List of pathologists

{{Short description|none}} {{Unreferenced|date=May 2026}} A list of people notable in the field of pathology.

==A== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * John Abercrombie, Scottish physician, neuropathologist and philosopher. * Maude Abbott (1869–1940), Canadian pathologist, one of the earliest women graduated in medicine, expert in congenital heart diseases. * Emile Achard (1860–1944), French internist and pathologist. * A. Bernard Ackerman (1936–2008), American dermatopathologist & dermatologist * Lauren Ackerman (1905–1993), American pathologist and one of the fathers of Surgical pathology. * Theodor Ackermann (1825–1896), German pathologist. * Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz (1850–1921), Polish pathologist, (see Artery of Adamkiewicz). * W. Stewart Alexander, contemporary British pathologist (see Alexander disease). * Dame Ingrid Allen, Northern Irish neuropathologist. * Friedrich August von Ammon (1799–1861), German ophthalmologist and pathologist. * Gabriel Andral (1797–1876) French pathologist. * Peter Angritt (1938-2024), U.S. Army colonel and clinical pathologist * Nikolay Anichkov (1885–1964), Russian pathologist. * Julius Arnold (1835–1915), German pathologist. * Ludwig Aschoff (1866–1942), German pathologist, discoverer of the Aschoff body and the Atrioventricular node in the heart. * Max Askanazy (1865–1940), German pathologist (see Askanazy cell). * E. Ask-Upmark, 20th-century Swedish pathologist (see Ask-Upmark kidney). {{div col end}}

==B== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Matthew Baillie (1761{{ndash}}1823), British physician and pathologist, credited with first identifying transposition of the great vessels and situs inversus. * Heinrich von Bamberger (1822–1888), Austrian pathologist from Prague. * Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1848–1928), German pathologist. * John Bruce Beckwith (1933–2025), American pathologist (see Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome). * Antonio di Paolo Benivieni (1443{{ndash}}1502), Florentine physician who pioneered the use of the autopsy and many medical historians have considered him a founder of pathology. * Franz Best (1878–1920), German pathologist (see Best's disease). * Xavier Bichat (1771–1802), French anatomist and physiologist, remembered as father of modern histology and pathology. * Max Bielschowsky (1869–1940), German neuropathologist & developer of histochemical stains. * Edmund Biernacki (1866–1912), Polish pathologist (see Biernacki Reaction). * Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld (1842–1899), German pathologist. * Giulio Bizzozero (1846–1901), Italian doctor and medical researcher. * Otto Bollinger (1843–1909), German pathologist. * Charles-Joseph Bouchard (1837–1915), French pathologist. * William Boyd (1885–1979), Scottish-Canadian physician, pathologist, academic and author of several 20th-century textbooks on general and surgical pathology. * Erich Franz Eugen Bracht (1882–1969), German pathologist and gynaecologist. * Fritz Brenner (1877–1969), German pathologist (see Brenner tumor). * Alexander Breslow (1928–1980), American pathologist (see Breslow's depth). * Richard Bright (1789–1858), British internist and pathologist (see Bright's disease). * Ludwig von Buhl (1816–1880), German pathologist. {{div col end}}

==C== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish pathologist and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1906 * Francis Camps (1905–1972), English forensic pathologist. * Myrtelle Canavan (1879–1953), American physician, medical researcher, and one of the first female pathologists (see Canavan disease). * Karl Friedrich Canstatt (1807–1850), German physician, pathologist, and medical author. * Marie Cassidy (born 1959), Irish forensic pathologist.<ref name="tape">[https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18931766.beyond-tape-dr-marie-cassidy-life-forensic-pathologist/ Beyond The Tape: Dr Marie Cassidy on her life as a forensic pathologist] By Susan Swarbrick, ''The Herald'', 12 December 2020</ref> * Benjamin Castleman (1906–1982), American surgical pathologist and eponymist of Castleman's disease. * Jamie Chapman (1970–present), Australian ground-breaking histologist. * Hans Chiari (1851–1916), Austrian pathologist (see Arnold–Chiari malformation, Budd–Chiari syndrome). * Jacob Churg (1910–2005), Russian-born American pathologist (see Churg–Strauss syndrome). * Giuseppe Vincenzo Ciaccio (1824–1901), Italian anatomist and histologist. * Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839–1884), German pathologist known for his research on the mechanism of inflammation and the study of circulation. * Albert Coons (1912–1978), American physician, immunologist, & immunopathologist. * Astley Cooper (1768–1841), English surgeon, anatomist & pathologist. * Victor André Cornil (1837–1908), French pathologist and histologist. * Dominic Corrigan (1802–1880), Irish physician & pathologist (see Corrigan's pulse). * Ramzi Cotran, American pathologist * William Thomas Councilman (1854–1933), American pathologist (see Councilman body). * Jean Cruveilhier (1791–1874), French anatomist and pathologist (see Cruveilhier's sign, Cruveilhier–Baumgarten disease). {{div col end}}

