin Enders, 1930, biomedical scientist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, called "the Father of Modern Vaccines"
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 1946, chief of the Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies at the National Institutes of Health and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
George H. Hitchings, shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Charles Brenton Huggins, 1924, 1 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966
George Minot, 1912, researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize for pioneering work on pernicious anemia
William P. Murphy, 1922, physician who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for pioneering work on pernicious anemia
Joseph Murray, surgeon who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990
Frederick Chapman Robbins, virologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954
Ralph M. Steinman, 1968, recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
James B. Sumner, 1914, chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946
E. Donnall Thomas, 1946, shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of cell and organ transplantation
Thomas Huckle Weller, 1940, virologist and co-recipient a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954

Nonprofit

Seth Berkley, founder and former president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and former CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Peter Diamandis, 1989, founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, cofounder and executive chairman of Singularity University, and author
Frank Fremont-Smith, 1921, administrator and executive with the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and president of the World Federation for Mental Health
Clarence Gamble, 1920, advocate of birth control and founder of Pathfinder International
Phillips Foster Greene, 1919, director of the American Red Cross in China
Alan Gregg, 1916, director of the Medical Sciences Division and vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation
Bernadine Healy, 1970, director of the National Institutes of Health and CEO of the American Red Cross
Patrick Hogan, professor in the division of signaling and gene expression at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Vanessa Kerry, founder of the non-profit Seed Global Health and daughter of John Kerry
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Margaret A. Liu, director of Ipsen S.A. and president of the International Society of Vaccines
Borna Nyaoke-Anoke, head of mycetoma research at Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative^[19]
Paul F. O'Rourke, 1948, founding member of Operation USA and its first board chair and first Director of the California State Office of Economic Opportunity
Richard Rockefeller, chairman of the United States Advisory Board of Doctors Without Borders
Manny Sethi, 2005, president and founder of the non-profit Healthy Tennessee and an orthopedic trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Susan L. Swain, director and president of the Trudeau Institute
John Templeton Jr., president of the John Templeton Foundation
Robert Tjian, 1976, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
William H. Thomas, 1986, creator of Green House Project
Edgar Wayburn, 1930, environmentalist who served as the president of the Sierra Club five times
Nathan Wolfe, virologist and founder and director of Global Viral

Ophthalmology

Balamurali Ambati, ophthalmologist, educator, and Guinness Book of World Records youngest doctor
Horace Barlow, 1946, vision scientist
Jean Bennett, 1986, professor of ophthalmology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Caster, 1980, ophthalmologist and a cataract and refractive surgery expert
Edward Lorenzo Holmes, ophthalmologist who founded The University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary
John Jeffries II, 1819, ophthalmic surgeon who co-founded the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary
S. Rodman Irvine, 1936, ophthalmologist and ophthalmic surgeon, known for the Irvine-Gass syndrome
Herbert E. Kaufman, 1956, ophthalmologist who discovered idoxuridine
Joan Miller, 1985, ophthalmologist
Perry Rosenthal, non-degreed, ophthalmologist and co-founder of Polymer Technology Inc., which developed Boston Lens products
George Spaeth, ophthalmologist specializing in glaucoma at Wills Eye Institute
Terri Young, 1986, chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Pharmacology

