List of dentists
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Farmer at the dentist, Johann Liss, c. 1616–17
This is a list of dentists who have gained a degree of notability, particularly with regard to the history of those in the field.
[edit] Real-life dentists
- Harold Albrecht – Conservative Party of Canada politician[1]
- Bill Allen – former president of the British Dental Association.[2]
- Edward Angle – Father of Orthodontics
- Steve Arlin – Dentist after playing Major League Baseball
- Gunadasa Amarasekara – Sinhala language writer[3]
- Amalia Assur (1803–1889) first woman dentist in Sweden and possibly Europe.
- Franz Bäke – Nazi Panzer ace.
- Henryka Bartnicka-Tajchert – Member of the Anti-Nazi Polish resistance who became a dentist
- Charles Spence Bate – An authority on crustaceans, five species are named for him
- William George Beers – Established the Montreal Lacrosse Club and the Canada Journal of Dental Science[4]
- Samuel Bemis – Photography pioneer who became an eccentric recluse[5]
- Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow – Former head of the dentistry center of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry under Saparmurat Niyazov, currently President of Turkmenistan[6]
- Paul Beresford – Conservative Party (UK) politician.
- Greene Vardiman Black – invented a foot-driven dental drill and is classed as a father of modern dentistry
- Robert Blake – He wrote, An Essay on the Structure and Formation of the Teeth in Man and Various Animals.
- Jan Boubli – French professional poker player and retired dentist[7]
- Allan G. Brodie – American dentist who established the Prize Essay Award to promote research
- Edgar Buchanan – Primarily known for his later career as an actor in shows like Petticoat Junction
- Martin van Butchell – Eccentric who put his wife's head on display at his home/practice after her death[8]
- Donald J. Butz – U.S. Air Force Major General
- Billy Cannon
- Georg Carabelli – Court dentist to the Austrian Emperor who founded a clinic in the University of Vienna
- Gerald Cardinale – Republican Party (United States) politician with a dental office in Fort Lee, New Jersey[9]
- James Carlisle – Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda and member of the British Dental Association[10]
- Steve Christian – One of the Pitcairn Island sex abusers who did dentistry and was Mayor
- Dipak Chudasama – Cricketer called "The Doc" because he's a qualified dentist
- Antoni Cieszyński – Polish head of a Stomatology Institute who was killed in the Massacre of Lwów professors
- Bernard J. Cigrand – Possibly the "Father of Flag Day"[11]
- Barney Clark – First recipient of the Jarvik 7 artificial heart
- Henry D. Cogswell – Designed a method of securing dental plates, and in the temperance movement[12]
- Frederick J. Conboy – A secretary of the Ontario Dental Association and later mayor of Toronto
- Dan Crane – American Dentist/politician. Republican Party[13]
- Miles Henry Davis – Ran for a seat on the State Legislature, NAACP member, and father to Miles Davis[14]
- Bessie Delany – Of some note as the second black woman to be granted a dentistry license in New York state[15]
- G. Walter Dittmar – A former president of the American Dental Association
- Bill Emmerson – California State Assembly member who had a 22 year practice
- Thomas W. Evans – founded the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
- Sheila Faith – British politician of the Conservative party
- Pierre Fauchard – wrote the first complete scientific description of dentistry[16]
- Rabab Fetieh – First Saudi female orthodontist
- Alfred Fones (1869-1938) – came up with the name "dental hygienist" and founded that profession[17]
- Sten Forshufvud – Swedish dentist who drew on his professional knowledge when theorizing about the poisoning of Napoleon
- Rosalie Fougelberg – An early female dentist in Sweden
- Samir Ghawshah – Leader of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front
- John Goodsir – Wrote a noted essay on teeth
- George Franklin Grant – First African-American professor at Harvard. He also invented a wooden golf tee.[18]
- Greeeen – Four member Japanese pop music band consisting entirely of dentists who studied at Ohu University in Fukushima[19]
- John "Dok" Hager – Cartoonist whose nickname came from his days as a dentist
- Jim Harrell, Jr. – past chairman of the American Dental Association Council on Governmental Affairs, and a Democratic Party (United States) politician
- Chapin A. Harris – Founded the first dental school in the US, or possibly anywhere
- John Henry "Doc" Holliday – Dentist and American Folklore icon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral participant
- Les Horvath – Winner of Heisman Trophy who became a dentist
- Edward Hudson – Eminent dentist when the field was new, he is also noted for making fake "ruins"
- Lester C. Hunt – Democratic Party (United States) politician who served in the Dental Corps in World War I.(Committed suicide)
- Fatima Jinnah – Sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and "Mother of the Nation" in Pakistan
- Arif Alvi – Former Secretary General of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
- Erhard Keller – Speed skater at the Winter Olympic Games and professional dentist for over thirty years
- Michael Krop – Democratic Party (United States) politician with a school named for him
- Peter Kunter – Football player for Eintracht Frankfurt
- Donald Leake – Dentist, inventor of the alloplastic tray, and oboist
- Charles Goodall Lee – He was the first licensed dentist of Asian ancestry in the United States of America. He was a founder of Chinatown, Oakland, California, and helped fund the founding of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance.