==D== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * David C. Dahlin (1917–2003) American surgical & orthopedic pathologist. * Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance (1797–1832) French pathologist. * Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856–1938), French pathologist and dermatologist. * James R. Dawson (1908–1986), American pathologist (see Dawson encephalitis). * Francis Delafield (1841–1915), American physician & pathologist. * Franz Dittrich (1815–1859), Austrian-Bohemian-German pathologist. * Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle (1855–1928), German pathologist & histologist (see Döhle bodies). * William L. Donohue (1906–1985), Canadian pathologist (see Donohue syndrome). * Georges Dreyer (1873–1934), Danish pathologist, professor of pathology at Oxford University. * I. N. Dubin (born 1913), American pathologist (see Dubin–Johnson syndrome). * Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), English physician and pathologist for whom the Dukes classification for colorectal cancer is named. * Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), French military surgeon & surgical pathologist. {{div col end}}

==E== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Karl Joseph Eberth (1835–1926), German pathologist and bacteriologist. * William E. Ehrich (1900–1967), German-American pathologist, professor of pathology at Philadelphia General Hospital and the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. * Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German physician, researcher and pathologist, Nobel laureate, one of the founders of immunology & laboratory medicine. * Jakob Erdheim (1874–1937), Austrian pathologist (see Erdheim–Chester disease). * James Ewing (1866–1943), American surgical pathologist, first professor of pathology at Cornell University, eponymist of Ewing's sarcoma, one of the founders of AACR. {{div col end}}

==F== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Robert (Robin) Sanno Fåhræus (1888–1968), Swedish pathologist (see Fåhræus effect and Fåhræus–Lindqvist effect). * Sidney Farber (1903–1973), American pediatric pathologist, regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy, and after whom the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute is named. * Martin J. Fettman (born 1956), American veterinarian, veterinary pathologist, and astronaut * Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1867–1928), Danish physician & pathologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1926. * Paul Flechsig (1847–1929), German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist. * Christopher D. M. Fletcher, Anglo-American pathologist * Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819–1885), German pathologist. * Nikolaus Friedreich (1825–1882), German pathologist and neurologist. * August von Froriep (1849–1917), German anatomist. * Robert Froriep (1804–1861), German anatomist and medical publisher. {{div col end}}

==G== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt (1833–1902), German pathologist * Joseph von Gerlach (1820–1896), German professor of anatomy, pioneer of histological staining and micrography * Gustav Giemsa (1867–1948), German physician, pathologist, & histochemist (see Giemsa stain) * Anthony Gill (born 1972), Australian pathologist and medical researcher * Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian neuropathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1906 * Ernest Goodpasture (1886–1960), American pathologist, eponymist of Goodpasture's syndrome * Austin Gresham (1925–2009), English forensic pathologist {{div col end}}

==H== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Hakaru Hashimoto (1881–1934), Japanese medical scientist. * Ludvig Hektoen (1863–1951), American researcher on pathology of infectious diseases. * Arnold Ludwig Gotthilf Heller (1840–1913), German anatomist and pathologist. * Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809–1885), German physician, pathologist and anatomist. * Richard L. Heschl (1824–1881), Austrian anatomist & pathologist. * Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866), English physician & pathologist; eponymist of Hodgkin's disease. * Friedrich Albin Hoffmann (1843–1924), German internist and pathologist. * Jason Hornick, American pathologist and researcher * Karl Hürthle (1860–1945), German physiologist and histologist. * Helen Hart (1900–1971), American plant pathologist {{div col end}}