Harriet Florence Maling, 1944, pharmacologist

Politics

Doc Adams, Connecticut House of Representatives and professional baseball player with the New York Knickerbockers
Azel Ames, 1871, Massachusetts State Legislature
Arnulfo Arias, President of Panama
Joseph Avellone, vice president for clinical research services at PAREXEL International and candidate for Massassuchess governor in 2014
Pierre Baillargeon, Senate of Canada
James Bates, U.S. House of Representatives
Frederick William Borden, 1868, Canada Minister for Militia and Defence
David J. Bradley, New Hampshire House of Representatives, author, and member of the 1940 Winter Olympics ski team
Joseph W. Clift, 1862, U.S. House of Representatives
Newton Ramsay Colter, House of Commons of Canada
Richard J. Curran, 1859, New York State Assembly
Robert T. Davis, 1848, United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
Louis-Léon Lesieur Désaulniers, 1846, House of Commons of Canada
Edwin Durnoc, 1927, United States House of Representatives
John F. Fitzgerald, non-degreed, United States House of Representatives and Mayor of Boston
Joshua Barker Flint, 1825, Massachusetts House of Representatives
James B. Forsyth, city councilor, alderman and as the sixth Mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts
Bill Frist, 1978, United States Senate 1995–2007
Lucius F. C. Garvin, 48th Governor of Rhode Island, Rhode Island House of Representatives, and Rhode Island Senate
Samuel Abbott Green, 1854, mayor of Boston
Ernest Gruening, 1912, Governor of the Alaska Territory and member of the United States Senate
Mary Anne Guggenheim, Montana House of Representatives
John C. Hall, 1852, Wisconsin State Senate
Charles-Aimé Kirkland, Legislative Assembly of Quebec
George W. Kittredge, U.S. House of Representatives and New Hampshire House of Representatives
Jerry Knirk, New Hampshire House of Representatives
George B. Loring, 1842, United States House of Representatives, United States Minister to Portugal, and United States Commissioner of Agriculture
Mahidol Adulyadej, 1921, Prince of Songkla and the father of modern medicine and public health in Thailand
David R. Moore, Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada
Ephraim Bell Muttart, 1861, House of Commons of Canada
Robert Nelson, leading figure in the Lower Canada Rebellion in 19th century Quebec and president of Republic of Lower Canada
Nathaniel Niles Jr., special diplomatic agent in Austria-Hungary and as chargé d’affaires to Sardinia
Amos Nourse, 1817, United States Senate
David Orentlicher, Nevada Assembly and Indiana House of Representatives
Phan Quang Đán, Vietnamese political opposition figure
Charles A. Phelps, 1844, speaker, of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and president of the Massachusetts Senate
Nathaniel S. Robinson, 1852, Wisconsin State Assembly
Olivier Robitaille, 1838, mayor of Quebec City
Raul Ruiz, U.S. House of Representatives
Pierre de Sales Laterrière, 1789, seigneur of the municipality Les Éboulements in New France (Canada)
Benjamin Shurtleff, 1848, California State Senate
Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
Victor W. Sidel, founder and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Jill Stein, 1979, THE Green Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 and 2016
Maltby Strong, non-degreed, mayor of Rochester, New York
Charles Rumford Walker, New Hampshire State Legislature
John Wickwire, Nova Scotia House of Assembly
Charles F. Winslow, 1834, U.S. Consul at Payta, Peru
Leonard Wood, 1884, Governor-General of the Philippines and Chief of Staff of the United States Army
David Wu, non-degreed, United States House of Representatives
Samuel Zager, Maine House of Representatives

Psychiatry

Paul S. Appelbaum, 1975, psychiatrist and professor at Columbia University
Rajendra Badgaiyan, psychiatrist and cognitive neuroscientist
Perry Cossart Baird Jr., early researcher of bipolar disorder
Carl Binger, 1914, psychiatrist and author
Eugene Brody, 1944, psychiatrist, dean for Social and Behavioral Studies at the University of Maryland, and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
Robert Cabaj, psychiatrist and author known for his extensive publications on LGBT mental health issues
George Cheyne Shattuck Choate, 1849, founder of Choate House, a psychiatric sanatorium
John Gordon Clark, psychiatrist known for his research on the effects of cults
Stanley Cobb,1914, neurologist and "the founder of biological psychiatry in the United States"
Raquel Eidelman Cohen, 1949, child psychiatrist specialized in Disaster Management
Owen Copp, 1884, assistant superintendent at Taunton State Hospital
Lance Dodes, 1970, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst best known for his theory that all addictions are psychological compulsions
Robert DuPont, 1963, psychiatrist, known for his advocacy in the field of substance abuse
Mark Epstein, author and psychotherapist who integrates Shakyamuni Buddha's teachings with Sigmund Freud's approaches to trauma
Ronald R. Fieve, psychiatrist known for his work on the use of lithium as a treatment of mood disorders
Nathan Fox, 1975, developmental psychologist and distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland
Jerome Frank, psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School
Andrew J. Gerber, psychoanalyst, director of research at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and president and medical director of Silver Hill Hospital
Bernard Glueck Jr., 1938, psychiatrist and director of research at The Institute of Living, now part of Hartford Hospital
James Samuel Gordon, psychiatrist known for mind-body medicine and founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Michael Grunebaum, 1991, psychiatrist with the New York State Psychiatric Institute
John G. Gunderson, 1967, psychiatrist and the "father" of borderline personality disorder"
Lawrence Hartmann, psychiatrist, social-psychiatric activist, and former president of the American Psychiatric Association
William James, 1869, philosopher, psychologist, and the "father of American psychology"
Judith V. Jordan, founding scholar of the Jean Baker Miller Institand attending psychologist at McLean Hospital
Gerald D. Klee, 1952, psychiatrist and medical educator who made public the secret LSD experiments involving American servicemen in the late 1950s
Harry Kozol, neurologist who helped establish the fields of forensic psychiatry and neuropsychiatry
Peter D. Kramera, 1976, psychiatrist specializing in clinical depression
Stefan P. Kruszewski, clinical and forensic psychiatrist, active as a whistleblower in medically related cases
Shirley F. Marks, 1973, psychiatrist and professor at Baylor College of Medicine
Karl Menninger, 1917, psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic
John Case Nemiah, 1943, psychiatrist-in-chief at the Beth Israel Hospital
Walter Pahnke, psychiatrist most famous for the Marsh Chapel Experiment
Morton Prince, 1879, a leading force in establishing psychology as a clinical and academic discipline and editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Chester Middlebrook Pierce, 1952, psychiatrist and professor of education and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who coined the term "microaggression"
Harrison Pope, 1974, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician at McLean Hospital
Harold Searles, pioneer of psychiatric medicine who specialized in psychoanalytic treatments of schizophrenia
Boris Sidis, psychologist and philosopher of education who founded the New York State Psychopathic Institute and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Philip Solomon, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Physician in Chief of Psychiatry at Boston City Hospital
Elmer Ernest Southard, 1901, neuropsychiatrist who headed the Boston Psychopathic Hospital
David Spiegel, 1971, psychiatrist, professor, associate chair of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine
Charles Harrison Stedman, 1828, a founder of the American Psychiatric Association NS superintendent of Boston State Hospital
George Eman Vaillant, psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Nina Vasan, psychiatrist and author
Robert J. Waldinger, 1978, psychiatrist who directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest-running studies of adult life ever conducted
Lyman Wynne, psychiatrist and psychologist with a special interest in schizophrenia