- Jim Lonborg – In the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame, he is now a dentist.
- Mahlon Loomis – Known for a wireless telegraph patent
- Jiko Luveni – Fijian dentist who works on combatting AIDS
- Edward Maynard – He worked on United States Congressmen and in 1888 he held the chair of Dental Theory and Practice at the National university in Washington. (Better known for firearms inventions)
- Stanley McInnis – Canadian who moved a motion at a meeting of the Canadian Dental Association to adopt a code of ethics, also a politician
- Markus Merk – FIFA referee from Germany
- Ramón Mestre – Former Governor of Córdoba
- Frederick B. Morrehead – Helped save the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry
- Jack Miller – The "racing dentist" who was in the Indianapolis 500
- Richard Müller (murderer) – German dentist and murderer
- John Newbrough – Of Oahspe
- Charlie Norwood – served in the Dental Corps and was a member of the United States Congress
- Hessam Nowzari – founder of the Taipei Academy of Reconstructive Dentistry in Taiwan
- Frederick Bogue Noyes – organized the first course on dental pathology in the United States
- Giovanni Battista Orsenigo – Monk/dentist
- Rodrigues Ottolengui – Sephardic Jewish dental pioneer who was one of the first to use X-rays (also wrote mystery novels)
- Ron Packard – Navy Dental Corps and a private practice, he was later on the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations
- Painless Parker – Dentist and huckster
- Rudy Perpich – American dentist/politician of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
- Fritz Pfeffer – Dentist who hid with Anne Frank
- Earl W. Renfroe – Broke barriers for African American, headed a dentistry department[20]
- Paul Rentsch – Dentist in the Nazi resistance movement[21]
- Harry Sagansky – Gangster trained in dentistry who had a practice
- Ben L. Salomon – American military dentist and World War II Medal of Honor recipient
- Hugo Sánchez – Mexican football player
- Isaac Schour – A former dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry
- Helen Rulison Shipley, first female dentist in Nevada
- John Smith (dentist) – the founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry
- Mark Spitz – Olympic swimmer (was actually accepted to dental school, but competed in the Olympics instead)
- Charles Stent – Dentist who advanced Dentures making
- Jon Sudbø – Norwegian dentist linked to a case of scientific misconduct
- Lucy Hobbs Taylor – The first female in the United States with a doctorate in dentistry
- José Roberto Magalhães Teixeira – Brazilian politician
- Mohamed Khir bin Toyo – Malaysian politician
- Charles Murray Turpin – Republican politician in the United States House of Representatives
- Thomas Bramwell Welch – Founder of Welch's
- Horace Wells – Pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, later committed suicide
[edit] Fictional dentists
- Carl Howell – from the TV series Glee.
- Bernard Nadler – from the TV series Lost.
- Matthew Brock – from NewsRadio. (Although he gave it up to work in radio and is only seen practicing in one episode)
- Dr. Tariq Faraj – From Oz.
- Bob Fish – a title character in Bob and Margaret.
- Dr Barry Farber – Rachel's fiance whom she left at the altar from Friends
- Ben Harper – from British sitcom My Family.
- Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky – from The Whole Nine Yards and The Whole Ten Yards.
- John Patterson – in For Better or For Worse.
- Dr. Frank Sangster – in Novocaine.
- Julia Harris from the film Horrible Bosses.
- Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. (Steve Martin) – Little Shop of Horrors (1986 film)
- Christian Szell – from William Goldman's Marathon Man, later a movie by John Schlesinger
- Capt. Walter Koskiusko Waldowski, "Painless Pole" – in MASH
- Tim Whatley – from the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, alleged to be an insincere convert to Judaism.
- Dr. Wolfe – from The Simpsons
- Isaac Yankem, DDS – professional wrestler portrayed by Glenn Jacobs in the WWF (now known as Kane)
- Orson Hodge – from Desperate Housewives
- Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) – Manhattan dentist in the 1979 comedy film The In-Laws
- The W.C. Fields character in the 1932 short film The Dentist
- Jerry Robinson, an orthodontist who shared the office suite on Bob Newhart Show
- Brock Hart – from the TV series Reba
- Unnamed parents of Hermione Granger, from the Harry Potter novels
[edit] References
- ^ Parliamentarian File
- ^ British Dental Journal at Nature
- ^ Infolanka
- ^ Lacrosse website
- ^ Luminous Lint
- ^ The Guardian
- ^ World Poker Tour Profile
- ^ National Institute of Health
- ^ Project Vote Smart Profile
- ^ Interview at Adventist Review
- ^ National Flag Day site
- ^ Cogswell Polytechnical College
- ^ Biographical Directory of the US Congress
- ^ Illinois Review
- ^ Columbia University Profile of Delany
- ^ French Library of Medicine
- ^ NIH
- ^ Harvard Medical Profiles
- ^ "GReeeeNのSOHが歯科医師国家試験合格! メンバー全員が歯科医に" (in Japanese). Oricon. 2010-03-30. http://juken.oricon.co.jp/74777/full/. Retrieved 2010-03-31.
- ^ Arlington Cemetery bio
- ^ Plötzensee Memorial Center