==J== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Elaine Jaffe, American pathologist, expert in research, diagnostics and classification of lymphomas, particularly follicular lymphoma. {{div col end}}

==K== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Fujiro Katsurada (1867–1946), Japanese pathologist. * Eduard Kaufmann (1860–1931), German pathologist. * Ernest Kennaway (1881–1958), English clinical chemist and researcher on carcinogenesis. * Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011), American pathologist, controversial advocate of euthanasia. * Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (1834–1913), German-Swiss pathologist. * Julius von Kossa 19th-century Austro-Hungarian pathologist (see Von Kossa stain). * Leiv Kreyberg (1896–1984), Norwegian war hero, humanitarian and pathologist known for typology of lung cancer. * Hans Kundrat (1845–1893), Austrian pathologist. * Kathleen Coard (born 1952), Grenadian pathologist. {{div col end}}

==L== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Paul Eston Lacy (1924–2005), former chairperson of pathology at Washington University and diabetes researcher. * Paul Langerhans (1847–1888), German pathologist, physiologist and biologist. * William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), English authority on the pathology of human parasitic diseases (see leishmaniasis) * George Lignac (1891–1954), Dutch pathologist-anatomist. * Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879–1956), Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist * James Linder (born 1954), American cytopathologist and technological developer * Leo Loeb (1869–1959), American pathologist and early cancer researcher. * Esmond Ray Long (1890–1970), American pathologist, epidemiologist, and medical historian. {{div col end}}

==M== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Frank Burr Mallory (1862–1941), American surgical pathologist & histochemist (see Mallory bodies) * Rod Markin (born 1956) American pioneer in laboratory automation. * Alexander A. Maximow (1874–1928), Russian-American scientist, histologist and embryologist. * John McCrae (1872–1918), Canadian pathologist, physician, soldier and poet, author of [In Flanders Fields]. * Frances Gertrude McGill (1882–1959), pioneering Canadian pathologist and criminologist * Tracey McNamara, veterinary pathologist at the Bronx Zoo who played a pivotal role in identifying the first outbreak of West Nile Virus in the United States * Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), Italian pathologist, considered the father of modern Anatomical Pathology {{div col end}}

==N== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Heijiro Nakayama (1871–1956), Japanese pathologist. * Bernhard Naunyn (1839–1925), German pathologist. * Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (1834–1918), German pathologist. * Thomas Noguchi (born 1927), Japanese American forensic pathologist & medical examiner. {{div col end}}

==O== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Shuji Ogino (born 1968), Japanese pathologist, epidemiologist, Harvard University professor, and pioneer in molecular pathological epidemiology. * Eugene Lindsay Opie (1873–1971), American pathologist and researcher on tuberculosis. * Johannes Orth (1847–1923), German pathologist. * William Osler (1849–1919), Canadian physician and pathologist, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital. {{div col end}}

==P== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Richard Paltauf (1858–1924), Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist. * George Nicolas Papanicolaou (1883–1962), Greek-American cytopathologist & developer of the Papanicolaou cervical smear (see Pap smear) * Artur Pappenheim (1870–1916), German physician, developer of histochemical stains. * Lukáš Plank (born 1951), Slovak pathologist specializing in oncopathology and hematopathology. * Emil Ponfick (1844–1913), German pathologist. {{div col end}}

==R== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835–1922), French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer of nodes of Ranvier. * Ronald Rapini (born 1948), US dermatopathologist; discoverer of sclerotic fibroma. * Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833–1910), German pathologist. * Benno Reinhardt (1819–1852), German physician, specialized in pathological anatomy. * Donald Rix (1931–2009), founder of a Canadian commercial pathology laboratory. * Carl von Rokitansky (1804–1878), Bohemian autopsy pathologist. * Juan Rosai (1940–2020), Italian-American surgical pathologist, discoverer of Rosai-Dorfman disease and the desmoplastic small round cell tumor. * Gustave Roussy (1874–1948), Swiss-French neuropathologist. {{div col end}}