Religion

Marcus Ames, minister, head of the Lancaster Industrial School for Girls, and chaplain of the state institutions of Rhode Island
Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, non-degreed, congregational minister
Robert Traill Spence Lowell, non-degreed, Episcopal clergyman, missionary, inspector of schools for Bermuda, and headmaster of St. Mark's School^[8]
LeRoy S. Wirthlin, president of the Germany Munich Austria Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Science

Vincent Allard, entomologist
Thomas Mayo Brewer, 1838, naturalist, specializing in ornithology and zoology with the Boston Society of Natural History
Henry Bryant, 1843, naturalist specializing in ornithology
Samuel Cabot III, 1839, pioneering surgeon, ornathologist, and field explorer
Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, 1966, biochemist, DNA researcher, and editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Robert K. Crane, 1950, biochemist best known for his discovery of sodium–glucose cotransport
James Freeman Dana, 1817, chemist
Samuel Luther Dana, 1818, chemist with Newton Chemical Company and the Merrimack Manufacturing Company
William Gilson Farlow, 1870, botanist and professor known as the "father" of cryptogamic botany in the United States"
Lydia W. S. Finley, scientist known for her contributions to understanding the metabolic underpinnings of stem cell fate
Mahlon Hoagland, 1948, biochemist who discovered transfer RNA
Charles Thomas Jackson, 1829, state geologist of Maine and Rhode Island
John Charles Phillips, 1904, zoologist, ornithologist, environmentalist, and author
Charles Pickering, 1826, naturalist, curator, author, and physician
John Witt Randall, 1811, noted art collector ad consulting zoologist to the United States Exploring Expedition
Edward Lewis Sturtevant, 1866, agronomist and botanist who wrote Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World
Yellapragada Subbarow, biochemist who discovered the function of adenosine triphosphate
Giovanni J. Ughi, engineer and scientist, is one of the inventors of multimodality optical coherence tomography