==S== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Christian Georg Schmorl (1861–1932), German pathologist. * Richard Scolyer, Australian pathologist * Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793–1864), German naturalist, and pathologist. * Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), English neuropathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1932 * Richard Shope (1901–1966), American virologist and pathologist. * Keith Simpson (1907–1985), English forensic pathologist. * Maud Slye (1879–1954), American experimental pathologist. * Theobald Smith (1859–1934), American pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist. * Kim Solez (born 1946), American pathologist, father of the Banff Classification of Transplantation Pathology. * Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877–1947), British pathologist. * Sophie Spitz (1910–1956), American surgical pathologist, eponymist of Spitz nevus * Edward Stafne (born 1894, date of death unknown), American oral pathologist (see Stafne defect). * Allen Starry (1890–1973), American pathologist (see Warthin–Starry stain). * Javier Arias Stella (1924–2020), Peruvian pathologist, describer of the Arias Stella reaction in the endometrium. * Stephen Sternberg (1920–2021), American pathologist, founding Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Surgical Pathology and editor of several 20th-century pathology textbooks. * Arthur Purdy Stout (1885–1967). American surgeon and pathologist, & one of the fathers of modern Surgical pathology. * Lotte Strauss (1913–1985), American pathologist (see Churg–Strauss syndrome). {{div col end}}

==T== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Sunao Tawara (1873–1952), Japanese pathologist, discoverer of the Atrioventricular node. * Donald Teare (1911–1979), British pathologist. * Jacques-René Tenon (1724–1816), French surgeon and pathologist. * Ludwig Traube (1818–1876), German physician, co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany. * Václav Treitz (1819–1872), Czech pathologist. * Charles Emile Troisier (1844–1919), French doctor. {{div col end}}

==U== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Johann Paul Uhle (1827–1861), German physician and pathologist. * Paul Gerson Unna (1850–1929), one of the founders of dermatopathology. * James Underwood (born 1942), British pathologist. {{div col end}}

==V== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * José Verocay (1876–1927), Uruguayan pathologist (see Verocay body). * Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), German physician, politician, & the father of "cellular" pathology. * Adolf Vossius (1855–1925), German pathologist (see Vossius ring). {{div col end}}

==W== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Erik Waaler (1903–1997), Norwegian professor of medicine. * Hermann Julius Gustav Wächter (born 1878, date of death unknown), German physician (see Bracht-Wachter bodies). * Ernst Leberecht Wagner (1829–1888), German pathologist. * Heinrich von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921), German anatomist. * Robin Warren (born 1937), Australian gastrointestinal pathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2005. * Aldred Scott Warthin (1866–1931), American pathologist (see Warthin–Starry stain). * David Weatherall (1933–2013), British physician and researcher * Friedrich Wegener (1907–1990), Nazi German pathologist (see granulomatosis with polyangiitis). * Anton Weichselbaum (1845–1920), Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist. * Carl Weigert (1845–1904), developer of histochemical stains. * Adolf Weil (1848–1916), German physician and pathologist (see Weil's disease). * Ronald S. Weinstein (1938–2021), American pathologist, inventor, educator (see Telepathology). * Sharon Weiss (born 1945), American surgical pathologist, expert on soft tissue pathology (see Sarcoma). * William Henry Welch (1850–1934), American physician, pathologist, bacteriologist, medical school administrator, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital. * Max Westenhöfer, (1871–1957), German pathologist, disciple of Rudolf Virchow, author of the aquatic ape hypothesis and influential on the development of pathology and social medicine in Chile. * George Whipple (1878–1976), American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1934. * James Homer Wright (1869–1928), surgical pathologist and developer of histochemical stains (see Wright stain). * Guy Alfred Wyon (1883–1924), English pathologist, one of the team which resolved the issue of potentially-fatal TNT poisoning in shell factories during World War I {{div col end}}

==Y== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Yamagiwa Katsusaburō (1863–1930) Japanese pathologist, developed the concept of chemical carcinogenesis. {{div col end}}

==Z== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn (1845–1904), German pathologist. * Friedrich Albert von Zenker (1825–1898), German pathologist and physician. * Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen (1829–1902), German pathologist and physician. {{div col end}}

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