Sports

R. G. Acton, head football coach at Vanderbilt University
Doc Adams, Connecticut House of Representatives and professional baseball player with the New York Knickerbockers
Mark Adickes, professional football player
Tenley Albright, 1961, figure skater, 1956 Olympic champion, the 1952 Olympic silver medalist, the 1953, and 1955 World Champion
José Alvalade, non-degreed, founder and first club member of the multisport club Sporting Clube de Portugal
Omar Amr, water polo player with the United States national team and the 2004 Summer Olympics
Thomas Aretz, breaststroke and medley swimmer who competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics
Robert Beck, modern pentathlete and fencer who won three gold medals at the Pan American Games and a bronze medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics
David J. Bradley, New Hampshire House of Representatives, author, and member of the 1940 Winter Olympics ski team
Pepper Constable, college football player
Renn Crichlow, sprint kayaker who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics
Frank Duffy, equestrian who competed in two events at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Jernej Godec, 2016, freestyle and butterfly swimmer who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Scott Goodwin, professional soccer player
David Guthrie Freeman, 1945, badminton player and inductee in the U.S. and World Badminton Halls of Fame
William Hoyt, track and field athlete who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics
Daniel Hurley, 1909, college football player and All-American in 1904 and 1905
Andy Larkin, rower who competed in the men's eight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics
George Lee, 1904, college football player and 1901 College Football All-America Team
William C. Mackie, 1898, college football player and coach
Thomas H. Maguire, college football coach
Judy Melick, competition swimmer who participated as part of the U.S. team at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Ralph Miller, 1961, alpine ski race whocompeted in three events at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Fred T. Murphy, college football players at Yale University, 1895 College Football All-America Team, and 1896 College Football All-America Team
Franklin Nelson, 1961, ice dancer who was the 1956 U.S. national bronze medalist
Mary O'Neill, fencer who competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics
Walter Pritchard, track and field Olympian and cardiologist
Nate Pulsifer, non-degreed, minor league baseball player and collegiate American football and basketball and coach
Henry B. Richardson, archer and medalist at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Victoria Rogers, professional tennis player
Harry Edward Sears, sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
James Simrall, college football player
Pat Tyrance, 1997, professional football player with Los Angeles Rams^[20]
Joan Ullyot, 1966, runner who won ten marathons, including the masters category at the Boston Marathon in 1984
Arthur White, 1902, college football coach
Paul Withington, 1914, college football player and coach

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[1] Pearce, Jeremy (2006-01-12). "Dr. Ira B. Black, 64, Leader in New Jersey Stem Cell Effort, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-15.

[2] "John R. Adler, MD | Stanford Medicine". CAP Profiles (in Samoan). Retrieved 2023-11-15.

[3] Archives, L. A. Times (2003-03-08). "Dr. Harold Amos, 84; Mentor to Aspiring Minority Physicians". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-11-15.

[4] "Constantino Mendieta es un cirujano plástico estadounidense reconocido por su experiencia en el contorno corporal". Retrieved 2024-01-07.

[ucla-5] "Jonathan Braun, M.D., Ph.D." UCLA School of Medicine. Retrieved October 5, 2013.

[6] "Carl W. Walter papers". Harvard Libraries. Retrieved November 30, 2023.

[7] Flaherty, Randi (2020). "Wax, Amy L. (1994–2001)". University of Virginia. Retrieved 2023-11-15.

[:1-8] "Lowell, Robert Traill Spence". Dictionary of Canadian Biography Volume XII (1891–1900). Retrieved 2023-11-23.

[9] "The Real World: San Francisco | Pam". MTV. Archived from the original on April 7, 2009. Retrieved February 16, 2017.

[10] Johnson, Dirk (1990-01-20). "Man in the News: Woodrow Augustus Myers Jr.; A Commissioner Who Knows Strife". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-15.

[:0-11] Murray, Joseph E. (October 2004). "Bob Goldwyn". Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 114: vi–vii. doi:10.1097/00006534-200410001-00004. ISSN 0032-1052.

[12] Howard Atwood Kelly, Walter Lincoln Burrage, American Medical Biographies (1920) pg. 527, via Google Books.

[13] Pearce, Jeremy (2006-01-12). "Dr. Ira B. Black, 64, Leader in New Jersey Stem Cell Effort, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-15.

[14] Menand, Louis (2001), The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 7–9, ISBN 0-374-52849-7

[15] "Medicine: Negro Fellow – TIME". 2010-11-25. Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2023-11-15.

[16] Grosfeld, Jay L.; Othersen, H. Beimann (2009). "A tribute to Orvar Swenson on his 100th birthday". Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 44 (2): 475. doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.01.004. PMID 19231562.

[17] Menand, Louis (2001), The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 7–9, ISBN 0-374-52849-7

[18] "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2023-11-15.

[19] "Top 40 Women Under 40 in Kenya" Business Daily Africa. (October 26, 2017) Archived (PDF) from the original on November 11, 2017.

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